 We learned a great many lessons from these battles in World War II in some cases the hard way and one of the things we did was We were able to develop additional landing craft and tactics such as the LCU landing craft utility And how we were able to use them for example at Incheon in the Korean War during the Vietnam War We developed the Brownwater Navy as a lot of veterans refer to it in the May Kong and its tributaries We learned about additional tactics. We learned how to tighten up our formations. We learned to gain the element of surprise We learned to develop enable gunfire support to a fine art We eventually developed vertical enveloping when we introduced helicopters and that enabled us to simultaneously land and flank the enemy on both sides of the beaches at all which was Tremendous strategic and tactical flexibility. We've come a long way since World War II We no longer Line up, you know a hundred ships and send them Towards a beach that's full of enemy defenses You know that that was very costly in World War II It was the best that they could do at the time with the technology and the Capabilities that they had so they didn't have much of a choice but nowadays we We want to go where the enemy's not so we want to gain access Without going into the teeth of the enemy so we have those capabilities with our our Our aircraft to be able to fly in especially the the MV-22 Gives us a lot longer range to be able to to insert Marines and troops shore from the from the sea we also Have a our elk axe our hovercraft landing craft capability that That goes a lot faster than the landing craft they had in World War II so a lot longer range with that we can keep our ships Basically over the horizon where they're they're protected somewhat from the threat more than more than they were in the World War II era we still have a Forcible entry capability so with with our amphibious ships partnered with the carrier strike group and with with all the other Abilities that we have we're able to gain access into Countries where we need to gain access to We're able to put Marines ashore either with our aircraft or our Landing craft and also with their their armored vehicles the AAVs that they have We We are the legitimate backbone of all amphibious operation You have certain platforms that are faster than us, but they can only hit in certain areas Okay, certain beaches are able to scale like I said, we're Just like the Higginboats. We're effective anywhere As long as there is a coastline we should we can get up on it and do what we have to do We can handle anything as large as three in one Abram tanks on board And taking that to a beaching offloading. We've evolved over the years With a lot of lessons learned from my brother and sister in that cell before us and How to make sure we do this thing, you know more precisely Safely and with better technology and that's the key thing I think the technology has allowed us to be more precise And in acquiring the target and then putting things in place pretty much exactly where it's supposed to be The LCAC gives the operational commanders the ability to do an over-the-horizon assault We can operate 200 nautical miles from the host ship that allows us a lot of leeway on the beach front We can carry a 60 ton payload at the speeds up to 50 knots. We open up the world Shoreline traditional LCU could hit about 15 to 17 percent of the shoreline throughout the world We hit about 70 percent because we don't have to worry about things like reefs and shallow water depth So it opens up the beach our training we train around our h-hour the time that we're going to hit the beach And the idea is that the beach is clear when we hit it. We bring the Marines ashore quickly because we're fast We bring them they stand up the force and They go in and fight the war, but it's all around that same time principle where the bombardments completed We're going in as the last shells are hitting as soon as that h-hour goes We cross the beach drop the ramps let the Marines go and carry on the battle plan Do we have the capability to? To do a forcible entry opposed we do But you know with possibly significant Casualties and problems that go with that So we want to go with enemies not gain access And then use our maneuver warfare Capability to to get around the enemy and attack those critical vulnerabilities vice a head-to-head You know assault the beach frontal assault on the beach world war two type thing