 Since its inception in 1983, the LCAC was pretty much invented to work hand-in-hand with the Marine Corps and be the premier ship-to-shore connector for the Marine Corps personnel and their equipment. The benefits of an LCAC is the ability to have a marine step foot on a dry LCAC in the well deck, transit over the water and step off with their boots dry onto a beach to move forward with whatever their objective is inland. The other benefit is speed. The LCAC is rated to go a top speed of 50 knots and each knot equates to 1.2 statute miles per hour. So it goes very quickly and it's one of the things that benefits transport over other service connectors from ship to shore.