X @Nick Szabo

RT Gandalv (@Microinteracti1)🚨🚨🇺🇸 Reports say USS Arlington is loading nonstop in Norfolk, with armed security nearby.Here is what that actually means.Arlington is an amphibious transport dock, LPD-24, San Antonio class. Think of it as a floating logistics hub for a Marine landing force. It can embark hundreds of Marines plus vehicles, ammunition, and supplies, then push them ashore using landing craft from its well deck and helicopters or tilt rotor aircraft from its flight deck.It is a ship you load when ...