Marine leaders have been pushing since for the first light amphibious warship to be procured by 2023. But in the service’s recent combined budget request with the Navy, the Corps isn’t expecting to get the ship for at least another two years. And the Corps only is likely to get four of them in inventory by 2027 if the current plan holds. The light amphibious warship is the Corps’ answer to moving a lot of Marines in small teams from deep water to the close-to-shore littoral zones and even