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The Marines are formulating a new plan for storming a beach, something they haven’t done in six decades. After more than a decade of desert warfare, the Marines are trying to get back to basics. They spend more time training with their traditional partner, the US Navy. Each year since 2010, the Marines have conducted Dawn Blitz a major West Coast exercise centered in the waters around Camp Pendleton. The most recent exercise wrapped up in October. Called Dawn Blitz, it started as a way to prepare Marines to deploy, but it has grown into a laboratory to test new concepts and equipment. For the first time during this year’s exercise, the USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship, carried the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Marines also test-fired a new rocket system both on land and — for the first time — from the deck of a ship. The rocket system is part of new technology the Marines hope will revive the old idea of amphibious assaults in the coming years. The Marines haven’t actually
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