Navy commissions new amphibious assault ship for “leaner and meaner” Marine Corp

The Navy commissioned its newest amphibious assault ship on Wednesday, July 15, one designed to better deploy Marines and their aircraft from the ocean.
While the USS Tripoli, still at its shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., was celebrated, fire-fighting crews at the Naval Base San Diego continued to work to extinguish a blaze on the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, which was undergoing a conversion to also make it better suited to for transporting the Marine’s F-35 Lighting II fig