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• Air refueling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Amphibious warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-aircraft artillery [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Attack cargo ship [r]: A WWII-era U.S. Navy ship designed specifically to carry heavy equipment, supplies and troops in support of amphibious assaults, and to provide naval gunfire support during those assaults. ^[e]
• Automatic Identification System [r]: A system, aboard ships and boats, that combines marine radio transmitters and receivers, Global Navigation Satellite System receivers, and computer control into a self-organizing, mobile network in which vessels are inform nearby traffic, potential collision hazards, and navigational information ^[e]
• Buoyancy [r]: The upward force exerted on an object that is partially or completely immersed in a fluid having a density that is higher than the density of the object. ^[e]
• Cargo cult [r]: A group of social movements that began in Melanesia in the late nineteenth century which believe that manufactured goods, including canned goods, airplanes, and automobiles, were created by spirits or ancestors of Melanesian people. ^[e]
• Christening [r]: Observances surrounding the welcoming of children into the Christian faith. ^[e]
• Combat loading [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Commercial fishing [r]: The harvesting of edible marine life on a commercial basis, usually using purpose-built vessels and equipment ^[e]
• Digital selective calling [r]: A method to address specific marine radios or groups of vessels, and to send a distress signal, including the vessel's location if the radio is connected to a GPS receiver ^[e]
• Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon [r]: Intended for search and rescue of ships and boats, this is a beacon that will float free of a sinking vessel, and broadcast a position report, preferably with GPS, to a worldwide cluster of monitoring satellites. ^[e]
• Global Maritime Distress and Safety System [r]: Mandated by the Safety of Life at Sea convention of the International Maritime Organization system of digital radio and other systems for ships to receive alerts and signal search and rescue organizations when they are in distress. ^[e]
• International Maritime Organization [r]: The United Nations agency responsible for avoiding pollution from ships, and implementing the Safety of Life at Sea convention ^[e]
• International law [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Landing craft [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Littoral (military) [r]: In a military context, waterways where relatively light shore-based weapons are potential threats, and in water shallow enough to change the "blue ocean" techniques for submarine warfare. ^[e]
• Marine Air-Ground Task Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Marine navigation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Navy [r]: A military force organized primarily for missions on, under, or above bodies of water ^[e]
• Prepositioning ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Safety of Life at Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Strait of Malacca [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Marine Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Transportation Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Warship [r]: Add brief definition or description