050880 Transportation training exercise and demonstration at Fort Eustis, Va.: A rough terrain container handler (RTCH) places an intermodal container on an LCM landing craft. (The LCMs are also known as "Mike boats.")

Note that to put the container on the landing craft, the RTCH has to place it longitudinally, a practice normally not followed in civilian operations, where containers are always handled perpendicular to the container handler.

The RTCH itself fits onto one of these landing craft and could be delivered to a staging area on a beach this way.

These small landing craft can function as lighters, vessels that shuttle cargo to and from larger ships that have to anchor off shore in deeper waters. They can also transport cargo up rivers and other inland waterways.

To see a photo of the same container being unloaded from the landing craft at a different location, click here.

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