Marines Commandant General David Berger testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that military branch needed more amphibious shipsBerger said the fleet was at 35 percent capacity of what was required for the US to maintain both a military and humanitarian presence in the Pacific regionHe said two decades of land-based conflicts had shifted the Marines' focus from sea-based combat, and that the branch should begin returning to those roots The Marines' highest-ranking general warned that US forces are at their lowest levels of preparedness in recent history, and are critically lacking the number of amphibious troop ships and landing craft...