Some 200 of these have gone ashore to assist the Nigerians, and America has made a great show of its might this month with fighter planes swooping over Monrovia.
The journey takes them, for instance, to Taganak, one of the Turtle Islands, where the creatures (oblivious to such niceties as national boundaries) heave themselves ashore to lay their eggs.
To start with, nearly all the sailing was done while we slept, giving us maximum time ashore to explore the likes of the 10, 023ft Haleakala, a one-time monster of a volcano but now a stunning, sterile ruin.
They had been looking for oil and lacked the technology back then to extract gas from waters more than 3000 feet deep, or pipe it ashore for conversion to LNG.
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Almost everyone leaps at the chance to go ashore at our first stop, King George Island, to climb a windswept 1, 000-foot incline whose hard crust of snow cracks on contact, sinking you to your knees every other step.
There was a brief thaw in relations when the Cold War ended, because with the Red Navy gone the U.S. Navy needed to highlight its relevance to fighting ashore, but the more common pattern is for the Navy to constantly question the requirement for Marine assets like vertical-takeoff jets and maritime prepositioning ships (which store warfighting supplies in likely areas of conflict).
As if to dismiss that as too simple a challenge, according to press reports of the day, he then flew under at least three other, much lower, bridges - London Bridge, Blackfriars and Waterloo - before stepping ashore at Westminster to be greeted by a cheering crowd who had gathered to meet a dignitary expected by boat from Paris.
Lisa Argilla, a vet at Wellington Zoo, said the penguin had possibly struggled to find enough food or had had problems hunting and had come ashore as he needed to go through his seasonal moulting.
But to safely carry infantry ashore and then penetrate inland despite the best efforts of enemies to keep them out, the Marine Corps needs an armored vehicle that can swim.
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Seven cows washed ashore drowned after attempting to cross the channel from Cefn Sidan to the harbour.
The sound is said to have frightened 18th-century British sailors so much that they refused to go ashore.
The Marines want to get ashore fast, and then seize control through carefully synchronized air and ground operations.
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After three decades of life at sea, it was time for Indonesian captain Ratmoko to go ashore in 1991.
Reaching the coast, Verrazzano dispatched one of his men to swim ashore and greet some people gathered on the dunes.
If the oil starts to come ashore on the beaches of the four states under threat it could get worse for the company.
Between performances, the ship called in at Grand Cayman and Ocho Rios in Jamaica, giving the fans and stars a chance to explore ashore.
CNN's Jeff Flock reported from the landing zone at Litohoro that the full force was expected take up to eight hours to come ashore.
Police said Johnny Mitchell Jr, 54, had died trying to swim ashore after helping secure a loose boat in Blind Bay, 25km from Halifax.
Fresh, green grass has begun growing again in some of the hardest-hit marshes of southern Louisiana, but oil continues to wash ashore in places.
Amazingly enough, if the government had intervened to halt the use of dispersants as some environmentalists demanded, this positive development might have been delayed, allowing additional oil to come ashore and further endanger the Gulf ecosystem.
We had a situation over the weekend where we had boom in place back behind Dauphin Island, Alabama, and the sea state actually defeated the boom and we had some oil come ashore there and had to deal with that.
On the current voyage the Adonia had to spend an extra day in Barbados to await delayed supplies and it missed one scheduled call in Brazil because of a local police strike which might have made it risky for passengers to go ashore.
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans police lined up "like at a firing range" and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN.
So I think we need to understand where it comes ashore in a marshland, there is a depth component to this and the effect could be far greater than that.
The Tarawa calamity was already a Pacific legend: how naval intelligence, relying on obsolete charts, had miscalculated the tides so flagrantly that the Marine troops in their landing vessels were forced to disembark on coral reefs and then wade ashore for hundreds of yards, exposed to killing fire from Japanese machine guns.
Security Council that calls for countries to "take all necessary measures ashore in Somalia, including in its airspace, " to counter piracy.
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"Our task is to contain the oil, ultimately to eliminate the leaking well and, most importantly, to clean up the oil, defend the shoreline and restore the shoreline where the oil comes ashore, so we return it to the original state, " he said.
Birds started to be washed ashore in Dorset on 31 January when 100 were rescued and 15 were confirmed dead.
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