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As far as I know Australia does not have Marines so you have to wonder where the troops to fill two LHDs will come from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Ba...alian_Regiment, they are the specialist unit, equivilent to a marine raider force. Australia has quietly upgrading its a amphibious forces, they learnt the hard way during timor about how poor they were. Only fortuitous leasing of the HMAS Jervis Bay AKA Dili Express 2 years previous prevented it being a compete cluster ...............
The battalion is planned to generally deploy as the main element of the Australian Amphibious Force's Joint Pre-Landing Force (JPLF).
[34][37] It is planned that the 2 RAR elements generally assigned to the Pre-Landing Force (PLF) will be a command and control node, elements from the Reconnaissance and Sniper and Small Boat Platoons, two infantry platoons, a joint fires team and a signals detachment.
or watch this vid goto 6minutes 50