I know very little about VTOL aircraft and this is presented in the spirit of genuine enquiry, not irony.
OK, it's a ship, but the USMC should be used to that. Other than the fact that it is a ship and it may be moving (and presumably is during flight operations to minimise rolling around), is there anything particularly special about landing on one particular piece of floating real-estate, as opposed to another?
Why is this clever? I would have presumed that this sort of thing would be done as a matter of course, whenever the need to do so arose.
I appreciate that there may be a difference between "what we are allowed to do" and "what is possible to do" and this may be one of those instances.
Phil