Royal Australian Navy – HMAS Manoora lands troops on Guadalcanal’s Red Beach.

• BBC: Peacekeepers arrive in Solomons
• CNN: First troops arrive in Solomons

US Marines – More Marines are landed at the embassy in Liberia.

• Associated Press: Helicopters Bring More Marines to Liberia

US Marines – The use of naval mobile construction battalions (NMCBs) is a needed force multiplier, not an engineer redundancy.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Navy SeaBees: The MAGTF ëStingí The Marine Corps Needs