Confronted with moving a 360-student high school to a new campus during the holiday break, retired Marine Corps Col. Bill Davis said he likened the monumental task as military logisticians do in moving scores of troops and tons of their gear from ships to shore.
"Marines are expeditionary by nature," said Davis, commandant of the New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy in Algiers. "So when the building was ready, we moved the school. It's not very different from an amphibious landing plan.