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Interesting.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt left San Diego on Sunday, followed Monday by the USS Macon Island and Phibius Ready Group carrying the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

together adding about 10,000 more sailors and marines.

They're expected to arrive by late November.

We are 20 days out from the Israeli elections of 27 October, fast approaching.

as the USS Theodore Roosevelt Aircraft Carrier Strike Group and the USS Macon Island Marine Corps Amphibious Response Group Carrier and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit are en route through the Pacific to the CENTCOM area of operations.

re um the redisposition of the b-1 lancers from the uk uh was to re-station them outside of the effective zone of which iran can reach with their advanced hypersonic long-range precision munitions and we do know that iran is working on and perhaps has already developed munitions that can even reach further than that into the 5,000-kilometer range.

So if you look at from firing from Iran or maybe even from ballistic carriers or ballistic warships in the Caspian Sea, which Iran does maintain and possess, they can easily range the United Kingdom.

But in looking at the potential for escalation, the great potential for escalation soon, I agree with you that it would be likely before the three November midterm U.S. elections, likely closer to the 27 October Israeli elections.

The USS, so as we know right now in the region, we have the USS George Washington, we have the USS Bush, we have the USS Boxter.

With the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Macon Island en route, they will arrive on or about the 24th, 25th of October.

And though we have heard that those vessels are there to relieve or replace the USS Washington and the USS Boxer, it's very possible that those carriers can then be brought in to add to a surge, if you will, of forces in the region temporarily.

I would also keep in mind this strategy the Trump administration has allegedly embraced.

Don't forget, they are surging in additional forces vis-a-vis the USS Teddy Roosevelt, the USS Macon Island.

I know the USS George H.W. Bush is on R&R in Thailand, but I suspect it will come back into the CENTCOM AOR in the next couple of weeks.

What about the BBR or the FRR? Will the Theodore do a BBR as well? Because I'm not sure about the FFR that it did yesterday.

On the American naval side, the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush docked in Phuket, Thailand, on Sunday, giving roughly 4,800 sailors a break after six months supporting Operation Epic Fury and the blockade, according to Reuters.

Meanwhile, a United States official confirmed last week that the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the amphibious group led by USS Macon Island were headed to the Middle East carrying about 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines who could arrive by the end of October.

Axios also reported, citing two American officials and a regional source, that the United States sent two additional Patriot missile batteries to Saudi Arabia and Qatar to help protect oil and gas facilities.

CBS reported that Washington had dialed back military operations in recent weeks in favor of economic pressure, and no new American strikes on Iranian territory turned up in the coverage reviewed.

Marine Expeditionary.

Yes, the MEU, led by the USS Macon Island.

Yes.

That's going to be joining at the end of November the USS George Washington and the USS George H.W. Bush, two other carriers, as well as another amphib, the USS Boxer.