Pentagon Deploying a 2nd Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East
In the past week, U.S. officials have confirmed two separate amphibious ready groups have been dispatched to the region amid ongoing fighting with Iran.An additional force of U.S. warships and an attached Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) is set to deploy to the Middle East amid ongoing combat operations against Iran, The Epoch Times has learned.
The USS Boxer amphibious ready group (ARG) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), currently based out of San Diego, California, are set to sail across the Indo-Pacific region to reach the waters of the Middle East, according to a U.S. military source familiar with the matter.
A combined ARG and MEU can consist of around 5,000 sailors and Marines. These additional troops would join around 50,000 U.S. troops already deployed to the Middle East as joint U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran continue.
Thus far, no U.S. ground troops have entered combat with Iranian forces.
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This is just an excursion. It is not a war.
What happened to Trump?
During the 2016 Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump openly criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq—calling out former President George W. Bush for launching the war based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction.
Trump argued the war destabilized the Middle East and created long-lasting chaos across the region, marking one of the rare moments in a Republican primary where a candidate publicly challenged the Iraq War narrative. Check out the video, lol
@5:54...why the "lol?" There were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when we invaded then
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