[Nachum]

Can anyone remember another president doing this?

[Vendome]

LOL

Yea, right.

They are there for support....

[BluH2o]

Can anyone remember another president doing this?

The US Navy 6th Fleet in the Med usually have a Battalion Landing Team (BLT) of Marines on Amphibious warships in the area. For the Marines it's a 6 month deployment ... it's called a Med cruise. Back in the day I had the good fortune to be on two of these deployments. Both cruises that I was on were routine, we made amphibious training landings in places like Turkey, Crete, Corsica, Spain. The main reason we were attached to the 6th Fleet was to be a landing force in readiness to evacuate American nationals, or protect American interests in that part of the world if events warranted it. Marine BLT's over the years have been a force (just over the horizon) off the shores of Cypress, Libya, Lebanon (actual landing).

[jersey117]

What’s he trying to do? Evacuate Israel so his muslim peeps can move in?

[redgolum]

It suggests they have more intel on what is going on than is in the news.

Honestly, I can't see this as a bad thing. Get our folks out, and tell Israel to have fun. We do need to make sure we can protect power after the fact, but perhaps this is one war we shouldn't fight.

Especially since I fear our current POTUS would have us on the wrong side.

[SkyPilot]

Can anyone remember another president doing this?

Yes, they are called NEOs. Noncombatant Evacuation Operations.

I participated in several of these while I was in the military.

They are covered in detail in Joint Publication JP 3-68.

https://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp3-68.pdf

NEOs are complex and touchy operations. They are paid for by the State Department, and DOS has a lot of say in how the operation is actually run. As is typical, however, the State Dept lacks the resources, manpower, security, logistics, lethality, and ability to pull these operations off. The military takes this role, however, the DoD depends upon the State Dept to clear all diplomatic hurdles, to help inform the populace of American or those holding American passports to the information regarding evacuation, and the processing of those holding passports. In some cases, we evacuation people who hold no passports whatsoever - we allow the whole "clan" into the US. This has happened in Lebanon, Haiti, and other cases I can think of.

I think Obama is a terrible President, an immoral man, and corrupt. However, there is nothing unusual with sending amphibious ships to an expanding war zone to prepare to evacuation Americans.

[P-Marlowe]

The only thing I am sure about is that if given the opportunity, Obama would wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

[Hoodat]

If anyone needs evacuating, it will be to evacuate Palestinians [sic] off of Hebrew land.

[cherokee1]

At least one of these three ships was in the Med. when Benghazi lit up. I keep track of our carrier groups on the big map here at the shop. The Marines on those FMF boats always have at least a little fixed wing support not to mention some 200 mph Seahawks. The notion, as I’ve said before, that there was no one available to help Steven’s crew within a half hour or so is pure bullwhacky.

[IbJensen]

No.

The ships are probably there to haul the muslims to the USA.

[RexBeach]

Do what?

[Candor7]

U.S. sends warships near Israel in case evacuation needed>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It’s much worse than we think. Behind the scenes Obama is forcing Israel NOT to invade GAZA and destroy Muslim Brotherhoods Hamas network.Obama is a proponent/member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and as such is treasonous and now acts against US interests in the region my promoting the Sharia / jihadist agenda which caused 9/11 and our war against Islamofascism. In fact Obama is a fascist. So we must begin understanding the Obama strategies as an exercise of fascism.

The headline should read:

U.S. sends warships near Israel to aid Hamas against Gaza invasion by Israel

This is not about evacuation, its about making war against Israel with “peace” as an excuse.

I hope Bibi invades Gaza anyway, forthwith, but it is unlikely, because Obama will get a UN order to intercede as a peace keeping foprce and will make war on Israel. Its that simple.

Our whole world has just changed, and almost nobody gets it.

Bibi also has made a huge mistake. He should have invaded gaza.

[ArmstedFragg]

Some of the steel in USS New York is from the WTC.