Posted on 10/23/2023 5:49:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
As tensions equate to World War Three levels in the Middle East, over 12,000 US Navy and Marine Corps personnel aboard ten warships are heading towards the Middle East, according to reports.
Over the weekend, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III announced a series of actions to bolster the US military presence in the Middle East.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group has been redirected to the Central Command area of responsibility in addition to the Navy’s most advanced nuclear aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which is currently positioned in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group now joins the USS Gerald R. Ford group, bringing the number of American warships in the region to 10.
There are 4,500 sailors on board the US aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, accompanied by five other ships carrying over 1,600 US troops.
Onboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier is 5,000 service members, with further ships carrying another 1,000 troops.
Last week, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin placed 2,000 forces on standby to “be ready to deploy.”
The forces will now be ready to be deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean within 24 hours, Fox News reported.
The order came just days after a special operations Marine Corps unit participating in exercises departed early “as a result of emerging events.”
Over the weekend, Austin placed an unspecified number of US troops under “prepare to deploy” orders.
Austin said in a statement:
“I have placed an additional number of forces on prepare to deploy orders as part of prudent contingency planning, to increase their readiness and ability to quickly respond as required.”
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Meanwhile, up to six Chinese Warships have been spotted in waters near the Middle East.
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a statement:
“We need to enter under the best possible conditions, and this is what we are doing now, as the next stage of war approaches.”
“From today, we are increasing the strikes and minimizing the danger.”
“We will narrow the risks to our forces over the next stages. This is why we have once again urged residents of Gaza to keep moving south,” he added.
As The Daily Fetched reported:
Many media outlets have taken Hagari’s words as meaning they are preparing for an imminent ground assault.
Meanwhile, 20 large trucks loaded with humanitarian aid passed into Gaza through the Rafah crossing from Egypt.
However, controversy was sparked after a report from The New York Times revealed the aid convoy was not checked by inspectors before entering the strip, meaning weapons or ammo could be hidden in the convoy.
World War Three
Concerns are mounting that Hezbollah could fully enter the conflict, with growing speculation that the Iran-backed and well-armed Shia paramilitary group is ready to attack northern Israel when the ground assault is launched on the Gaza Strip.
US warships and at least one carrier are also in the region as part of “support” operations.
And the MSM blames it on Trump, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
“...over 12,000 US Navy and Marine Corps personnel aboard ten warships are heading towards the Middle East, according to reports...)
How did Slow Joe get around the ‘War Powers’ act?
Umm, why? I get that Biden owes Ukraine and China big time, but why are we intervening here? The Israelis strike me as capable of taking care of themselves.
the aid convoy was not checked by inspectors before entering the strip, meaning weapons or ammo could be hidden in the convoy.
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BINGO
HEY !!! Joe !!!
Are you going to stop the aid to the Hamas ???
Why not save lives, time and land “over there”, unload our equipment and ammo along with DEI literature, and come on home? Same result - the bad dorks get our stuff and we lose as usual.
Joe was 90 days before Congress has to vote on this...
However joe hasnt announced we are at war...
All we are doing right now is fulfilling a foreign policy we have with an ally ...
Notice the pattern here? You know the one. Where history shows that most wars were started under Democrat-run administrations. Well, it’s happening yet again.
The problem is... America’s enemy without clearly sees that America is, once again, being run by weak “leaders”...ie America’s enemy within. So the perfect time to start some ‘stuff’ is during that period of weakness. Thus, the pattern. Too bad most Americans are, apparently, incapable of comprehending this historic and age-old “pattern”. If they were, they would never vote Democrat.
So the NYT reports these trucks and the aid packages they’re carrying weren’t inspected. One would surmise that the good guys have already seeded the trucks and the packages with RFID locator devices.
OK... it’s 90 days from what date? How is that calculated?
From the day a POTUS announces we are at war...
But Joe wont commit war against his buddies in Iran...
Mean Tweets/World Peace 2024.
Already did.......................
How many of those 12,000 do you think know the first thing about close order combat, as opposed to simply fighting their own ship, and that’s it?
Ukraine just wasn’t war enough to satisfy deep state
Excellent reporting! s/ Using “sailors” and “troops” interchangeably results in an article that really tells you not very much, other than some ships are going to the Middle East. I don’t trust the article to even get the number of ships right.
Then SOMEBODY has got to get their fingerprints on this, one way or another
re: 14
They all probably know how to sync their game controller.
That’s right...two aircraft carriers’ crew are nearly 10,000 plus the 1600 crew of the other ships being deployed for nearly 2000, so that’s the 12,000.
Zero ground forces, yet.
Great. Southern border wide open for jihadis et al. to waltz in and Bidumb sends troop to the Middle East. How about securing our own safety for once, you nitwit?
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