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US to deploy 3,000 paratroopers to Middle East within hours
The Express ^ | 03/25/26 | Staff

Posted on 03/24/2026 5:57:38 PM PDT by doc maverick

“The U.S. is expected to deploy 3,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East. The Fort Bragg-based brigade can be deployed anywhere in the world within 24 hours and serves as the Army's emergency response force. A possible ground operation in Kharg Island, a small five-mile landmass that handles 90% of Iran's oil exports could result from the deployment. Sending the division to the region could be the first step to such operations. However, Washington has yet to officially confirm the deployment. It comes after Trump's strange reaction after discovering Iran's new Supreme Leader's sexuality.“

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They left this AM and it takes them 18 hours to fly there, so they should be there in about 6 hours. Maybe they’re going to land paratroopers on Kharg island tonight.
1 posted on 03/24/2026 5:57:38 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: doc maverick

And we’re off....


2 posted on 03/24/2026 6:01:14 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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"Trump's strange reaction after discovering Iran's new Supreme Leader's sexuality."

Sequence does not equal consequence. The writer has not successfully established a causal relationship.

3 posted on 03/24/2026 6:01:58 PM PDT by rx
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To: doc maverick

UK based media group including some low level gossip crap.


4 posted on 03/24/2026 6:03:59 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: doc maverick

And if the Iranians have nuke, we will learn of it ten minutes later.


5 posted on 03/24/2026 6:06:00 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DAC21

So you don’t think the paratroopers are way?


6 posted on 03/24/2026 6:06:07 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: rx

Go to the link in the page……it tells the story, but how they inserted that in the paratrooper story was kind of weird….LOL!


7 posted on 03/24/2026 6:08:46 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Nothing says “We’ve already won this war” like the deployment of the premier Airborne light infantry units to the theater of operations./s


8 posted on 03/24/2026 6:09:17 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

I think we will be using Army personal, along with others, to help clean out the enriched Uranium.


9 posted on 03/24/2026 6:12:58 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: doc maverick

British media....

I’ll believe this when I see it.


10 posted on 03/24/2026 6:15:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

God be with them. And us.


11 posted on 03/24/2026 6:16:13 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

They are going to be on the lead float.


12 posted on 03/24/2026 6:17:33 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: doc maverick

Let’s hope it’s smoothly run.
In Woody Allen’s Bananas the orders got mixed up and Jewish National Fund Orthodox paratroopers were sent soliciting funds. funny scene.


13 posted on 03/24/2026 6:20:41 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Parley Baer

That’s what I think too. We have to remove the uranium unless they can deplete it onsite.


14 posted on 03/24/2026 6:20:42 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Nearly 40% of China’s oil imports come from Iran.
If Trump takes Kharg island there will be zero oil from Iran to China.
That alone would change the world-order to a level never seen since WWII.
A wonderful smart move by Trump.


15 posted on 03/24/2026 6:28:04 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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Seems unlikely to use 82nd with a Marine aircraft carrier nearly on station


16 posted on 03/24/2026 6:29:14 PM PDT by Zathras
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John has a long mustache...

(and I’ll believe the alleged total lack of operational security when I see it)


17 posted on 03/24/2026 6:30:11 PM PDT by BB62
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Kharg Island would be an interesting choice.

Iran cannot shoot rockets or artillery at the 82nd without destroying Iran's primary source of income and energy!

18 posted on 03/24/2026 6:38:11 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: doc maverick

MSN repeated it:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/us-to-deploy-3-000-paratroopers-to-middle-east-within-hours/ar-AA1Zk3Su


19 posted on 03/24/2026 6:39:19 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Eh, we’ll see. If nothing else it will be a good exercise for the military and sends a message that we can put boots on the ground anytime we want to.

I suspect that the SEALS are already nosing about.


20 posted on 03/24/2026 6:42:35 PM PDT by technically right
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