According to Axios, the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and the 13th Marine Expediationary Unit have left San Diego Naval Base for CENTCOM area of responsibility.
The ARG consists of an amphibious assault ship, the USS Makin Island, and two amphibious transport docks, the USS Anchorage and USS John P. Murtha.
They will bring about a dozen F-35B Lightning II fighter jets and around 2200 U.S. Marines, as well as infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers.
The U.S. is sending another aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, to the Middle East
The carrier and its strike group left San Diego today and will arrive in the CENTCOM area of operations by mid November. In total, 3 carrier strike groups would be deployed by then.
The U.S. also recently sent two additional Patriot missile batteries to protect key oil and gas facilities in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The deployment is meant to reassure both countries, which fear Iranian retaliation against their energy infrastructure.
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