The Pentagon is deploying a Marine Expeditionary Unit – up to 2,500 soldiers – to the Middle East. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved the request from the U.S. Central Command after Iran ramped up attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Marines are believed to be coming from the Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.
This marks a MAJOR escalation that just about everyone in the administration was denying: after weeks of claiming the Iran war would stay an air campaign, the administration is now moving significant ground forces into position amid Iran’s blockade and strikes on tankers and cargo ships. Get The Full, Details. read
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