From multiple reports - The Tripoli, which resembles an aircraft carrier but is smaller and operates closer to shore, is departing Japan with an attached Marine expeditionary unit consisting of roughly 5,000 Marines and sailors, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit will take about two weeks to arrive in the Middle East, Fox News chief national sec Jennifer Griffin reported, adding that a smaller contingent of about 2,500 Marines are also part of the repositioning.
“Due to operational security, we do not discuss future or hypothetical movements,” a Pentagon official told The Post.
Good. Kill every last terrorist you can find or they will grow back.
ReplyDeleteShould we start building the memorial now for the thousands of lives that will be thrown away for Israel?
ReplyDeleteArticle could have said, "Toward the French Riviera or Iceland or Acapulco or Ireland or Antarctica." Seems there is some journalistic bias.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that old aphorism about not getting into a land war in asia?
ReplyDeleteWe had 14,000 Marines at Al Jaber Kuwait just prior to the kick-off of IAF1.
ReplyDeleteI've heard that we and our Israeli allies are chatting with Iranian military to convince them to stand down and turn on the vile murderous IRGC and Besegi scum. An MEU on the way juuuust might be a sweetener to the pot to get them to man up and toss the tea into the harbor, to use a metaphor. If not, then put them down, too.
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