Third US carrier, 4,000 Marines Augment US Armada Opposite Iran

Debka ^ | June 28,2010 | Staff

[lbryce]

debkafile's military sources report that Washington has posted a third carrier opposite Iran's shores. It is supported by amphibious assault ships and up to 4,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel, bringing the total US strength in these waters to three carriers and 10,000 combat personnel.

The USS Nassau (LHA-4) Amphibious Ready Group 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, tasked with supporting the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet area of operations, is cruising around the Bab al-Mandeb Straits where the Gulf of Aden flows into the Red Sea. Its presence there accounts for Tehran announcing Sunday, June 27 that its "aid ship for Gaza" had been called off, for fear an American military boarding party would intercept the vessel and search it.

This would be permissible under the latest UN sanctions punishing the Islamic Republic for its nuclear program.

The third US carrier group to reach waters around Iran consists of three vessels:
1. The USS Nassau Amphibious Assault ship is not just an enormous landing craft for the 3,000 Marines aboard; its decks carry 6 vertical take-off AV-HB Harrier attack plans; four AH-1W Super Cobra, twelve CH-46 Sea Knight and CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters, as well choppers convertible to fast V-22 Osprey airplanes capable of landing in any conditions.
This vast warship has 1,400 cabinets for sleeping the entire Marine-24th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard.

2. The amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde which carries 800 Marines equipped for instantaneous landing.

3. The amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland which carries 400 Marines and 102 commandos trained for special operations behind enemy lines.

[Recon Dad]

From the sign behind them this was from the Kearsarge. What a crew.

[Candor7]

Maybe a prelude to interfere with Israel.The Obafactor cannot be ignored because we are no longer an ally of Israel’s.

[Quix]

THX. WILL CHECK IT OUT.

[Cvengr]

Maybe Obama is setting them up as bait. Might explain e recent shift in commanders nearby.

[Quix]

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[Candor7]

Like you I do not trust Barry Soetoro one bit. Look at what happened with Clinton and his Somalia fiasco.

[Thunder90]

This is DEBka...

No trust in the source.

[lbryce]

Taking into consideration “USN(Ret)” not merely as your FR ‘user name’ but emphatically as credentials to legitimately know what you’re talking about, I humbly defer to your naval background/experience and stand corrected.

[SunkenCiv]

from Debka. Thanks hennie pennie.

But still, introductions are in order. Old town? Hot time. Hot time? Old town.

[The Comedian]

Iran has only one thing to fear:

Barry's approval rating hitting about 40%

This is typically when Democrat presidents launch wars.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[hinckley buzzard]

I recall when Debka revealed tens of thousands of Red Chinese troops in the Bekaa Valley. Wonder what ever became of them.

[DNME]

I suspect our forces are not preparing to attack.

Instead, I think they are “bait” to lure Ahmanutjob into attacking. Or possibly to keep his head down while Israel launches attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Just speculating.

[Netz]

You think Iran takes Obambi’s muscle-flexing seriously? It is in place to “reassure” the Israelis that America has it’s eye on Iran but to what avail? Would a Nobel Prize winning President launch an attack on Iran? Not going to happen. MAYBE Israel will attack and then the US will hit them AFTER 80,000 missiles hit Tel Aviv...

[Cementjungle]

The fact these Groups are not in the Persian Gulf, but outside in the Arabian Sea, lends credence to the potential for SOMETHING.

4'th of July fleet barbecue.

[MediaMole]

The positioning can also support activity in Afghanistan.

[chilltherats]

Well, my guess is that the Israelis are now expecting a two-prong attack against them instead of just a single-prong attack from Iran.

[Eye of Unk]

The Iranians will be in for a big surprise when the tunnel boring machines appear under them!

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[FDNYRHEROES]

The fact these Groups are not in the Persian Gulf, but outside in the Arabian Sea, lends credence to the potential for SOMETHING.

OMG...To all those stationed in Diego Garcia...buy up all the beer and hoard all the good stuff before "they" arrive...

[xrmusn]

buy up all the beer and hoard all the good stuff before “they” arrive...

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Yes, when the ‘Big Boys’ come a calling, the price of everything goes UP. Those stationed there and the ones lucky enough to be HP there, kind of sit back and let the locals make their big ‘pay days’ and wait for things to get back to normal.
At least that is the way I remember it, guess things haven’t changed that much...
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[wolfcreek]

“This is typically when Democrat presidents launch wars.”

In the most sick kind of way, wars typically spur economies and put the unemployed back to work.

They also make lots of money for the globalist oligarchy.