"is currently deployed to the Middle East to promote regional security and stability,"
"We have a massive fleet heading in that direction, and maybe we won't have to use it,"
"look like peanuts"
"completely false."
An aircraft carrier strike group, accompanied by three destroyers, is operating in the Indian Ocean to promote regional security and stability and will add thousands of service members to the region. The deployment places the carrier group away from the Arabian Sea bordering Iran. The region had lacked a U.S. carrier since the USS Gerald R. Ford was ordered to the Caribbean in October. The carrier carries F-35 and F/A-18 squadrons and the destroyers carry hundreds of missiles, potentially including Tomahawk cruise missiles. U.S. leaders signaled readiness for action amid threats over Iran's crackdown on protests, disputed casualty counts, and contested claims about halted executions.
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