Pentagon Moves More Marines, Warships to Middle East

Friday, March 13, 2026

The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit and more warships to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request from Centcom for an element of an amphibious ready group and attached Marine expeditionary unit, typically consisting of several warships and 5,000 Marines and sailors, according to three U.S. officials.

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 04:38 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

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To secure the Iranian coast near the Strait and get traffic moving? We'll know in a few weeks ...

#1 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-13 04:40 PM

What a really bad idea?! That is a sure ticket to mass casualties

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-13 04:44 PM

The size of the MEU precludes a mainland "D-Day" offensive against the Iranian people.

The small, but important islands, off Iran's coast is my guess for the MEU: Map

The Marines on drudge.com are the ones who can discuss this better.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-13 04:51 PM

Competent commanders would have done this before they started a war.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-13 04:55 PM

*** House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Operation Epstein Fury: "Mission Is Virtually Accomplished'

FTA:

"Good-for-nothing frontispiece for America's oligarchs House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) bleated that the incompetent Trumpf junta's illegal war on the Iranian people on behalf of Israel will "come to a close soon" following the pedophilic president's blither-blather speech this week at the House Republican Conference's policy retreat in Doral, Florida, where these scoundrels enjoyed fine wine, dining, and entertainment while everyday Americans struggled to make ends meet with rising fuel and food prices."

Source: Tell That to the Marines Enroute to Iran

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-13 05:02 PM

There was a lot of bitching from MAGA as to how Biden ended American ground wars in the Middle East.

Any critique of Trump as he starts a new one?

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-14 08:56 AM

What do we think is going to be the response when that unit is nearly wiped out in some stupid, half a&&ed amateur move by Trump and Hegseth that our spineless military leadership is going to green light despite "reservations" or some other mealymouthed, half a&&ed disagreement?

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-14 09:57 PM

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