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These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...
The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are going to the southern Caribbean in a show of ...
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Why Nicolas Maduro Should Fear the USS Iwo Jima

In a potential war with either Nicolas Maduro’s military and/or Venezuela’s massive, powerful drug cartels, the USS Iwo Jima ...
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US Navy Live Firing Exercise

Sailors, assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), fire the Mark 38 weapon system and M240 rifles during a live-fire exercise. Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and ...
Bs. They even get mistaken for mini supercarriers. But the Navy’s amphibious assault ships—like the $3.4 billion America-class LHAs—aren’t aircraft carriers. Not really. Their true mission is far more ...
The U.S. has added a powerful amphibious squadron to a previously revealed deployment of three Navy destroyers nearing Venezuela as part of a major counternarcotics operation. Two officials familiar ...
The Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarines were designed to thwart Soviet submarines. The United States has ...
President Trump is employing gunboat diplomacy and increased military presence in the Southern Caribbean to pressure ...
The 11 men killed in a lethal US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug carrying vessel earlier this week reportedly ...
A San Diego federal jury on Wednesday convicted a Chinese-born U.S. Navy sailor of espionage and other charges related to his ...
Unconfirmed reports to other media outlets have stated that the strike was conducted by a drone or helicopter, but defense ...
The US naval force sent to the southern Caribbean will reinforce the pressure on drug cartels and a belligerent Venezuelan regime that benefits from them.