US sends roughly 9,000 sailors and Marines toward Iran as naval buildup grows

The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group, with more than 7,000 sailors, and an amphibious force carrying some 2,000 Marines, roughly 9,000 people together, left San Diego for the Gulf region, part of a buildup a US official said would leave three aircraft carriers and two amphibious groups near Iran by November. Two other carriers, the USS George H.W. Bush and USS George Washington, are already operating in the Arabian Sea as the war between the United States, Israel and Iran continues.

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