**Breaking News**

 The United States Military has Deployed the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, carrying Approximately 2,200 Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, toward the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran. 

**The three-ship group —>**

• USS Makin Island
• USS Anchorage  
• USS John P. Murtha 
 
Departed San Diego on September 28. 

The deployment comes Alongside the Movement of the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and Additional US Forces toward the Region.