Third US carrier, 4,000 Marines augment US armada opposite Iran
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
June 28, 2010, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
USS Nassau: More US naval-air-marine muscle off IranUSS拿騷號：更多的美國海 - 空 - 海軍陸戰打手在伊朗外
DEBKAfile's military sources report that Washington has posted a third carrier opposite Iran's shores. It is supported by amphibious assault ships and up to 4,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel, bringing the total US strength in these waters to three carriers and 10,000 combat personnel.
DEBKAfile的軍方消息來源報告，華盛頓已佈置第三艘航母在伊朗的海岸對面。它是由兩棲攻擊艦支持和高達 4,000名海軍和海軍陸戰隊人員，帶領在這些水域的美國總實力達三架航母和10,000作戰人員。
The USS Nassau (LHA-4) Amphibious Ready Group 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, tasked with supporting the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet area of operations, is cruising around the Bab al-Mandeb Straits where the Gulf of Aden flows into the Red Sea. Its presence there accounts for Tehran announcing Sunday, June 27 that its "aid ship for Gaza" had been called off, for fear an American military boarding party would intercept the vessel and search it. This would be permissible under the latest UN sanctions punishing the Islamic Republic for its nuclear program.
拿騷號（LHA的- 4）兩棲準備組第24海軍陸戰隊遠征部隊，負責支持巴林總部的第五艦隊作戰區域，在巡航圍繞曼德- Mandeb海峽，在那裡亞丁海灣流入紅海。它在那裡的存在說明德黑蘭6月27日週日宣布取消其“援助加沙船”，因為擔心美國的船上軍事黨將攔截和搜查船隻。這將是允許的，根據最新的聯合國懲罰伊朗伊斯蘭共和國的核計劃的制裁。
The third US carrier group to reach waters around Iran consists of three vessels:
1. The USS Nassau Amphibious Assault ship is not just an enormous landing craft for the 3,000 Marines aboard; its decks carry 6 vertical take-off AV-HB Harrier attack plans; four AH-1W Super Cobra, twelve CH-46 Sea Knight and CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters, as well choppers convertible to fast V-22 Osprey airplanes capable of landing in any conditions.
This vast warship has 1,400 cabinets for sleeping the entire Marine-24th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard.
2. The amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde which carries 800 Marines equipped for instantaneous landing.
3. The amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland which carries 400 Marines and 102 commandos trained for special operations behind enemy lines.
debkafile adds: The USS Ashland was the target of an al Qaeda Katyusha rocket attack in 2005 when it was docked in Jordan's Aqaba port next door to the Israeli port of Eilat. One of the rockets exploded in Eilat airport. The ship exited harbor in time to escape harm.
These new arrivals are a massive injection of naval, air and marine muscle to the strength Washington has deployed in the Persian Gulf-Red Sea-Indian Ocean arena in recent months. The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group consisting of twelve warships is cruising in the Arabian Sea opposite Chah Bahar, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards biggest naval base not far from the Iranian-Pakistan border. It is there that most of Iran's special commando units are housed.
Also posted in the Arabian Sea, further to the west, is the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Strike Group.
http://www.debka.com/article/8879/
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