those 9,000 plus u.s. troops and the two destroyers and the two mine sweepers and the amphibious ships full of marines and the guided missile cruiser and the aircraft carrier, they re there to protect the free flow of commerce and navigation. nothing having i don t know what you re talking about with the iran stuff i don t know. navigation and commerce. the defense department declined to speculate today on what would happen if during the course of assuring the free flow of navigation and commerce u.s. personnel ended up intercepting iranian weapons on board the iranian ships steaming for them. would u.s. personnel on board any of the nine u.s. warships would they board the iranian vessels if they thought they were iranian weapons on board and they wanted to stop the airplane began iranian weapons from getting to yemen. would u.s. troops board the ships? what if it starts a shooting war
contingent of u.s. military power being dispatched to the body of water surrounding yemen. in that part of the world, there are currently two u.s. mine sweepers, three amphibious ships with more than 2,000 u.s. marines on them two destroyers and now a guided missile cruiser is being added to the fleet as well as the aircraft carrier, the uss theodore roosevelt. more than 9,000 american military personnel stacked up off the coast of yemen. why? according to lots of unnamed sources and lots of media reports, all of those ships and the huge number of american personnel are there because iran. because iran may be planning to ship weapons into yemen to the rebels in yemen that iran is supporting. the u.s. and saudi arabia don t want the iranian weapons shipments to go through. that s what we know unofficially. that s how they explain unofficially why there has been
a u.s. navy super carrier. until last week it was deployed in the persian gulf in support of the military operation against isis. it s heading back to the united states. it was to be relieved by this guy, the uss theodore roosevelt which was deployed to join the fight against isis but as of this week it is being rerouted, pulled out of that fight, effectively, instead taking the 6,000 sailors and the 60 something war planes and heading toward yemen. we talked about this on the show last night. there it is right now a huge contingent of u.s. military power being dispatched to the body of water surrounding yemen. in that part of the world, there are currently two u.s. mine sweepers, three amphibious ships with more than 2,000 u.s. marines on them, two destroyers, and now a guided missile cruiser is being added to the fleet as well as the aircraft carrier,
there it is right now a huge contingent of u.s. military power being dispatched to the body of water surrounding yemen. in that part of the world, there are currently two u.s. mine sweepers, three amphibious ships with more than 2,000 u.s. marines on them, two destroyers, and now a guided missile cruiser is being added to the fleet as well as the aircraft carrier, the uss theodore roosevelt. nine vessels and more than 9,000 american military personnel stacked up off the coast of yemen. why are they all there 124 according to lots of unnamed sources and lots of media reports, all of those ships and the huge number of american personnel are there because iran. because iran may be planning to ship weapons into yemen to the rebels in yemen that iran is supporting. the u.s. and saudi arabia don t want the iranian weapons shipments to go through. that s what we know unofficially. that s how they explain
international war on and around yemen of which the u.s. is now a part. as those eight or nine iranian ships steam, what they will find is a crowded neighborhood. the saudis have ships in the gulf of aden. egypt has ships there off the coast to essentially impose a blockade to prevent weapons from being brought in to help the side that they are fighting. the u.s. is also participating in that blockade. the u.s. already has seven navy vessels in the gulf of aden right now. two destroyers the uss forrest sherman and the winston churchill. two mine sweepers three amphibious ships, collectively carrying about 2200 u.s. marines. if you add up the navy personnel