USS Boxer and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit deploy to Middle East

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Source: MilitaryTimes

Mar 20, 2026, 11:22 AM


The United States military is deploying thousands of additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday.

The deployments of the USS Boxer, along with its 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and accompanying warship, comes as Reuters reported that President Donald Trump’s administration was considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East.

Trump told reporters on Thursday that he was not putting troops “anywhere,” but that if was going to, he would not tell journalists.

The sources, who were speaking on the condition of anonymity, did not say what the role of the additional troops would be. But one of the officials said the troops were departing the West Coast of the United States about 3 weeks ahead of schedule.


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[Crowman2009]

1. Sending a battalion size Marine Corps unit w/support isn't going to work.

If anything this sounds like a Guadalcanal-style trap will be waiting for them since the Orange assclown and Kegsbreath won't stop bragging about it on social media and to Putin.

[sarisataka]

2. We won at Guadalcanal nt

[Crowman2009]

4. Not in the first week.

The surface fleet had to withdraw after the battle of Savo island, then the Marines were isolated temporarily.

[sarisataka]

9. It took much longer than a week to win

But it was no trap, the Japanese were completely unprepared for the landing. Their major base at Rabaul gave them the forces to push the US fleet back at first but they could not eradicate the Marines on the island.

[Ponietz]

6. More like Corregidor

[Crowman2009]

8. Thanks! I almost forgot that there was a regiment of Marines from that event.

In the month prior to Pearl Harbor they had to withdraw from Shanghai.

[ananda]

3. ROFL. Didn't he already broadcast loudly that he was ...

going after Kharg Island.

[BaronChocula]

5. In a normal world

people would be complaining about President Harris wearing Chuck Taylors in the Oval Office.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Just because you can kill people doesn't mean you should kill people.