Captain Jim Fennell

We have 12 F-35s in Saudi Arabia.

Those are just the strike aircraft.

And there's a whole load of tankers, airborne early warning and command and control aircraft.

ISR and unmanned manned vehicles.

And in the naval arena, like I said, two carrier strike groups that comprise, you know, with what's afloat and in the theaters over probably a thousand T-LAMs that are now in the region that are gonna be able to be brought to bear if the president decides to do so.

15 destroyers, guided missile cruiser destroyers and cruisers, at least four attack, nuclear attack submarines that carry

T-LAMs.

The second fleet command ship, USS Mount Whitney, is in the region to there to coordinate all the naval fires and work that with CENTCOM and UCOM.

We also have two, this is worth noting, two expeditionary mobile bases, the ESBs, and these allow for special operations forces to operate

like we saw with Operation Absolute Resolve off of Venezuela.

So there's also A-10 Warthogs that are in theater.

The 10th Mountain Division from the U.S.

Army has had a rotation, so they're in the CENTCOM AOR right now.

And then there's a number of resupply ships, oilers, refuelers, and resupply ships, because there's literally tens of thousands of sailors and Marines afloat that will need to be resupplied at sea.

And then across all the bases that we have in the region, there's nine countries that have got American forces that have some of these platforms, whether they're aircraft or ships or ISR platforms in Spain, Italy, Greece.

UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Croatia, and Djibouti, and the UK.

So there's a lot of force that's coming in.

You know, comparing to other times, I'm not sure that's really helpful.

Right now, though, what I would say is, in my professional estimate, is that the pieces are being moved in to strike Iran.

Now, diplomacy and negotiations are another thing, but sending the USS Gerald R. Ford, who's been on deployment since last June,