James Stout

They could also be training Iranian opposition groups, right?

That's possible.

It's not like a core Marine Corps mission.

That's a special forces mission.

But there's a number of things they could be doing.

There are also a number of more Marine Expeditionary Units and other forces that could be moved to the region.

It's interesting to see this just a few months after we saw that national security strategy, which focused heavily on the Western Hemisphere.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, right.

The US isn't going to involve itself in forever wars in the Middle East anymore.

Yeah, shocking.

I believe they are motoring to the region, right?

So the Tripoli... Tripoli's a big boat.

It's called an amphibious assault boat, but that makes it sound like it's like a Higgins boat.

Yeah, yeah.

This is not the boat that you see in the D-Day movies.

In fact, I don't think it can actually... This particular one, if I understand correctly, doesn't carry...

those kinds of boats.

It's not set up for doing a beach landing or an amphibious assault.

But these Marine Expeditionary Units are like the first response, I guess.