U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM - Video: USS Boxer (LHD 4) conducts flight operations in the Arabian Sea. Boxer and its embarked Marine Expeditionary Unit continue to enforce the U.S. blockade against Iran. As of Sept. 18, CENTCOM forces have redirected 105 commercial vessels to ensure strict compliance. https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2100991308701516146
U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM - U.S. Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4) train in martial arts while the ship sails in the Arabian Sea. https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2101049264616968431
U.S. Coast Guard @USCG - Ice experience cannot be surged. From Aug. 17 to Sept. 7, U.S. Coast Guard members sailed aboard NoCGV Svalbard in the Nansen and Amundsen Basins north of Svalbard, supporting an international deep-ocean observation campaign alongside the Norwegian Coast Guard. Phase 2 runs through Sept. 27. The work: recovering instrument moorings anchored two and a half miles down, where they spend a year recording ice, temperature, seafloor earthquakes, and acoustic pulses timed across an entire ocean basin. Recovery happens in shifting ice, on the ice's schedule. The reason: the Coast Guard is recapitalizing its polar fleet under the trilateral Icebreaker Collaboration Effort with Canada and Finland. Hulls are being built. The proficiency to operate them is a longer lead item, and it is only built at sea. The pattern behind it runs both ways: Norwegian officers with us during our 2025 Arctic patrol, USCGC Stone and NoCGV Hopen training together this July with Canadian and Finnish observers, and now our crews aboard Svalbard. Each rotation leaves both services with people who have stood a watch on the other's ship. Interoperability underway. The Arctic is one of four operational domains where the Coast Guard delivers for the American people. Readiness there is built years before it is spent.