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04/02/2026

BREAKING!! 15,000 More U.S. Marines Sent to Reopen Hormuz and Capture Kharg Island
The Pentagon is rushing additional forces to the Middle East. 2,500 Marines already arrived in Qatar, and now another 2,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division — America's rapid deployment force, capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours — are being airlifted from Fort Bragg on C-17 transports.
Three carrier strike groups are now converging on the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln is in the Arabian Sea with roughly 5,000 sailors and 70 aircraft. The USS Tripoli arrived on March 27 from Japan carrying 3,500 Marines and around 20 F-35B stealth fighters. On March 31, the USS George H.W. Bush departed Norfolk with over 5,000 personnel and three destroyers, expected to arrive in about three weeks — replacing the USS Gerald R. Ford, which left for repairs in Croatia after an onboard fire. Combined, these groups bring over 13,500 sailors and Marines with more than 130 combat aircraft
Across the region, between 40,000 and 50,000 American troops are already stationed at bases in Qatar (Al Udeid, 10,000 troops), Kuwait (13,500), Bahrain (9,000, Fifth Fleet HQ), Saudi Arabia (2,700), the UAE (3,500), and Jordan (4,000). All bases are operating at accelerated tempo.

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04/01/2026

JUST NOW!! U.S. B-52s and B-2s Carried Out the Biggest Airstrike on Iran Ever
On April 1, the United States launched its largest air operation over Iran since Operation Epic Fury began. B-52H bombers flew from RAF Fairford in the UK, refueling mid-air from KC-135 tankers, and destroyed 20 weapons factories and one R&D facility. They carried GBU-31 JDAMs that punch through factory floors and detonate inside, GBU-28 penetrators that drill through 22 feet of concrete to reach underground bunkers, and B-2 Spirit bombers dropped 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators capable of reaching 200 feet underground — deep enough to collapse facilities buried 20 stories below the surface using a smart fuze that detonates at the most critical point.
Fighter waves cleared the path ahead. F/A-18 Super Hornets launched by catapult from the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, while F-35B stealth fighters took off from the USS Tripoli — an amphibious assault ship that arrived in the CENTCOM area on March 27 after transiting from Sasebo, Japan, carrying 3,500 troops and around 20 F-35Bs of VMFA-121. EA-18G Growlers jammed Iranian radars while F-35s silently eliminated surviving air defense sites.
Iran's air defenses — built on 1960s Soviet S-200 systems, limited Bavar-373 batteries, and just four Russian S-300 units covering a country larger than Alaska — collapsed under the assault. The network lacked unified command integration, and over 200 systems were destroyed in the opening days. By April 1, there was almost nothing left to oppose American aircraft.
Over the Strait of Hormuz, AH-64 Apaches hunted Iranian fast boats and Shahed drones at low altitude — engaging with Hellfire missiles from kilometers away, saturating targets with 76 Hydra rockets, and shredding drones with 30mm chain gun bursts at 625 rounds per minute. The air campaign operated at every altitude simultaneously and continued through the night without pause.

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