U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, declared on Oct. 8 that extra A-10s, F-15s, and F-16s were deploying to its theater of actions alongside the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike team, which arrived on Tuesday in the Eastern Mediterranean.
On Thursday, the 354th Fighter Squadron from Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, reached the CENTCOM area.
“We expect to see more posture increases flowing in over the next week,” said the senior defense official, who did not specify what U.S. military forces would arrive in the region. “The [CENTCOM] announcement of the posture increases on Sunday are extremely significant and sizeable, and it’s going to take a couple days to get all those augmentations in place.”
U.S. military personnel stationed at the American embassy in Israel are also offering advise to the Israel Defense Forces concerning hostage rescue mission. Pentagon at present does not have any intention of dispatching American ground troops to Israel.
Meanwhile, the USS Ford and its task force will conduct in a range of assignments in the Eastern Mediterranean, encompassing intelligence and maritime assistance. Despite the Ford's task force being capable of executing long-range attacks, that is not a choice the Defense Department is contemplating.
U.S. government authorities have not yet made a determination regarding whether the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its task force, which embarked on a deployment to Europe arranged before the Oct. 7 assaults, will rendezvous with the USS Ford in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The initial U.S. delivery of compact-size bombs and various armaments reached Israel in the recent week. Upcoming transports of military gear for Israel should comprise anti-aircraft systems, artillery rounds, Joint Direct Attack Munition sets, alternative precision-guided armaments, and interceptors for their Iron Dome setup.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is scheduled to travel to Israel, where he will meet withIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Israel's war cabinet.
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