{"id":228800,"date":"2026-03-20T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:16:09","slug":"san-diego-based-uss-boxer-with-pendleton-marines-deploys-to-mideast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228800\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego-based USS Boxer with Pendleton Marines deploys to Mideast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"USS<\/a>The USS Boxer underway in March 2024 prior to a deployment. (Photo courtesy of the Navy)<\/p>\n

The USS Boxer<\/a> amphibious ready group with 2,200 Marines from Camp Pendleton has deployed to the Mideast as the war with Iran continues.<\/p>\n

According to multiple reports, the amphibious assault ship accompanied by the dock-landing ship USS\u00a0Comstock and amphibious transport dock USS\u00a0Portland left San Diego on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The departure was not announced in advance for security. The Associated Press said it received confirmation that ships are bound for the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The Boxer is a small aircraft carrier with F-35B stealth jets, V-22 Osprey tiltrotors and helicopters, along with hovercraft in its well deck, that can support an amphibious landing by the embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The deployment comes amid discussion about a possible U.S. takeover of Kharg Island<\/a> in the Persian Gulf as a bargaining chip to end the war. Most of Iran\u2019s oil is exported through facilities on the small island.<\/p>\n

Another amphibious unit, led by the Japan-based USS Tripoli, is already in the Indian Ocean enroute to the war area.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the U.S. Naval Institute reported that two San Diego-based littoral combat ships, the USS\u00a0Tulsa and USS\u00a0Santa Barbara,\u00a0have docked in Singapore, potentially headed to the Mideast for mine-sweeping duty in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USS Boxer underway in March 2024 prior to a deployment. (Photo courtesy of the Navy) The USS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[103949,7338,19378,5923,74,76,75,103950,103951,103952],"class_list":["post-228800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-amphibious-ready-group","tag-camp-pendleton","tag-iran","tag-navy","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-uss-boxer","tag-uss-comstock","tag-uss-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}