The world is burning news. Get your eyeballs on Iraq. A CBG and ARG are now nearby...

via USNI news.

In a rare concurrence of events, a carrier strike group and all three ships of a Navy Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) are in the Persian Gulf, for a total of nine U.S. Navy ships in region, defense officials told USNI News on Tuesday.
USS Bataan (LHD-5), embarked with about 1,000 Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), transited the Strait of Hormuz on Monday joining ships of the George H.W. Bush carrier strike group (CSG).
The two other ships in the Bataan ARG — USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44) and USS Mesa Verde(LPD-19) — entered the region earlier this month.
Some ships in gulf are part of a presence mission in reaction to the Iraq and Syria Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) insurgency and some are in the gulf for earlier scheduled operations, a navy official told USNI News.

I wanted to cover this earlier in the week but got sidetracked.

Something is brewing in the Gulf.  Why do I say that?  Because you have a full Amphibious Ready Group, and a Carrier Battle Group all operating there now.

Old skool Marines and Sailors would call this type of assembly a Naval Task Force.

Add into the mix the abomination known as SPMAGTF-CR stationed nearby (two of them) and we're looking at a Marine Expeditionary Brigade (-) in the region ready for operation.

Ger your eyeballs on Iraq.

It kinda looks like some type of US action is being prepped.