America sends the third aircraft carrier and about 10,000 troops to the Middle East The United States sends a third aircraft carrier and about 10,000 troops to the Middle East; An action that is being carried out in the midst of reports of an investigation into attacks on Iran again by Donald Trump. According to Fox News, the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier task force and the US 13th Marine Corps are scheduled to enter the area by the end of November. Two US officials said Theodore Roosevelt would join the two aircraft carriers Bush and USS George Washington, which were previously deployed in the area. Theodore Roosevelt's group has about six thousand sailors, and the Marine Corps unit and the accompanying amphibious group number a total of about four thousand and 200 men. According to this report, the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt departed San Diego on 27 September, and the 13th Marine Corps departed a day later with the Mackin Island Amphibious Assault Group.