US forces deploy carriers, destroyers, and empiric ships throughout the Arabian Sea, Red Sea, and Mediterranean Sea The Arabian Sea hosts the aircraft carrier George Washington (CVN-73) and USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), with the Bush Strike Group, the destroyer Shoup (DDG-86, and the amphibious assault ship Boxer (L-4S) with a Marines and S Portland, the 11th. The Red Sea maintains two guided-missile destroyers, USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) and USS Gonzalez (DDG-66). Three guided-missile destroyers, USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79), USS Bulkley (DDG-84) and USS Stout (DDG-55), operate independently in the Mediterranean.