Overview
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the deployment, according to a Pentagon statement.
- Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced the move Friday in a social media post.
- The strike group includes five destroyers, though the final composition for the mission remains unspecified.
- The carrier was docked in Croatia as of Friday, following recent operations in the Mediterranean, Arabian Sea, and Red Sea.
- The action follows recent U.S. strikes on vessels the Pentagon said were carrying narcotics.