The Nimitz-class supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt departed its home port in San Diego on Sunday and is expected to reach Persian Gulf waters by late November. The carrier strike group will join the USS George H.W. Bush and the USS George Washington—which was reassigned from the Pacific Ocean to relieve personnel aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln after extended operational deployment. The arrival of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, alongside the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and additional air defense missile batteries in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, will push total U.S. naval and Marine Corps personnel in CENTCOM’s area of responsibility past 20,000. U.S. President Donald Trump rejected a recent Iranian proposal to end military hostilities and unblock the Strait of Hormuz, asserting that potential expansion of military strikes against Tehran remains under consideration following the November midterms.