U.S. Military Assets and Iranian Tensions

I'll come back to you for a second here.

What is the, how many assets are sort of still available to the U.S. in the region?

Has there been any drawdown since the memorandum of understanding?

I mean, the blockade as it existed is over, but are all those ships and assets still in

place in the region?

A little bit, but they still have pretty much all the firepower available to them that was

there when the ceasefire began.

And keep in mind, during that time, both sides have actually been able to sort of refit.

So the U.S. has been able to take the missiles that were fired off of ships and restock them.

Many of the aircraft that were there, they've had time to rest.

They've even brought an additional carrier air wing, an additional carrier strike group.

The Iranians have done the same thing.

They've been trying to sort of reset, should in fact major combat operations restart again.

And I want to stress this.

This is, this appears to be right now a direct response to the Iranian drone strike from

yesterday against the commercial ship.

The military is describing this as somewhat proportional.

At this point, this is not a resumption of major combat operations, but what we have

to watch for is whether it does escalate into something.