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   From: fuck@biden.mil   
      
   Without a carrier strike group or amphibious readiness group currently   
   operating in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy has dispatched two little-   
   known ship classes to help the State Department evacuate people from   
   Sudan.   
      
   Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport USNS Brunswick (T-EPF-6)   
   moved about 300 people from Port Sudan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday.   
   Meanwhile, Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B.   
   Puller (ESB-3) is also operating in the Red Sea, standing by to aid in the   
   evacuation mission.   
      
   The EPFs, built by Austal USA in Mobile, Ala., and the ESBs, built by   
   General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, Calif., have both received attention   
   from the Marine Corps in recent years as an interim solution to move   
   Marines around for its island-hopping strategy while the Navy pursues the   
   Landing Ship Medium. But both classes are now fulfilling missions   
   typically performed by other U.S. Navy assets like amphibious warships at   
   a time when the fleet is balancing operations between the Indo-Pacific,   
   Mediterranean and the Middle East.   
      
      
      
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