US Sends USS Wasp Amphibious Assault Ship to Mediterranean Sea

The U.S. Navy said that USS Wasp will work with allied maritime forces in the Mediterranean Sea.

A U.S. Navy hovercraft speeds past the USS Wasp, a multipurpose amphibious assault ship, during the amphibious landing exercises as part of the annual joint U.S.–Philippines military exercise on the shores of San Antonio town, facing the South China sea, in the Philippines, on April 11, 2019. Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship the USS Wasp, along with troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit on board, passed through the Strait of Gibraltar on June 26 and has now entered the Mediterranean Sea.

The Wasp-class multi-purpose amphibious assault ship will be joined by the USS Oak Hill, a Harpers Ferry-class amphibious landing dock ship, which passed through the Strait of Gibraltar on June 18.