escort
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Navy “will escort tankers through the Strait if needed.”
From Barron's
Navy “will escort tankers through the Strait if needed.”
From Barron's
He and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have repeatedly pledged that naval vessels will escort oil tankers and other ships through the strait.
The Pentagon has also weighed sending more destroyers to the region to escort tankers through the strait.
Navy with protective escorts of commercial vessels, as it did in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.