The Pentagon is deploying more military personnel to Mexico’s border. They’re going to install 150 more miles of concertina wire. I guess if we can’t get a wall, more military and concertina wire is better than nothing.
AP:
The U.S. will be sending “several thousand” more American troops to the southern border to provide additional support to Homeland Security, Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan said Tuesday, providing for the first time new estimates for the next phase of the military aid.
He said the troops will mainly be used to install additional wire barriers and provide a large new system of mobile surveillance and monitoring of the border area. Plans call for about 150 more miles of concertina wire placed mainly in the gaps between ports of entry.
It’s still not clear how many of the roughly 2,400 active duty forces currently working the border mission will go home and not be replaced, but the Pentagon estimates that the total number of forces deployed there over the coming months will exceed 4,000.
The Department of Homeland Security, said Shanahan “has asked us to support them in additional concertina wire and then expanded surveillance capability, and we’ve responded with, you know, here how many people it would take and this is the timing and mix of the people to support that.”
The Pentagon has approved an extended U.S. deployment to the border through the end of September. As of Tuesday, officials were still working out exactly how many forces would be deployed and what units should be tapped.
Shanahan’s comments came as members of the House Armed Services Committee grilled top defense and military leaders about the border mission, demanding details on its impact on military readiness and whether needed training and other jobs were not being done as a result.
“What impact does it have to readiness to send several thousand troops down to the Southern border? It interrupts their training. It interrupts their dwell time,” said Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., and chairman of the committee.
WTF is this idiot talking about? The primary mission of any nation’s military is to defend its borders which is what the military is assisting with down there. Apparently Representative Smith thinks the primary mission of our military is to wage retarded wars around the world to benefit Jews.
And one other thing, maybe if these assholes approved funding for the wall Trump requested, he wouldn’t have to deploy the military down there. The Democrats keep putting out the most stupid and retarded arguments for any and all issues. There is something seriously wrong with them. They are insane and need serious professional help.
