Posted on 11/14/2018 7:31:29 PM PST by Helicondelta
Secretary of Defense James Mattis Wednesday visited the troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border and gave them some inspiring words ahead of the arrival of a migrant caravan slowly making its way through Mexico toward the U.S.
The Department of Defense’s latest estimate suggests there will be more than 7,000 troops at various positions in Arizona, California and Texas, according to CNBC.
Mattis spoke directly to the troops on his trip.
“In the Army, we don’t care if you’re male or female, we don’t care where you go to church or if you go to church,” he said. “We just care when there’s trouble out there, will you keep the faith, will you ride for the brand, and when trouble looms, do you go toward the trouble to help your buddies.”
“Loyalty only matters when there’s a hundred reasons not to be loyal,” Mattis told the troops. “When it’s raining and you’re cold. It’s when you’re in a position where people are showing a lack of respect for each other elsewhere and you and your team are holding strong.”
“Nothing can shake you,” Mattis added.
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A team without God is doomed.
“We’re going to hold onto him by the nose, and we’re gonna kick him in the ass. We’re gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we’re gonna go through him like crap through a goose!”
God and faith through Christ is primary for a winning military.
Others might tactically win temporarily, but the long fight includes the spiritual domain. Those who ignore it, remain ignorant to their doom.
Mattis addressed the name change Wednesday, saying he didn’t want to “put this mission in some arcane military terms.” (RELATED: US Troops, Border Patrol Prepare For Migrant Caravan By Laying Down Barbed Wire)
“I want to talk to the American people, because this is a highly politically visible issue,” Mattis told reporters. “I want you [the media] to tell them what we’re doing. I want you to tell them we are operating in support of customs or of border police. Do not say we’re supporting a federal agency.”
Mattis asked reporters to stop using military terms when writing on the border deployment.
Fire his sorry ass NOW!
>> “we don’t care where you go to church or if you go to church,” he said
WTF?
This is so wrong on so many levels. Defending the borders is the prime mission of the Army and DIRECTLY apprehending border violators is not unconstitutional in any way. Mattis is an idiot, he sounds senile.
So we can't have a wall and the military keeps a hands off policy on the border.
We are f---ed.
Did anyone interrupt general zippy’s dramatic speech to let him know that the Hondurans were climbing over the border fence today??
He’s senile and can’t carry the border mission. He needs to go away.
Trump has made some really bad hires.
Pep talks, pop poms, and metro-sexual grab bags....Meanwhile the beans are invading at will. The O’muslim usurpation was a lot worse than I thought.
Sounds to me like he’s speaking in code. They shouldn’t care who and what they are and how they believe, we have to protect them.
I think General Mad Hatter is a short timer.
If only they WERE defending the border, rather than merely running errands for the overwhelmed Border Patrol, and setting up facilities to temporarily care for the invaders..
This is a good thing if it means the end of catch and release.
I thought the all-knowing, all-seeing press was reporting Kirsten Nielsen was out of favor and wouldn’t be making the trip with Gen. Mattis. Sure looks like she was right at his side.
Yeah, that would be a good thing if it meant the end of catch and release.... Unfortunately it won’t. Still the same number of people doing the actual catching and the same people doing the releasing.
It is Kabuki Theater On The Border.
Yeah I won’t say if I care or not personally, but there was NO REASON to say it publicly!!!!
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