Posted on 04/19/2019 5:44:37 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(CNN)"On April 13, 2019, at approximately 2 p.m. CDT, five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two U.S. Army soldiers who were conducting border support operations in an unmarked (CBP) vehicle near the southwest border in the vicinity of Clint, Texas," US Northern Command told CNN in a statement. "The US soldiers were appropriately in US territory" during the encounter, the statement added. During the incident, the Mexican soldiers pointed their weapons at the US troops, removing a soldier's sidearm and returning it to the unmarked US vehicle, the officials said. The Mexican troops were armed with what appeared to be assault rifles (Snip) Officials said that the US soldiers allowed the weapon to be taken "in an attempt to de-escalate a potential volatile situation."
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One of the American soldiers spoke some Spanish and was able to explain the situation to the Mexican forces. The two sides talked the incident over and promised to de-conflict in the future, the officials said. "An inquiry by (Customs and Border Patrol) and (the Department of Defense) revealed that the Mexican military members believed that the US Army soldiers were south of the border," Northern Command said while adding that the US troops were north of the border. "Though they were south of the border fence, US soldiers remained in US territory, north of the actual border," the statement said, adding that "after a brief discussion between the soldiers from the two nations, the Mexican military members departed the area."
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Sounds like a good way to properly close the border to me.
In profound agreement with this.
This good news! The sooner this tinderbox explodes into an all out war with mexico and the rest of them in central America, the better... IMHO
They most certainly did, something on which CNN declined to comment and is now complicit with their action.
And are they SURE they were actual Mexican soldiers?
Or has our military become so wussified that they accept this kind of treatment from TOTAL STRANGERS that could be POSING as Mexican soldiers??????
What were Mexican soldiers doing in the US, questioning US soldiers? That is the real question.
No sir. Kill them until they have had enough. That is all that culture understands. I'm married to the culture. You don't have a clue on how to deal with them.
Why aren’t they dead you ask? Because you never leave a Marine’s job to an Army dog
B.S.!
De-escalation is just another term for surrender...
The Mexican troops likely were protecting smuggling cartels.
That was an act of aggression and needs to be dealt with accordingly.
It has happened before in other areas.
Numbers, perhaps?
I want to know which cowardly POS that calls themselves a "US Soldier", gave up his damned weapon?
Deescalate, my ass.
Court Martial the SOB for Misconduct before the Enemy.
Because they are the ENEMY when they cross OUR border and INVADE OUR country!
This pisses me off!
.... This was the chance of the US to make a viable and serious point to the rest of the world, especially to the invaders from south of the border ..... If the US Soldiers were on American soil .... They should have initiated engagement ..... and sent a powerful message to the world ... That America is willing to defend its borders against all parties that seek to illegally cross our legal and defendable sovereign boundaries ....
.... Make no mistake about it .... this was a test by a foreign military OPFOR.
Exactly. Something should have happened with 30 minutes of the two groups parting. After wiping out the five, tell Mexico the very next time it happens, the entire unit to which the perps belong will be killed. We have Casper Milktoasts for military leaders.
Glad you said that... Wish I was still quick enough mentally to have said it... Semper Fi...
Mexican soldiers on US soil??? Armed and interfering with our troops. I say shot them
???? So we just acquiesce to these incursions? WTF?
And, I can tell them in fluent Spanish.
I won’t talk tough.
I don’t want to die going for a sidearm when i have NO CHANCE of getting it out before i’m dead.
I don’t know protocol, I wasn’t there.
But seems like this will embolden mexican army in the future.
But what do I know?
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