Posted on 03/01/2025 11:09:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an additional 2,500 to 3,000 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border, including soldiers from a motorized brigade equipped with 20-ton armored Stryker combat vehicles, two defense officials familiar with the effort said.
The defense secretary approved the orders Friday, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal Defense Department planning. The soldiers are primarily from the 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Stryker Brigade at Fort Carson, Colorado, and will be joined by soldiers specializing in engineering, intelligence and public affairs, the officials said.
Officials with U.S. Northern Command, which oversees military operations in the United States, and Pentagon spokesmen John Ullyot and Sean Parnell did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The deployment had been in planning since January and comes despite a sharp drop in border crossings since the Trump administration took office. Hegseth said during a trip to the border in February that all options are on the table to support President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop illegal migration.
The orders are part of a broader, politically fraught military mission that the Trump administration initiated to bolster efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to stop undocumented migrants and drug smugglers from crossing into the United States. Several thousand U.S. troops are already involved, primarily assisting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the detection and apprehension of migrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.
Stryker vehicles — a lightly armored attack vehicle carrying up to 11 soldiers and typically equipped with a machine gun or grenade launcher — have been used in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently, the Biden administration provided some Stryker vehicles to Ukrainian forces, who used them during a cross-border incursion into...
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It’s about time.
That is what real national defense and national security looks like.
Let’s upgrade those 25mm cannon’s to 50mm right away.
Thank you, President Trump. This is our fight, our border.
The orders are part of a broader, politically fraught military mission that the Trump administration initiated to bolster efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to stop undocumented migrants
WT# is “fraught” about it?!
Please don’t forget the A-10s.
Cartel retreat imminent
101st Airborne Division recently deployed a Company of MPs to the Border.
“Oh, but that’s nothing! We leased TWO Blackhawk helicopters and sent them to OUR Southern border! They’ll easily patrol the 5,525 mile border!”
- Justin(e) True-dolt
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No, True-dolt never said such a thing but, he/she/it (inclusivity, doncha know) being the 56 year old male pre-pubescent girl that he/she/it is, could easily have said such a stupid thing!
Before Trump, we paid to “defend” all the globalist borders, except our own.
That was the WEF/globalist/EU socialist plan
No wonder Trump sees them as America’s real enemy.
They need to give some attention to the northern border as well.
Actually the 25 might be overkill for this mission. Ma Deuce would do just fine.
I don’t think we have a modern design on a 50. The 25 lends itself to a ‘chain gun’ auto loading design.
The Warthog has a 30mm multi-barrel that’s a big as a VW bus. Nice to have, but overkill for a light armor, high mobility vehicle.
The WP editorial staff has angst about it, so it's "politically fraught."
They just had to throw that in there, dontcha know.
Try this out for size
https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/advanced-weapons/bushmaster-chain-guns/50x228mm-bushmaster-chain-gun
Gotcha.
Thanks for clearing that up! :)
Buffoons.
They must have recieved intelligence somethings up south of the border.
Let word leak out that the US has a few nukes pointed toward Mexico.
What about the Northern border?
If the cartels get aggressive, they can bring 200k from Mexico alone.
3000 troops isn’t gonna get it done
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