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Pentagon orders up to 3,000 troops and Stryker combat vehicles to border
The Washington Post ^ | March 1, 2025 11:22 AM EST | Dan Lamothe

Posted on 03/01/2025 11:09:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 03/01/2025 11:09:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s about time.


2 posted on 03/01/2025 11:11:09 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That is what real national defense and national security looks like.


3 posted on 03/01/2025 11:12:15 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let’s upgrade those 25mm cannon’s to 50mm right away.


4 posted on 03/01/2025 11:14:50 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank you, President Trump. This is our fight, our border.


5 posted on 03/01/2025 11:15:43 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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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?!


6 posted on 03/01/2025 11:15:56 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Please don’t forget the A-10s.


7 posted on 03/01/2025 11:15:59 AM PST by GingisK
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cartel retreat imminent


8 posted on 03/01/2025 11:19:18 AM PST by blackberry1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

101st Airborne Division recently deployed a Company of MPs to the Border.


9 posted on 03/01/2025 11:21:03 AM PST by donozark (If the intelligentsia are so smart, why are they always the first ones to be shot?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“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!


10 posted on 03/01/2025 11:21:37 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us es'se delendam. sic semper tyrannis. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


11 posted on 03/01/2025 11:23:54 AM PST by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They need to give some attention to the northern border as well.


12 posted on 03/01/2025 11:24:59 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

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.


13 posted on 03/01/2025 11:28:47 AM PST by Tallguy
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WT# is “fraught” about it?!

The WP editorial staff has angst about it, so it's "politically fraught."

They just had to throw that in there, dontcha know.

14 posted on 03/01/2025 11:31:41 AM PST by Disambiguator
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Try this out for size
https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/advanced-weapons/bushmaster-chain-guns/50x228mm-bushmaster-chain-gun


15 posted on 03/01/2025 11:32:48 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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Gotcha.

Thanks for clearing that up! :)

Buffoons.


16 posted on 03/01/2025 11:33:55 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They must have recieved intelligence somethings up south of the border.


17 posted on 03/01/2025 11:33:59 AM PST by crz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let word leak out that the US has a few nukes pointed toward Mexico.


18 posted on 03/01/2025 11:34:55 AM PST by DPMD
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What about the Northern border?


19 posted on 03/01/2025 11:39:00 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If the cartels get aggressive, they can bring 200k from Mexico alone.

3000 troops isn’t gonna get it done


20 posted on 03/01/2025 11:42:03 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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