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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If that is so, then Trump will send in more. It's not rocket surgery.
If the cartels are allowed to do that, the U.S. military are going in.
I want one of those turrets atop my Ford Expedition. What a video game the morning commute would become, eh?!
Yes sir, that’s the ticket.
There’s a battle worth fighting.
Sign me up, I am ready, willing, but maybe not so able at 74.
The missing key ingredient is authorization to use deadly force.
“officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity”
Why can’t the DOD speak for itself? Why must it always be an anonymous source? Isn’t that the same as a leaker?
Find these “anonymous sources”, and purge them from the ranks, charge them with espionage, and execute them.
This subversion of our Defense Department must stop.
This is the number one border that Trump is really concerned about! Russia Ukrainian not so much.
Trump should follow up his first term creation of Space Force by creating the Border Guard, a land based military force akin to the Coast Guard that is not limited by posse comitatus. The Border Guard would be under the Dept of Homeland Security in times of peace and transferred to the Dept of Defense in time of war (like the Coast Guard). This could free up LEO organizations like ICE and CBP for larger scale immigration enforcement while establishing a permanent military force (and associated infrastructure) tasked with protecting our borders.
While we’re adding a new uniformed service, we can scrap 2 others; the United States Public Health Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps. These services have no business wearing military uniforms.
That’s the biggest threat.
Reduced ammo capacity if we do that - and volume of fire is needed especially now that the cartels are bringing drones.
If you meant 50mm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM913_chain_gun
If the Rio Grande is navigable, the USCG can do that job AND as the world’s premiere maritime law enforcement agency it has a lot of alien migration experience.
25mm is anti-tank/AA. I don’t think we have an active 50mm gun
The comPost hasn't shaken its decades-old communist anti-American habits.
Yes, I believe that’s been the intention all along.
Arresting a few cartel bosses here and there won’t remove them. We’ll need to dig deeper... Much deeper.
Bingo.
Soldiers are trained to kill people and break things. If that's not their mission, sending them to the border is stupid.
Overkill is the 33 operational AC-130J Ghostriders, Block 20 with: Precision Strike Package with 30mm and 105mm cannons and Standoff Precision Guided Munitions i.e. GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, GBU-69B Small Glide Munition, AGM-114 Hellfire missile, AGM-176 Griffin A missiles
All other earlier variants retired.
If the cartels get aggressive, they can bring 200k from Mexico alone.
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which, with their light infantry armament, will mean they will have to resort to meat waves to get a few feet gained each day.
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