Posted on 01/08/2019 8:22:41 AM PST by Monrose72
The Pentagon is making preparations in the event of President Donald Trump ordering the military to build the southern wall, a defense official has said. Trump recently hinted that he might take this course of action in the light of an impasse in negotiations with Democrats resulting in the government shutdown.
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Preparations consist of finding their checkbook and figuring out which account from which to draw the $5.7 billion.
I wonder just how fast the military could put the wall up.
yeah, they must be trained in construction?
The actual cost will drop like a rock, if you use military personnel. All that overhead will go away. Army officers will ensure the projects stay on schedule. It’ll be done before fall of 2020. In fact, it won’t surprise me if he brings US military units from Germany on temp-duty...to be part of the construction project.
Good. I hope that will work.
one of the main reasons the Democrat Mattis was shitcanned, he did not support using the military to build the wall
Don’t know. But think about the deterrent value alone of tens of thousands of US military running around the border during the process.
If walls/barriers are soooo bad, why isn’t Schumer/Pelosi arguing to tear down the barriers that are currently in place, for example between San Diego and Tijuana?
Walls work and they know it - and they’re scared.
Go Trump - MAGA
Go Melania aka Lady MAGA
SeaBees could have that wall up in no time at all!!!!
Probably not very fast. There will be political pressure to prevent and/or legal pressure brought by politicians. There will also likely be protests, sit ins and maybe even violence against those building it.
I still think this is nothing more than gamesmanship. But if Trump announces that he’s citing an emergency to build the wall tonight, I don’t know how this ends. All hell will break loose politically.
Pentagon petty cash.
You have engineering corps that are trained in construction.
But I’m thinking what’s required?
You dig a ditch.
You place the steel, with supports leveling it.
You pour concrete.
The border is 1900 miles long.
So you set up 40 teams, one team for each 50 miles.
Give each team 10 trenchers and 4 cranes.
Arrange for the steel to be delivered (Probably the bottleneck).
Arrange for the concrete to be delivered.
Set up a system, so the ditch is dug in time for the steel to be delivered and placed, and the concrete comes shortly thereafter.
Hell will be broke loose one way or another sooner or later. W was afraid of it and gave in. He could have been a very good president.
Dems bring nothing but destruction. Birth control and abortion is their main currency. The prince of that level of evil and destruction is their lord. They obtain power any way they can. Currently that’s illegal immigration
Ion. They will NEVER give in to U.S. Standards of operation. They bow down not to the constitution but tothe prince of worldly power.
All hell is going to break through. Yes. Prolonging it will only make it worse for our progeny.
Bring it on
Naval Reserve Construction Battalions need training duty.
Can Do!
Autocorrect likes broke loose. But it is broken loose. Or hell will break loose.
Either way it will.
There will be protests, but it’s the military.
There will be political posturing, but only a court order would stop it.
And I’m thinking if you created a system with multiple teams. You could knock it out pretty quickly.
“All hell will break loose politically”.
I thiMk that would be a good thiMg. I don’t thiMk that the proggs can win this battle.
This so called "mad dog"....what a joke. He was a very sad dog, in fact a sad sack, when it came to getting our military to build the wall. How many foreign nations is our military involved in border protection. Korea, a few in the middle east...
The US Air Force has units called “White Horse” and “Red Horse” that can build anything....and don’t forget the CB’s and other military units that can also build anything you want.....JUST DO IT!!
All the major debris was out of the way and there were communications complexes set up with generators and the whole 9 yards...and there was also a huge effort going on to make positive contact with everyone, military and civilian, underway......
Nothing to give one an idea of what the military can do like when you have an actual SHTF situation.
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