Posted on 01/24/2025 12:59:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
U.S. officials are preparing to send thousands of additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, including, potentially, soldiers equipped with 20-ton Stryker combat vehicles, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the planning.
The Pentagon is rushing to cobble together options for an operation that President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency. These additional service members and capabilities, if all approved, would vastly expand the military’s footprint from Texas to California, where roughly 2,500 troops are positioned to assist U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the detection and apprehension of migrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.
One military official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive and evolving situation, said that some units have received notifications warning that they may be needed to deploy depending on the Trump administration’s desires. These efforts would supplement the Pentagon’s decision this week to send 1,500 service members to the border to augment the existing force that dates to the Biden administration.
Trump has portrayed the flow of people and illegal drugs across America’s southern frontier as an invasion that must be met with military might. He has long shown an appetite to employ U.S. troops domestically for demonstrations of force, whether to deter migration or to crack down on civil protests.
The effort underway now could include well over 10,000 soldiers and Marines, defense officials said.
The Army is considering deploying the headquarters of the 10th Mountain Division, which is commanded by a two-star general, officials said. The infantry unit is based at Fort Drum in northern New York — not far from the Canadian border — and is available if needed, officials said.
Discussions also have included sending a brigade of infantry soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division in...
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Infantry with guns and bullets I hope
I think this is great.
My Question is.. Will the soldiers be ARMED?
And will they be allowed to Shoot back? Against the Coyotes, cartels and as likely the Federales?
Does WAPO think we have troops on horses we can send?
The Washington Compost strikes again.
Well…ya.
That’s what troops are all about
Washington Post has a problem with furnishing our troops against invaders?
WaPo was very big on ousting Nixon for doing something Democrat presidents call morning routine
What’s the problem
We need to annex a buffer zone in Messico. Go in about 100 miles.
You know what
Looks like trump not winning on 2020 and wining in 2024 was a blessing in disguise
Trump seems to have surrounded himself with better people in 2024 then he would have in 2020
Trump seems stronger in 2024 then he would have been in 2020
Honestly I think this was a blessing that he won now and not 2020. Although we did get a nasty 4 years of Biden. Still. I prefer this version of trump then the one we would have gotten in 2020
The pics I saw yesterday the guys were actually armed.
Buy our abandoned stuff from the Taliban. It would show we’re serious about our border even if it has no effect.
Many times cartels and the Mexican army have shown armed hostility to American law enforcement and even on our side of the border.
make mexico america...
I love it.
Similar to JAN 6 arrests.
1500,2500,10,000——
Strikers and Drones and Bars Oh My !
Yer point, Dan?
“We need to annex a buffer zone in Messico. Go in about 100 miles.”
That would be an excellent negotiating point with Mexico.
“You fix the problem on your end or we do the work Mexicans won’t do.”
A-10 Warthogs would be nice.
Bless the troops .
Both pant legs for the cartels.
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