Troop deployment creates tense atmosphere on US border

ap ^ | 011/2/2018 | NOMAAN MERCHANT

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As the first active-duty military troops sent to the U.S. border with Mexico installed coils of razor wire on a bridge and a riverbank Friday, a sense of unease spread across Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.

I bet it's helped cut down on Smokin' in the Boy's Room, too.

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Was very happy to see that Mattis is deploying 1,000 Marines to the area as well. ‘Bout damned time!

Indeed. Great way to celebrate the birthday ball! And to the dismay of the legalists, the Sea Services are not subject to the Posse Comitatus Act provisions.

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Has there been any more information about deploying the ADS at the border. Someone posted pictures of a train headed south with several of these units on board. They are a different frequency of microwave that only heats up the skin. An article I read is that they have a range of something on the order of SEVEN football fields.

Yep. And, of course, all sorts of interesting microwave emitting equipment is available at Fort Huachuca:

The major units are the United States Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) and the United States Army Intelligence Center. Libby Army Airfield is on post and shares its runway with Sierra Vista Municipal Airport. It was an alternate landing location for the space shuttle, but it was never used as such.

Fort Huachuca is also the headquarters of Army Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS). Other units include the Joint Interoperability Test Command, the Information Systems Engineering Command (ISEC) and the Electronic Proving Ground.

The fort has a radar-equipped aerostat, one of a series maintained for the Drug Enforcement Administration by Harris Corporation. The aerostat is northeast of Garden Canyon and supports the DEA drug interdiction mission by detecting low-flying aircraft attempting to enter the United States from Mexico.

Fort Huachuca contains the Western Division of the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center (AATTC) which is based at the 139th Airlift Wing, Rosecrans Air National Guard Base, Saint Joseph, Missouri.

[Number Four, on the map:]

[bert]

Although stopping all is a worthy goal, stopping most is a win

I saw a three tiered razor wire structure. It looked pretty formadible. I prefer that to a real wall along the river in Texas. The wall moves the border.

A wall cedes the river to Mexico unless built on their side.

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I was in El Paso in the very early 60’s helping a classmate who had 2 babies in a short time. El Paso wasn’t very safe THEN, and I don’t believe it has improved on the safety scale.

The place hasn't been the same since they took the 'gators out of the Plaza de Los Lagartos park and put them in a cage at the zoo. Yeah, there was that trouble with the dentist, but it's said he was drunk at the time...Poor ole Humpty, last of the bunch, passed away at the zoo in the mid-'90s.

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I saw a three tiered razor wire structure. It looked pretty formadible.

These obstacles are useless, unless: under observation and covered by fire. The fire does not need to be lethal fire, it could be fire hoses, tasers, sound, Active Defense Systems (ADS), etc.

[Howie66]

Sadly, far too many people fail to understand the true concept of Posse comitatus.

Thank God that President Trump does understand it.

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Well, there SHOULD be a tense atmosphere on the border if illegals are trying to cross. It should have been tense a long time ago with troops put on the border years ago. We’ve only been committing national suicide.

[NFHale]

“...deploying 1,000 Marines...”

If these invaders want to dance, Marines know how to play the music...

Hope you are well, brother.

[bert]

They are under border patrol observation . They are not impenetrable by individuals but will slow if not stop a horde.

I do not think the goal is to prevent strongly motivated from surreptious passage but to prevent the horde passage.

[Howie66]

All good here, my friend!Been taking care of my wife. She had a full knee replacement surgery a few days ago, but she’s recovering nicely!

How you doing? Did you vote yet or are you waiting for Tuesday?

Speaking of “playing the music”, I got my perimeter all locked in. Same goes for my neighbors! Been tuning up our instruments for the eventual dance. :-)

[centurion316]

Certainly it will slow them down, but if the BP doesn’t have a response team, they will be through the wire in a few minutes and the hordes will storm through.

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"President Donald Trump’s portrayal of a border under siege by drug smugglers and other criminals is at odds with what residents in towns along the 1,954-mile (3,126-kilometer) divide with Mexico see in their daily routines, with U.S. border towns consistently ranking among the safest in the country.

THAT is a dirty stinking lie..!

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"I was in El Paso in the very early 60’s helping a classmate who had 2 babies in a short time. El Paso wasn’t very safe THEN, and I don’t believe it has improved on the safety scale."

Yeah....the place is awash in narcotics and all the crime that comes with it... Those folks don't have bars on all their windows and doors for nothing...

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Troop deployment creates tense atmosphere on US border

As it should.

[Rurudyne]

Be a darn shame if a bunch of cartel goons found themselves in the midst of a live fire training exercise.