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About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says
Military Times | 20 SEP 2019 | Military Staff

Posted on 09/20/2019 8:07:23 PM PDT by 2banana

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To: 2banana

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/09/20/about-a-mile-of-new-wall-built-each-day-along-mexico-border-pentagon-says/


21 posted on 09/20/2019 9:25:13 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: hardspunned

Ann who?


23 posted on 09/20/2019 9:28:25 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: hardspunned
Coulter is a self promoting MORON. at least she’s a decent looking blonde 👱‍♀️
24 posted on 09/20/2019 9:54:09 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Tawiskaro
Man, that is a great pic......me likey. 👍
25 posted on 09/20/2019 9:55:29 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: Truthoverpower

Dude, Coulter used to be a knockout. Now she’s just a scrawny looking 58 year old with silicone implants. In private she must be a real piece of work, otherwise she would have been married even just once by now.


26 posted on 09/20/2019 10:04:06 PM PDT by tom h
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To: Reno89519

If you deport them now, they’ll just walk over the unwalled parts of the border and be back tomorrow. It would be literal security theater.


27 posted on 09/20/2019 10:06:19 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: hardspunned

Coulter is just another one of those attention seeking whores.


28 posted on 09/20/2019 10:19:13 PM PDT by crz
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To: 2banana

Military Times is no longer published by Gannet, but by Regent.


29 posted on 09/20/2019 10:33:36 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: 2banana

Q: Hi. Travis Tritten, Bloomberg Government. I wanted to follow up on the border construction and the $3.6 billion in 2808 money. Do you know when that will be fully contracted out? And then, do you have a timeline for when both pots of money will — construction from both pots of money will be fully completed?

MR. HOFFMAN: I don’t have a timeline for you on that. I — the — right now, we’re — we’re getting the first of those contracts ready to go. As was previously mentioned, we have a property from DOI that needed to be transferred over for — for a number of those, so we’ve got to work through that process.

And it’s going to take, you know, months to get that, as I mentioned, the money for the 28 — 284 projects came on — came over in — I believe in — in May and we’ve just completed that process now. So it’s — it’s going to be a few months but our goal is that by the end of next year, we will have completed over 100 — 450 miles of wall construction all told across the entire federal government.

What you’re going to see is there will be a — a — kind of a — it’s a — it’s a bubble; it’ll take a little while as we do the planning, we buy the property, we do the environmental assessments and all of the other things we — we — the assessment we need to do, and then the — you’ll see a rapid increase in the amount.

Right now, we’re at a pace of about a mile a day and we’ll see that — that continue to go up, so.

Q: You said 450?

MR. HOFFMAN: 450 is, I think, the administration’s goal for the end of next year.

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Q: ... follow up. You said that there’s a mile a day in construction. You mean the administration, the government as a whole? Has DOD broken ground on any projects?

MR. HOFFMAN: So the — they’re — understanding that the — the executive agent for much of the construction is the Army Corps of Engineers. So when you say the DOD, the Army ...

Q: ... pots of money, the 284, 2808. Have any projects gone on under that ...

MR. HOFFMAN: I can get an answer for you in about 10 minutes, but I’m — I’m almost certain that on the 284 that we have started projects out of those monies, but I — the money’s in the contracts for all of them, but I believe we’ve broken ground on those. I can get an update for you pretty quickly after this.

— direct transcript from DoD

Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Jonathan R. Hoffman and Joint Staff Spokesperson Air Force Col. Patrick S. Ryder Defense Department Press Briefing
SEPT. 19, 2019

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/1966157/assistant-to-the-secretary-of-defense-for-public-affairs-jonathan-r-hoffman-and/


30 posted on 09/20/2019 10:37:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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They can build a MILE of Wall in a day???!!!!
31 posted on 09/21/2019 1:29:22 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: hardspunned

Maybe Ann is in the in-between place, no longer hysterical because now, after all, some progress is being made.

But hesitant to say “good job Trump”, because it is frankly far, far, far from a good job yet.

Trump is looking like he will maybe do this, but he is far, for from where he should be right now.

For real.

I love the job he’s doing. But there are far, far, far too many old timers still in the way.

For real.


32 posted on 09/21/2019 1:33:39 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: 2banana; KavMan; SteveH

I am afraid that the Pentagon spokesman misspoke.

Today, we are running at about a half mile per day. The day before yesterday, the real subject matter expert, LTG Semonite, Commanding General of the Army Corps of Engineers, said that we emplacing 270 bollard panels per day. They are 8 feet each, so that is a little over 2 miles per week based on a five day a week schedule, close to three miles a week on a seven day a week schedule.

The existing contracts should get us to a mile a day, once all the projects break ground, and all the crews are working, over the next 2-3 months. More contracts are coming (lots) when that $3.6 billion in Military Construction (MILCON) gets on contract. We will likely peak at something like two miles per day, sometime next year, if the MILCON does not get held up in court.

It is top of the line wall system, going where it is most needed - making a big difference where it goes. San Diego, the biggest city on the border, has already seen a 90% drop, and they still have about four miles left to do. All of the remaining illegal crossers there, have been coming through that gap. All of them. The new double barrier system there has been stopping all crossers cold. It is on track to complete as scheduled, in January.


33 posted on 09/21/2019 3:39:16 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Nothingburger

Twenty eight miles for me.


34 posted on 09/21/2019 4:02:55 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: 2banana

Military Times, a Gannett Publications

You cannot post full text or even excerpts

But you CAN posts tittles and links


35 posted on 09/21/2019 4:16:57 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Kirkwood

Since Regent is not on the FR copyright list, full articles, excerpts, links and titles are OK, I assume.


36 posted on 09/21/2019 4:23:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Reno89519

it is all a failure.
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That’s a bit of exaggeration, don’t you think?


37 posted on 09/21/2019 5:11:09 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

After 8 years of Obama it was finally shovel ready.


38 posted on 09/21/2019 5:43:08 AM PDT by cnsmom (G)
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To: cnsmom

After 8 years of Obama it was finally shovel ready.
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Now that is some great wit! Nice job!


39 posted on 09/21/2019 5:53:08 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

btt


40 posted on 09/21/2019 5:57:50 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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