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Posted on 07/16/2025 11:03:49 AM PDT by BeauBo
More than a third of Arizona’s roughly 370-mile-long border with Mexico will soon be a (new) military zone. It’s the Trump administration’s latest of four so-called National Defense Areas, known as NDAs, along the Southern Border...
...The Trump administration says Arizona’s upcoming military zone will run along a 140-mile stretch of border near the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma. About 500 Marines and Sailors will operate there, according to a spokesperson with the military’s border task force, who said specific tasks and assignment details are still under development...
...will include the Barry M. Goldwater Range, land surrounding it and the immediate U.S.-Mexico border area. It would begin at the boundary of Organ Pipe National Monument, its eastern boundary, that connects to the Tohono O’odham Reservation, heading west through Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.
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This brings us up to 623 miles out of 1,950 of the Mexican Border under active Military control. It is a phased roll out.
These National Defense Areas, despite having different Service leads, will be manned by personnel serving in Joint Task Force-Southern Border (Headquartered at Ft. Huachuca under an Army two star), under command of NORTHCOM; who will monitor the area, install barriers and signage, conduct patrols and stop any trespassers. The military’s duty will be to detain trespassers only temporarily and transfer them to the custody of law enforcement authorities.
This 4th NDA along the border (140 miles) will be run by the Navy, as an extension of the Marine Base in Yuma.
The third was established in South Texas - spanning 250 miles of the Rio Grande River through Hidalgo and Cameron counties and will be administered as an extension of Joint Base San Antonio by the Air Force.
The first NDA (the New Mexico NDA - NMNDA, 170 miles), is operated by the Army as an extension of Ft. Huachuca. It was sited in Eastern AZ/New Mexico on April 21. The second NDA was established in West Texas on May 1 (the Texas NDA - TXNDA, 63 miles), operated by the Army as an extension of Ft. Bliss (extending to Ft. Hancock).
Marines: “Here we are, back in The Sandbox.”
It’s good news. A country’s military should be used to prevent invasion.
This is really good news.
I truly hope they will scour the entire area for cartel forward observers atop those high promontories: Find and dispatch all of them.
Do Canada next.
Excellent.
This makes it all legal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Reservation
The Theodore Roosevelt Reservation is the 60-foot wide strip (18 m) of land owned by the United States’ federal government along the U.S. side of the U.S.–Mexico Border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Established in 1907
As the Military patrols more of the border, Border Patrol can concentrate their resources more intensely in other parts of the border.
Border Patrol themselves will receive more resources, as part of the Big Beautiful Bill.
Within a couple of months, we should also begin seeing a flood of task orders and contracts to construct more border wall system - the whole package of required barrier has been funded in one lump appropriation. Off to the races!
About damn time!! This is the area with the famous hole in the fence that our illustrious governor refused to plug.
Re back in the sandbox:
Yeah… But it’s OUR sandbox, and it’s OUR border, and it’s time to take care of our homeland, instead of someone else else’s.
Air Force has a tough Area of Operations in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas - no Roosevelt Reservation, lots of private property along the border, winding riverbank and hurricane risk that can push the barrier back over a mile from the border, and two sprawling cross-border urban areas (McAllen/Reynosa and Brownsville/Matamoros).
They will likely have to stick closely to the Border Patrol in that area, as opposed to the open desert areas out West, where the Military can be themselves, and intercept anything that moves.
Air Force has a tough Area of Operations in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas - no Roosevelt Reservation, lots of private property along the border, winding riverbank and hurricane risk that can push the barrier back over a mile from the border, and two sprawling cross-border urban areas (McAllen/Reynosa and Brownsville/Matamoros).
They will likely have to stick closely to the Border Patrol in that area, as opposed to the open desert areas out West, where the Military can be themselves, and intercept anything that moves.
But Muh lost!
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“About damn time!! This is the area with the famous hole in the fence that our illustrious governor refused to plug.”
Military Times previously reported on a smuggler hot spot along this part of the border:
“One Border Patrol representative described the area during a council meeting in 2023, noting, “On the Barry M. Goldwater Range-West ... [Border Patrol] are continuing to see multiple breaches of the border wall on Cabeza Prieta between Monuments 180 and 175. As the breaches are cut, they are repaired, but they cannot keep up.””
Additional monitoring capability and personnel will be guarding it now.
Which should have been done in 2017. If only the Republicans were in control of Congress back then. Oh wait . . .
Jeff, until we are able to rid ourselves of these LYING RINOS this stinking government will NEVER change!! The problem is these bastards talk a really good game out on the campaign trail we vote their LYING butts into office and the betrayal begins!! Once they are in there it takes a damn act of God to get them out!! During the Tea Party revolution we voted SO MANY of these asshats into office only to find them swallowed by the swamp in no time!! I have to say one thing about the Dems they NEVER EVER break ranks regardless of how INSANE the policies are!!!
Every once in a while we would come across a dead body on Ft. Huachuca. Illegals ALL OVER that Army base. A group even sheltered out at black tower area for a day or two, lost and dehydrated.
People who know the region say the real problem is the Tohono O’odham Reservation border with Mexico, along which the smuggling of drugs and humans is common.
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