Appreciate your knowledgeable reply. I was hoping bases along the southern border might be another great project for President Trump. I’m not sure any future President would ever accomplish it or even consider it.
Perhaps if we end up closing some of our military bases in Germany or other parts of Europe, we can re-establish the bases here at home along the border. I think it would be wise and possibly just a “relocation” of those current European funds could make it happen. I do hope President Trump and his staff will somehow get this accomplished.
Having the wall built plus military bases along the border would be a great thing for this country.
An alternative to military bases along the border, would be more Border Patrol.
That is included in the President’s overall plan to achieve full operational control of the border, which was delivered to Congress in March of 2018. It called for $25 billion over five years, to build 1,100 miles of barrier, hire thousands of additional Border Patrol ICE and judge teams, and field several technology programs.
We are definitely behind schedule on the hiring, but there have been indications of preparations to forward deploy additional Border Patrol in the future, likely to include covering more remote locations more actively. They have a contract for a bunch of rapidly deployable buildings - basically shipping container size kits that fold out and lock into place for same day set up.
Small bases could get set up very quickly with these, and endure for many years, or move the next day. Trailer-mounted generators and fuel and water tankers could convoy in with the shelters, and the advance party could sleep indoors with heat or air conditioning the first night. Shifts could rotate to such outposts every few days or once a week, sleeping in shifts, while monitoring surveillance technology (cameras, alarms/sensors, aerial drones) in their sector, conducting patrols, and being available for rapid response.
A small base like that every 10 miles or so in rural areas, would mean that the cops are never more than a few minutes away.