Troops on the border just received some bad news for the holidays. The Washington Examiner reports:
Troops could spend the holidays deployed to the border instead of heading home by mid-December .
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is reviewing a request Friday from the Department of Homeland Security to extend the deployment of U.S. troops at the Mexico border until the end of January.
The secretary has not yet approved the request, according to the Pentagon, but it will likely mean thousands of troops will spend the holidays assisting Customs and Border Patrol agents as caravans of migrants arrive.
The mission was slated to end on Dec. 15, and the 5,900 active-duty troops were to return home after being ordered by President Trump to shore up the border against an “invasion” of migrants fleeing Central America, many seeking asylum in the U.S.
This is a sad outcome, but troops continue to protect Americans around the world without coming home for the holidays. This is just another instance of their sacrifice for our freedoms.
Welcome to the friggin’ military. IT”S YOUR JOB, YOU SIGNED UP FOR IT, just like I did. you should be happy that: 1) it’s not Barium Obama who deployed you to the border because he would have equipped you with jock straps and feathered headdresses while secretly arming the potential criminals in Tijuana. 2) The Dem’s love the draft because it “equalizes” (so long as their kids are more equal than yours, and they can manipulate the *random* draft to select people they don’t like and their children) ; however they are the ones who constantly screw around with military appropriations and systems and supply chains like Obama did leaving the Navy under staffed and lacking spare parts (despite the inflated prices int he military supply chain generally caused by those same shenanigans, watch the price of your wedding cake increase every time you change the specifications or size when the bakery is halfway through making it) 3) The democrat potty is the herd that throws you into a conflict with enough rules to make your head spin, and then doesn’t support you. Or worse pretend to support you at first and then go Benedict Arnold at the first sign of political advantage in opposing their original support. One needs to recall that the democrats were all in at the beginning for the gulf war, and then they started hamstringing the troops and appropriations within 6 months – there is a very high likelihood that the whole nightmare in the gulf we now see could have been avoided had sufficient force been applied for a sufficient period of time without their spineless whining and histrionics which gave the shit-heads in al qeda hope. 4) recall Mogadishu and the spinelessness of “optics” Bill Clinton (and his staff) – their policies PUT US servicemen at risk, and then they did not support them. 5) Same policy, different Clinton: Benghazi 6) Obama’s micromanagement of the military and purging of officers who “weren’t on board with the Obama agenda”
You should be glad you’re in an all volunteer military because, your compatriots are all of much higher quality and exhibit (generally) a MUCH higher level of commitment than conscripts: Realize that outside of the Iraqi Republican Guard, all of Saddam’s army (future dead bodies) were conscripts (also known as draftees) – they surrendered in a heartbeat. I’ve seen draftees and non draftees with few exceptions, 0% of the draftees wanted to be there, and many were people you wouldn’t even want pumping gas in New Jersey.
Be happy you have a president who is going to back you 100% ,and then some – those aren’t “just words” to him He’s clearly committed to the military personnel as evidenced by his actions, while the left hangs you out to dry while falsely thanking you for your service: they’ve grown 3 generations of military hating sycophants who get more clueless, more violent, more deranged, and hate you with more virulence with each generation.
how can there be an end date for boarder protection?
God bless our troops who protect our sovereign borders.
May they be made to feel useful and helpful to the border guards.
Put them to work making more barricades to the invaders.
I wish the Army was building new walls, forts and barracks there too.
When did our armed forces ever leave the battle field and go home for Christmas? Are you AX HOLs for real?
When did our armed forces ever leave the battle field and go home for Christmas? Are you AXX HOLs for real?
It is sad that they will miss Christmas with their families, however other military members will also miss Christmas with their families. Liberals don’t seem to care about these military members, only those on our Southern border.
Perhaps they will take out their disappointment and anguish on the would-be wetbacks and the traitors who seek to aid and abet the scum.