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2025-03-02 Home Front: WoT
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Pete Hegseth deploys 3,000 troops and 20 combat vehicles to 'seal the border' with Mexico
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| Forming up to go after the narco gang, possibly as the anvil to whatever hammering is planned? |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The United States will deploy nearly 3,000 additional troops to its border with Mexico, bringing the total number of active-duty personnel there to around 9,000, the US military said on Saturday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered elements of a Stryker brigade combat team and a general support aviation battalion for the mission, the Pentagon said.
The forces will arrive along the nearly 2,000-mile border in the coming weeks.
Border security is a key priority for President Donald Trump, who declared a national emergency at the US frontier with Mexico on his first day in office.
The new troops will 'reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States,' the Pentagon said.
The Stryker unit 'will not conduct or be involved in interdiction or deportation operations,' it said, but rather will assist in detection and monitoring, administrative duties and transportation and engineering support, among other tasks.
The Strykers are medium-armored wheeled personnel carriers carrying up to 11 soldiers and typically equipped with a machine gun or grenade launcher. They have been used in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan reports The Washington Post.
The vehicles will likely be moved to the border by rail and truck and will initially be sent to Arizona.
Troops from the aviation unit will meanwhile 'assist in the movement of personnel, equipment, and supplies; and provide aerial medical evacuation capabilities,' NORTHCOM explained.
'These deployments will bring additional agility and capability to further efforts to stop the flow of illegal migrancy and drugs at the southern border,' its commander, General Gregory Guillot said.
The deployment is said to have been planned since January.
'Approximately 2,400 soldiers from elements of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), 4th Infantry Division in Colorado' will be sent to the border, along with 'approximately 500 soldiers from the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade,' US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) said in a statement.
The 9,000 troops at the southern border, include 4,200 deployed under federal orders and about 5,000 National Guard troops under the control of governors.
President Trump is determined to expand the military's role in his effort to shut down the border and send detained migrants back to their home countries.
The administration launched what it cast as a major effort to combat illegal migration that has included immigration raids, arrests and deportations. 
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