(10-31-2018 08:19 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-31-2018 08:08 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Surprised I haven’t seen many Jade Helm-type conspiracy theories as Trump mobilizes military troops to Texas. Anyone think Abbott will pipe up this time?

No, because I'm betting that this time Abbott has been told what's going on.

From what I've seen, there appear to be a lot of Corps of Engineers types going down there. Maybe they're there to build facilities to handle the crush, wen it comes. I doubt what's there now is adequate.

Yeah, that's the exact reason Abbott is on board. Nothing to do with politics...

Per the WSJ:

Quote: Under the new plans, about 1,800 troops will go to Texas, 1,700 to Arizona and 1,500 to California. The troops will be drawn from about 10 U.S. Army installations and consist largely of military police and engineers, officials said. U.S. Marines also will be deployed, officials said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/military-to...1540820650

The local paper from Fort Bragg goes into more detail.

Quote:“By the end of this week we will deploy over 5,200 soldiers to the Southwest border,” he said. “That is just the start of this operation. We will continue to adjust the numbers and inform you of those.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will work with “three combat engineer battalions with expertise in building temporary barriers and fencing. The battalions will bring their heavy equipment,” already being hauled to Texas, O’Shaughnessy said.

The active-duty soldiers will join more than 2,000 National Guard troops already at the border as part of “Operation Guardian Support,” according to a Department of Defense news release.

“The troops that deploy with weapons will carry them,” O’Shaughnessy said, according to the DoD release.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/...45820.html

So there will be Corps of Engineers there, but still plenty of MPs and armed soldiers. I see no problem with this, and am glad the idiotic Jade Helm conspiracy theorists aren't up in arms about this event. As a comparison, Jade Helm was an exercise of 1,200 troops across 7 states.