[BeauBo]

This 20 mile segment running West from El Paso, is well ahead of schedule - more than half done, in just under a third of their schedule (120 of their 390 days). This 120 day period included the bulk of the monsoon season, which is the main seasonal risk to the schedule.

In the easy, flat and open terrain there, that team has been running about a mile every 11 days.

The big money of this last year's wall funding will go to the Rio Grande Valley in Southern Texas. They are still in the contracting process, and likely won't award task orders until after Christmas. I believe the money is good for five years, so that should not be a problem.

Here you can see the old style Normandy barriers (vehicle barrier), that are being replaced by bollards with anti-climb plate (pedestrian barrier).

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[1Old Pro]

Sweet, hopefully our reopened steel factories can keep pumping out these segments.

[spokeshave2]

well ahead of schedule - more than half done...in just under a third of their schedule time...Nice 11 miles of WIN.

[Lurkinanloomin]

We should post signs on the Mexican sign warning that falls from that height can break both of your legs.

[Big Red Badger]

That photo Cheers Me Up ,
Thanks!

[mabarker1]

MAGA !!!

Build that Wall as fast as Y’All can!!!!! Thank You President Trump.

I know that this won’t stop all of them but it will certainly slow down the masses of A$$E$ flowing across Our Border.

PING!!!!!

[Rebelbase]

where is the concertina wire?

[Army Air Corps]

This 20 mile segment running West from El Paso,...

Beto O'Rourke is deeply saddened.

[TangoLimaSierra]

The photo is from fronterasdesk.org which doesn’t specifically say it is the wall in question.
A stock photo they’ve used in other articles.

[posterchild]

monsoon: a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain

I hope they are building it in the right place.

[posterchild]

Tie rope 1 to a post, throw the other end over. Throw rope 2 over, catch end through posts and tie to one of them. Climb rope 2 until you get to top. Use rope 1 to climb down other side.

[Deo et patriae]

OK, maybe I’m being negative...but the way it looks to me a simple grappling hook would make it very easy to go over the top. I would rather they used a large rounded top that a grappling hook can’t grasp onto. I guess this is better than nothing but I just do not think it will stop them.

[mowowie]

“Environmentalists are suing over the project.”

Environmentalists concerned over the plight of the soon to be endangered illegal invader?

[mowowie]

Doesn’t look too hard to get over...

[rigelkentaurus]

needs a deep mine field, another fence, patrol road and patrol stations.

[tbw2]

U.S. defense contractor has been building border fences for other countries.

They built terrorist and refugee proof border fences for both Saudi Arabia and Jordan, 800-1000 miles each. Each one has watch towers, ditches to stop cars driving through, etc.

But they won’t bid on the same thing here.

They did a half-assed “virtual border fence” of open pylons and sensors around 2008. That failed because:
* it doesn’t matter if you don’t deploy enough border agents to catch a few people coming through
* it fails entirely when there is a dispersed crowd, people coming through in groups at the same time over a wide area
* it fails when mobbed in a single area, akin to the Palestinian effort to send thousands at the Israeli wall at once

The fence has to be solid and more than a metal wall to work.

[Tammy8]

We have a friend that works for a construction company that bid on the fence and didn’t get the job; but he said there were all sorts of incentive bonuses for early completion and penalties for going over cost or time. Carrots and sticks. That is how you get things done in the real world.

That vehicle barrier was a huge waste of time and money. Boondoggle joke. That was what New Mexico got from the Secure Fence Act, and we got very little of that. Most of our border is still today is old barb wire livestock fence.

You would be surprised how many people oppose Trump’s wall because they believe the entire border is already fenced with a great fence like most of California has...Duncan Hunter fence. Those people think Trump just wants to replace it because of his ego or whatever.

Please all of you help educate people what type of border fencing we really have in most areas of the border.

[Night Hides Not]

This 120 day period included the bulk of the monsoon season, which is the main seasonal risk to the schedule.

IIRC, "monsoon season" in that neck of the woods lasts about a week, ten days tops. Rains like hell during that period, accounts for about 80% of the annual rainfall.

I remember a storm at Fort Bliss many years ago, rained about 5 inches in two hours. El Paso gets maybe a foot of rain the entire year.

[9YearLurker]

I still really don’t like that design. The vertical posts make it all too easy to climb. My sense is that the border patrol union, like all unions, wanted to protect its number of jobs and convinced them of a bogus design.

[bgill]

One mile every 11 days. We’ll be on the 3rd generation of current illegals by the time that’s finished.