[Virginia Ridgerunner]

One of my good buddies was one of the "up to 6,000" National Guardsmen" who were sent to the border last summer as a result of the pre-election Conservative outrage over the situation down there. He spent about four months down in Arizona, and said that the whole exercise was a joke. He and his pards stayed in a Double Tree hotel in Phoenix, spent most of the time partying, and routinely drove down to the other side of the border to visit some Mexican senoritas.

Yeah, when the Administration says that it is going to do something, it really means it!

[Afronaut]

Are you adding to my state of agitated discontent ? LOL!

[gas0linealley]

Thanks for enlightening us about the charade. I’m sure most of us suspected as much.

I enlisted, Vietnam era. It didn’t take too long before I thought: “I am willing to die for my Country, but not to have my life thrown away for nothing”. I’m not talking about the merits of the Vietnam conflict, I’m talking about the military bull*hit. Fortunately, I didn’t go to Nam.

[NRA2BFree]

Yeah, when the Administration says that it is going to do something, it really means it!

This article is from [last] year!

[Sender]

The whole National Guard deployment to the border would seem to be useless since they weren't allowed to engage even armed people coming across.

If you're going to put guards on the border, the guards need to have authority (and ammo) to keep people out, or else what's the use?