Natl Guard be heavily armed.
They WILL try to provoke an incident.
"They" meaning the invaders, not the National Guard. I know that's what you meant, but some may take it the wrong way.
A rifle squad supporting each Border Patrol Officer, and Spec Ops for Intel and cross-border.
Supported by Drone, satellite, and fast react aircraft.
Imagine the coyotes when the f-18 screams overhead in a sneak pass!
Why would you think that?
Of course.
That is when the reply will be "If there was a wall, there would not have been the possibility of that incident occurring so easily. The N.G. would have never been there.
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“... try to provoke an incident...”
Good. Let them.
Shoot the obvious hardcore organizers, and the rest will run back into Mexico.
They let them in, it’s Mexico’s problem.
Oh yeah, this caravan is too well planned to not have a few agent provocateurs in it. This is the Uniparty’s chance to get Trump painted as a brutal dictator.
I spent 11 years down on or near the Rio chasing these illegal grass crawling invaders.
You need to have thermal capabilities but mobile. Our best unit was a Raytheon Abram sight mounted on a Jeep with full control from passenger seat.
Night vision gear is a must for all boots.
Aerial support for logistics and positioning in the form of helicopters are very nice to have for both tracking and movement of troops to where the grass crawlers are hold up at.
Need local rancher support. Get to know these guys and their dirt like your sisters panty drawer. Some of these ranches down there cover a county and then some.
On the border damn near everyone grows up aiding and abetting the illegal alien trade. They start off making water drops on the highway, graduate to look outs, to driving vehicles and then to coyotes leading packs across ranches. The NG will not know who to trust in the communities or in law enforcement including border patrol. OpSec will be very important
There will be incidents with the cartel where the US better show them who is boss with ARMOR. Automatic weapons and pistolas do not scare them. Blow them away the first encounter. Take no prisoners and show no quarter.
Like my tagline says been there done that but ready to call the ol team back together. We did everything from track them, find tunnels with our blood hounds to all out rolling around in the sugar sand with them. I left a few 40 S&W slugs over there one afternoon when there was no other way out. In some places it is the wild wild west, No law West of the Pecos and the famous Nueces Strip alive and well today.
Would not be surprised if cartel snipers don’t take pot shots.
If any US soldiers get killed that way we should immediately secure a 10 mile buffer inside Mexico.
Nah. You and I both know Pentagon lawyers are hard at work handcuffing every soldier deployed to the Mex border.