BRKG Texas Guard to send tank like vehicles to border
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Groucho
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An M2 .50 will cut through the aluminum "armor" of an m-113 like the proverbial hot knife through butter. To take on the cartels we need air power, armor, arty, and troops. Full war footing. The illegal rat bastards will slow to nothing because nobody wants to wander into an active combat zone.
We should make an active combat zone from our border to 10 miles into Mexico. Just make it a no mans land.
We should make an active combat zone from our border to 10 miles into Mexico. Just make it a no mans land.
Seeker22
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Aluminium shoe boxes ain't armor.
We were told they would barely slow down 50cal.
I wouldn't want to be inside if it was catching APIT rounds.
Vulcan lore, a systems mechanic was working on a gun in Alpha Battery at Fall Gunnery.
There were two rounds left in the barrels, when he spun the gun...they fired.
Both rounds went through the driver's hatch ring of the track next to him.
The driver was in the seat, but it was collapsed down to the lowest position, so the rounds went just over his head.
TammyinWI
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Texas Guard to send tank-like military vehicles to the border
By Davis Winkie
Nov 18, 06:13 PM
A soldier assigned to the Connecticut Army National Guard operates an M113 Armored Personnel Carrier at Stones Ranch Military Reservation, East Lyme, Connecticut, April 27, 2022. (Sgt. Matthew Lucibello/Army):quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/archetype/ES737LPOEZFU7PG2HJGKSVJOBE.jpg)
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Three days after Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted a legally dubious invocation of the “invasion clause” of the U.S. and Texas constitutions over the high number of migrant encounters at the Texas-Mexico border, his border mission is set to include armored personnel carriers designed to carry troops into battle alongside tanks, according to a planning document obtained by Army Times and The Texas Tribune.
The order issued Thursday by Texas Military Department officials to the headquarters overseeing Operation Lone Star reveals that the National Guard will soon deploy 10 of the M113 armored personnel carrier vehicles to the border.
According to the order, around 50 soldiers will be trained to operate the vehicles, and state officials will identify 10 positions to station them along the border.
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By Davis Winkie
The Texas Military Department said in a written statement that in addition to the 10 armored vehicles, the Texas National Guard is increasing “aircraft flights and security efforts” on the border.
“These actions are part of a larger strategy to use every available tool to fight back against the record-breaking level of illegal immigration,” the department said. “The Texas National Guard is taking unprecedented measures to safeguard our border and to repel and turn-back immigrants trying to cross the border illegally.”
Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021, sending thousands of soldiers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to the border while accusing the Biden administration of failing to secure the border. The effort has included placing shipping containers and rows of DPS and military vehicles along the Rio Grande to deter migrants from crossing, plus using state money and donations to build border barriers.
Armored personnel carriers like the M113 are designed to carry infantry troops across modern battlefields alongside tanks. They can be equipped with a range of weapons: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, antitank missiles or even large cannons similar to those mounted on tanks. It’s not clear what weapons, if any, will be on the Texas Guard’s M113s at the border.
Such vehicles are by definition bulletproof and can withstand small explosions. In the civilian world, lighter, wheeled armored personnel carriers are sometimes used to carry police SWAT teams.
Lovingly known as the “battle taxi” by Army troops, the Vietnam-era M113 features tracks instead of wheels, leading observers to sometimes confuse them for tanks. Tracks allow heavy armored vehicles to traverse difficult terrain — such as ditches or muddy areas — with a lower risk of becoming stuck.
The U.S. has sent 200 of the aging vehicles to Ukraine to support that country’s fight against invading Russians.
It’s not clear why the Texas Military Department plans to deploy the vehicles to the border. Since Operation Lone Star began, the agency has not publicly acknowledged any incidents in which the protection provided by the more nimble Humvee vehicles deployed there was inadequate.
Since Operation Lone Star began, the number of migrants apprehended along the Texas-Mexico border has increased despite the expenditure of $4 billion and the involuntary deployment of up to 6,500 Texas Military Department troops.
Concerns with Operation Lone Star’s misdemeanor trespassing arrests of migrants also have sparked a Department of Justice civil rights probe.
Additionally, Texas Guard troops have complained about pay problems, poor living conditions and inconsistent guidance from leaders since the operation expanded massively last fall.
The news organizations revealed these issues in a series of stories scrutinizing the mission’s hasty mobilization process, how agency leaders ignored the results of a feedback survey and its budget overruns.
In recent months, the military department has taken steps to address soldiers’ concerns and slowly reduced the number of troops on the border. Three of the department’s top leaders also abruptly departed the agency in March and April.
Ten soldiers linked to the mission have died since September 2021, all via accident or suicide.
*Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include a response from the Texas military department, which previously did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
About Davis Winkie
Davis Winkie is a senior reporter covering the Army, specializing in accountability reporting, personnel issues and military justice. He joined Military Times in 2020. Davis studied history at Vanderbilt University and UNC-Chapel Hill, writing a master's thesis about how the Cold War-era Defense Department influenced Hollywood's WWII movies Texas Guard to send tank-like military vehicles to the border
SO! It is beginning, the next phase of attempting to get us to martial law...I am praying that it will hold off untilspring, the final clampdown.
I think it might...I think it will be 2023, the end of ZUSA...anarchy, chaos, much death, and MANY dying for the Cause, those of us who WILL NOT renounce Christ!
Early 2023. i have been waiting for this for over two decades, and wondered how in the heck they were going to do it...I see clearly now...open borders...build that wall...open borders...psy ops, militarization, the opening of ALL of the FEMA camps all over the ZUSA.
Tanks were found and reported, staged close to the border in mexico...months ago. These plans have been in place for a lot longer than that...decades, even back into the end of the 19th century, during the industrial revolution. Yes, it goes that far back. They have honed their skills and God is still in control God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorow...He got this...He is permitting this.
I can hear Jim Morrison and The Doors...this is the end, my friend...in the meantime, I am going to continue to pray and believe for Miracles. Do not allow anyone to steal Your Crown!
TammyinWI
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Ok...um, would they survive an EMP????
First...You forgot the obligatory
Yes, the tracks are about as Fred Flintstone as you can get.
No power needed, once they are running.
6V53 Detroit Diesels, straight mechanical operation.
Profit of Doom
Dismember
Warthogs.
TammyinWI
Talk is cheap
First...You forgot the obligatory
Yes, the tracks are about as Fred Flintstone as you can get.
No power needed, once they are running.
6V53 Detroit Diesels, straight mechanical operation.
You are right! I better make up for that...my bad, my apologies!
thrown in for good measure!But seriously: thank you for the info/intel! Connecting more dots out of necessity.