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    Default Texas Guard to send 'tank-like' military vehicles to the border

    Note: Earl lied.They are not tanks.

    Quote Originally Posted by Hi my name is Earl and I am a retard View Post
    Texas Prepares Military Tanks For Southern Border After Governor Abbott Declares Invasion
    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 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.

    The Texas Military Department said in a written statement Friday that in addition to the 10 armored vehicles, the Texas National Guard is increasing “aircraft flights and security efforts” on the border.




    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.


    https://www.khou.com/article/news/lo...6-1568538c9a8f

    What are they supposed to do? Intimate the women and children? Just sit there pretty? Declaring war on the countries down south? Gov. Abbott playing Napoleon or Patton?

    This is a picture of a M113 APC.


    Scary huh? Right Earl?

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    Well, it's a little scary if you have any idea what that Mk 19 40mm grenade launcher is capable of. Typical of the media to get the details wrong though. A tank basically does two things. It fights other tanks, and it's a mobile artillery piece. Use some common sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Note: Earl lied.They are not tanks.



    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 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.

    The Texas Military Department said in a written statement Friday that in addition to the 10 armored vehicles, the Texas National Guard is increasing “aircraft flights and security efforts” on the border.




    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.


    https://www.khou.com/article/news/lo...6-1568538c9a8f

    What are they supposed to do? Intimate the women and children? Just sit there pretty? Declaring war on the countries down south? Gov. Abbott playing Napoleon or Patton?

    This is a picture of a M113 APC.


    Scary huh? Right Earl?
    Alright! It's got everything the GOP Nazis like, weapons of war aimed at minorities!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Callinectes View Post
    Well, it's a little scary if you have any idea what that Mk 19 40mm grenade launcher is capable of. Typical of the media to get the details wrong though. A tank basically does two things. It fights other tanks, and it's a mobile artillery piece. Use some common sense.
    I'll bet the sight of tanks aimed at Mexicans gave you your first boner in years!
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    Looks like #TRE45ON is finally getting his parade with tanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LurchAddams View Post
    I'll bet the sight of tanks aimed at Mexicans gave you your first boner in years!
    Quick bend over and grab your ankles!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Callinectes View Post
    Well, it's a little scary if you have any idea what that Mk 19 40mm grenade launcher is capable of. Typical of the media to get the details wrong though. A tank basically does two things. It fights other tanks, and it's a mobile artillery piece. Use some common sense.
    It is just a personnel carrier. It transports soldiers over rough terrains.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Note: Earl lied.They are not tanks....
    Agreed, Captain Earl, ex-USAF, lied. He knows better which means he didn't tell a lie out of ignorance. He knew exactly what he was doing.

    Consider the post below. As every good liar knows, the best way to lie is to wrap it around some truth. Have illegals voted? Sure. It's a crime and, if caught they are deported. Have their votes ever changed the outcome of an election? No.

    Crime rates do matter. Facts always matter.

    Only an idiot believes that if any President closed the border with Mexico that it would stop crime, fix the economy and make America great again. Captain Earl is an idiot.

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    Illegals are already voting.

    It doesn’t matter the crime rate.

    Not one crime would be committed by an illegal if the Biden open borders were closed,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Callinectes View Post
    Well, it's a little scary if you have any idea what that Mk 19 40mm grenade launcher is capable of. Typical of the media to get the details wrong though. A tank basically does two things. It fights other tanks, and it's a mobile artillery piece. Use some common sense.
    Are you saying an M113 is a tank. Yes or no, please. No waffling.
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    deploy 10 M113 armored personnel carrier vehicles to the border.
    In other words, a total gimmick with no tangible effectiveness.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    Quick bend over and grab your ankles!!!
    Is that what you did when the White Nationalists were spreading the Jade Helm conspiracy theory?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    In other words, a total gimmick with no tangible effectiveness.

    Partly gimmick. More than a few of JPP's racist White Nationalists have posted fantasies of machine-gunning Mexican families as they cross the border. An M113 is fully capable of doing so...not that I believe they'd do it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    Partly gimmick. More than a few of JPP's racist White Nationalists have posted fantasies of machine-gunning Mexican families as they cross the border. An M113 is fully capable of doing so...not that I believe they'd do it.
    Ten antiquated APCs on an 800 mile border is utterly infective as a military or infiltration deterrent, imo

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    Partly gimmick. More than a few of JPP's racist White Nationalists have posted fantasies of machine-gunning Mexican families as they cross the border. An M113 is fully capable of doing so...not that I believe they'd do it.
    Which is odd because it's main function is to protect the infantry as they transport them across the hostile territories.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Ten antiquated APCs on an 800 mile border is utterly infective as a military or infiltration deterrent, imo
    Sorry, man, but they aren't antiques. Tracked vehicles don't need roads and are faster than anything on two legs and most things on four legs. The .50 rounds are even faster.

    Sure, most of this is for show. Abbott is upping the bet on the illegal immigration problem. Another attempt to move the needle.

    So what's the end game? Mass murder of Mexican families like the White Nationalists and Pedo Nazis want? No.

    IMO he wants Washington to get off their fat, well-heeled asses and solve the problem. Nothing is being done because too many people are making money off the status quo at the expense of Texans and other Southern border state citizens.
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