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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?
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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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Looks like #TRE45ON is finally getting his parade with tanks.
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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.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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In other words, a total gimmick with no tangible effectiveness.deploy 10 M113 armored personnel carrier vehicles to the border.
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"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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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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