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

[AProudLefty]

Note: Earl lied.They are not tanks.

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/local/texas/texas-guard-tanks-border/285-65a44325-8eed-4606-a876-1568538c9a8f

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?

 

[Callinectes]

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.

 

[LurchAddams]

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/local/texas/texas-guard-tanks-border/285-65a44325-8eed-4606-a876-1568538c9a8f

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!

 

[LurchAddams]

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!

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Looks like #TRE45ON is finally getting his parade with tanks.

 

[ExpressLane]

I'll bet the sight of tanks aimed at Mexicans gave you your first boner in years!

Quick bend over and grab your ankles!!!

 

[AProudLefty]

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.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

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.

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,

 

[Dutch Uncle]

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.

 

[Cypress]

deploy 10 M113 armored personnel carrier vehicles to the border.

In other words, a total gimmick with no tangible effectiveness.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Quick bend over and grab your ankles!!!

Is that what you did when the White Nationalists were spreading the Jade Helm conspiracy theory?

 

[Dutch Uncle]

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.

 

[Cypress]

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

 

[AProudLefty]

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.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

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.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Which is odd because it's main function is to protect the infantry as they transport them across the hostile territories.

Correct on main function. Its secondary function is to provide covering fire with a .50 machine gun and 40mm grenade launcher...and it can carry a lot of ammo. LOL

Remember the "Technicals" in the Jihadist countries? Toyota pickup trucks with a machine gun mounted in the back? Pretty effective weapon system against soft (meaning people) targets.

 

[AProudLefty]

Correct on main function. Its secondary function is to provide covering fire with a .50 machine gun and 40mm grenade launcher...and it can carry a lot of ammo. LOL

Remember the "Technicals" in the Jihadist countries? Toyota pickup trucks with a machine gun mounted in the back? Pretty effective weapon system against soft (meaning people) targets.

Lol true. They can just stock up the baddies and the ammo inside.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Well, the M 113 is amphibious so maybe they could act like gunboats in the Rio Grande river. The cartels bringing people across will have to step up their game to deal with that. Could get ugly and interesting all at once...

 

[Cypress]

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.

I just meant that M113 was designed and deployed in the 1960s, making it a relatively antiquated military platform, and ten of them placed on a border hundreds of miles long is a gimmick.

Abbott could send a tangible message by arresting a few dozen businessmen of large Texas companies for hiring undocumented workers

 

[Callinectes]

Are you saying an M113 is a tank. Yes or no, please. No waffling.

No waffling. No, the M113 is an APC that is frequently misidentified as a tank by the media.