The Pentagon's Defense to Criticism of Troops Painting the Border Wall: It's 'Anti-Climb' Paint

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Time By W.J. Hennigan June 7, 2019

Days after the Department of Homeland Security told Congress it needed U.S. troops to paint the southern border wall with Mexico to “improve” its “aesthetic appearance,” the Pentagon claimed Friday the maintenance assignment will also have a deterrent effect since American forces will carry out the job with “anti-climb” paint.

“In response to a Department of Homeland Security request for assistance, the DoD is providing approximately 100 active duty personnel to apply anti-climb coating to about a mile of new bollard wall near the Calexico West port of entry in California,” Major Chris Mitchell, a Pentagon spokesman, said. “This effort will provide an operational benefit, in that the coating addresses camouflaging tactics of illegal border crossers and makes the bollards more difficult to climb.”

The cost of the materials involved in the paint job is $150,000, he said. It is expected to take 30 days.

More: https://time.com/5603209/donald-trump-military-border-wall-paint/

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   Another example of Government Efficiency spend millions (billions) erecting a Wall to keep people out and you gotta go back months later and paint it to keep people from climbing it.  We are in deep dodo here, folks, the inmates are obviously running the asylum.

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