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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 19, 2022, 05:44:18 pm
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Texas Guard to send tank-like military vehicles to the border
By Davis Winkie, Military Times, William Melhado and The Texas TribunePublished November 18, 2022 7:23PMTexasThe Texas Tribune
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.
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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.
Texas Guard to send tank-like military vehicles to the border
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Here's what a liberal website said:
Now Texas Governor Abbott sends TANKS to the border after threatening to send gunboats - as Republican invokes invasion clause to deal with migrants flooding over border
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11447019/Now-Texas-Governor-Abbott-sends-TANKS-border-invoking-invasion-clause.html
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Sweet lord, but the media are ignorant SOBs.
The M113 personnel carrier (Vietnam era) APC is 'boxy' and has tracks.
That and the paint job are the whole part and parcel of its claims to being 'tank like'.
It's about as 'tank like' as a Yugo is 'Mercedes like'.