A US Marine battalion is being sent to Los Angeles to help maintain order as anti-ICE riots continued to rage across Southern California. On Sunday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Marines to prepare for deployment to LA “if violence continues.” On Monday, he made good on the promise, ordering 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms,…
Greetings from Tyler, The State of the Union was last night, I didn’t watch. I waited for the aftermath, and it’s all over the map. Apparently the pretender needed to prove he was “with it.” That might have been a strategic error. His own Department of Justice just concluded that he was too elderly…
Oregon Governor Kate Brown activated the state’s National Guard late Wednesday amid police reports of “widespread violence” and riots in Portland, where 11 were arrested, as demonstrators took to city streets including in New York, Seattle, Oakland, and Detroit, demanding that every vote from Tuesday’s presidential election be counted in full and without hindrance after President…
Florida National Guard Sgt. Jeff Betancourt, with the 124th Infantry Regiment, reviews the scripting process with medics at a COVID-19 Community Based Testing Site, March 19, 2020. (U.S. Army/Sgt. Michael Baltz) As novel coronavirus cases rise, some 2,050 citizen-soldiers and airmen have been activated by state governors, and that number will likely double by the weekend,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is planning to dispatch at least 800 active-duty troops to the southern border at the direction of a president who has sought to transform fears about immigration into electoral gains in the midterms as a caravan of thousands of migrants makes its way through Mexico. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis…
President Trump on Tuesday said that the U.S. will secure the southern border with the military until a wall can be built, calling the move a “big step.” Trump made the remarks during a meeting with Baltic leaders, where he said he had discussed the matter with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. A White House official…