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In his declaration, Abbott cited the Mexico–United States border crisis and the need to secure the border. The Texas National Guard blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from patrolling the area, which the Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants in recent weeks. [71] [72] After the closure, three migrants were found drowned in the Rio Grande.
In 1976, the Alaska National Guard asked the WAC (Women's Army Corps) Center to develop and conduct a basic training program for female members of the Guard. The scout battalions of the 297th Infantry , Army National Guard, which patrolled the western border of Alaska, recruited native Alaskan women for duty and it needed a special training ...
As of October 29, 2018, a full list of units participating in border support operations had not been released, but activated forces were said to include military police, in addition to combat aviation, combat engineer, medical, and civil affairs units totaling approximately 5,000 U.S. soldiers and 2,000 National Guard troops who are already ...
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he plans to send 1,000 National and State guard members to Texas “relatively shortly” to help place razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border ...
Kulis Air National Guard Base was a National Guard of the United States facility in Anchorage, Alaska.The 127-acre (51 ha) facility adjacent to and south of Ted Stevens International Airport was home to the 176th Wing of the Alaska Air National Guard until that unit moved to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (in an area now known colloquially as Camp Kulis) in February 2011.
In addition to state National Guard units at the border, Abbott's program has spent billions on building walls, barriers, deploying concertina wire, busing migrants to Democrat-run states and ...
Abbott has been on offense during the first three years of the Biden administration, not only beefing up the state's law enforcement and military presence in South Texas, but also placing more ...
The 49th Armored Division —nicknamed the "Lone Star"— was an armored division of the Texas Army National Guard during the Cold War. Active from 1947, the division formed part of the Texas Army National Guard together with the 36th Infantry Division. It was called up for active duty between 1961 and 1962 during the Berlin Crisis. In 1968 ...