Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered an active-duty Stryker Brigade Combat Team and an aviation battalion to deploy to the U.S. southern border in order to reinforce border security.
On March 1, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced that President Donald Trump and Hegseth had agreed to the deployment.
“As directed by President Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) and General Support Aviation Battalion to reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States, a priority for the President,” Parnell explained in the statement.
“These forces will arrive in the coming weeks and their deployment underscores the Department’s unwavering dedication to working alongside the Department of Homeland Security to secure our southern border and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States under President Trump’s leadership,” he added.
The DoD announced they’re deploying combat units to help secure the southern border:
– Stryker Brigade Combat Team—infantry force of approximately 4,400 soldiers
– General Support Aviation Battalion—roughly 650 troops, UH-60 Black Hawks, and CH-47 Chinooks pic.twitter.com/ppnGsXofDO
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According to U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), roughly 2,400 soldiers total will be sent from Fort Carson, Colorado, to the southern border from elements of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. It is unclear as of the evening of March 3 where exactly these soldiers would be deploying to, though they have confirmed that they will be helping augment units already stationed at the border.
According to Breitbart News, “Soldiers from the Stryker brigade — which is built around the Stryker, an eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicle — will conduct detection and monitoring; administrative support; transportation support; warehousing and logistic support; vehicle maintenance; and engineering support. They will not conduct or be involved in interdiction or deportation operations.”
The last time that the Stryker Brigade was deployed to the southern border was in 2012 under the Obama administration.
In a statement, NORTHCOM Commander Gen. Gregory Guillot explained that the “deployments will bring additional agility and capability to further efforts to stop the flow of illegal migrancy and drugs at the southern border.”
With this new deployment, the total number of active-duty soldiers deployed to the southern border will be roughly 9,000.
BREAKING: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth just said ,”We are dead serious about 100% OPERATIONAL CONTROL of the southern border”
Stryker Brigade Combat Team has been deployed to Help Secure our Southern Border per DOD
For reference, security at the Tijuana, Mexico Border: pic.twitter.com/spF2YlqmPi
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