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Posted: 4/20/2019 8:53:01 AM EDT

"On April 13, 2019, at approximately 2 p.m. CDT, five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two U.S. Army soldiers who were conducting border support operations in an unmarked (Customs and Border Protection) vehicle near the southwest border in the vicinity of Clint, Texas," US Northern Command told CNN in a statement.
"The US soldiers were appropriately in US territory" during the encounter, the statement added.
During the incident, the Mexican soldiers pointed their weapons at the US troops, removing a soldier's sidearm and returning it to the unmarked US vehicle, the officials said...

WTF!

Posted: 4/20/2019 8:53:38 AM EDT

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Getting close...

Posted: 4/20/2019 8:54:52 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/20/2019 8:56:47 AM EDT

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I am shocked that CNN reported this factually.

Armed foreign troops on our side of the Rio Grand disarming United States soldiers is an act of overt aggression and should be dealt with accordingly.

Posted: 4/20/2019 8:56:50 AM EDT

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Place is a dump just like Mexico.

Posted: 4/20/2019 8:59:10 AM EDT

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So how were the Mexicans supposed to know where they were at? One big crap hole down there. It all looks the same...except for that little river.

Posted: 4/20/2019 8:59:43 AM EDT

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Good decision on the soldiers part. Never bring a pistol to a rifle fight. Standing orders should be rifles slung at all times from this point forward.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:00:13 AM EDT

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Sounds like an act of war to me.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:00:43 AM EDT

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Never mind

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:00:57 AM EDT

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We need a DMZ on that border just like Korea.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:03:34 AM EDT

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They surrendered their weapons? That is some bs, why did they not have a striker or MRAP with a 50 and squad of infantry? That is a huge embarrassment IMO and never should have happened

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:06:09 AM EDT

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Trump needs to sack the fuck up and handle this shit

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:09:22 AM EDT

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Could these have been National Guard personnel?
A friend of mine has been on the border twice for guard duty.

The article only states Army soldiers. Not everyone is a TierOneBro.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:09:49 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/20/2019 9:10:20 AM EDT

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Nailed it

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:11:03 AM EDT

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At least none of our men were harmed.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:11:11 AM EDT

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Armed, foreign, military invaders sanctioned by their government. Encroaching on our sovereignty

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:12:08 AM EDT

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It sounds like the two US soldiers handled this the right way under the circumstances. Now Washington needs to handle it the right way. Slap Mexico's dick, send larger and better armed patrols, and if it happens again make damn sure it's our guys that are doing the disarming.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:12:21 AM EDT

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There were 2 American soldiers.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:13:12 AM EDT

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Stop it with your rational thinking!!!!

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:14:16 AM EDT

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Man I’m more stunned that CNN didn’t write an apology piece for the soldiers being in an area that used to be Mexico hundreds of years ago

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:15:40 AM EDT

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:17:15 AM EDT

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Send a larger,more heavily armed group next time...... disarm and arrest the Mexicans next time for illegally entering the US

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:19:27 AM EDT

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The fact that this happened in Texas is a huge fucking deal.

There are plenty of places along the international border where the Mexicans (or maybe the Americans) could be confused about which side of the border they were on. In Texas, the border is a fucking River. Not much room for doubt.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:21:01 AM EDT

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Could these have been National Guard personnel?
A friend of mine has been on the border twice for guard duty.

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Do you think any US Soldier in this circumstance would be authorized to engage in combat in this circumstance?

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:21:19 AM EDT

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If you arrest them, they will just claim they are refugees. By next month they will be living in the midwest on welfare in a section 8 house. All paid for by you.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:21:38 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/20/2019 9:22:07 AM EDT

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Sure they were escorting a drug shipment

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:23:01 AM EDT

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We don't send children to war. We send professional trained adult volunteers.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:23:34 AM EDT

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The fact that a foreign nations military can and do make routine military incursions on to US soil is another reason we need a wall, this is a matter of national security that should mandate it.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:23:37 AM EDT

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We're building one.

$1 billion in contracts awarded by the Pentagon.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:25:18 AM EDT

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If this is true someone's ass needs to be kicked.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:26:07 AM EDT

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How else will the drug convoy get through? They've been doing this for years.

Kharn

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:26:17 AM EDT

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Place is a dump just like Mexico.

I loved that place as a kid going from NY to FL. When I was a adult in the army stationed at Ft. Bragg I would go by it on my way to mertle and decided it was not so cool any more and was super trashy.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:27:00 AM EDT

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There were 2 American soldiers.

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They surrendered their weapons? That is some bs, why did they not have a striker or MRAP with a 50 and squad of infantry? That is a huge embarrassment IMO and never should have happened

There were 2 American soldiers.

That is the point, they should have been at least a squad in a marked US military vehicle not an unmarked SUV with two guys and one handgun

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:27:03 AM EDT

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This should have been first post!!!

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Posted: 4/20/2019 9:27:53 AM EDT

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Sounds like an act of war to me.

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Why would you wish that on his kid? Trivial border incident or not, it seems pretty shitty to wish that on someone.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:27:55 AM EDT

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FM.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:28:00 AM EDT

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Lol they were probably MPs

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:32:41 AM EDT

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Wow, Double the underscore, double the derp.

1. We don't have children in our military

2. we have an all volunteer military

3. It was hardly trivial

4. if your point is that we should do nothing because someone's offspring might get hurt or killed in the process, that my friend is called cowardice.

5. the only thing worse than war is the belief that nothing is worth fighting for.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:37:22 AM EDT

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It sounds like the two US soldiers handled this the right way under the circumstances. Now Washington needs to handle it the right way. Slap Mexico's dick, send larger and better armed patrols, and if it happens again make damn sure it's our guys that are doing the disarming.

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That and more importantly cut a 100 million of the aid to Mexico and lock the border for a week in the area each time. Announce the financial penalty and weeks closure to assess security.

We all know the Mexican Army was simply getting a drug delivery through as contracted. No need to sugar coat it. In reality, there is no need for the Mex army to be on the border with the US. It’s not like we are smuggling to Mexico. Surely they should be on their own southern border but the cartel isn’t paying for that, ostensibly the Mexican army is there to cut down on border crime. In fact they are their to control and facilitate it.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:38:51 AM EDT

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If I didn't have to be worried about the US government not backing me up, I'd go down to the border with my own gear and secure about 600 yards worth of it myself.

Just have local volunteers bring me water, food and ammo.

And I'd do this for a pittance of money, like $12 an hour..

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:41:22 AM EDT

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"Surrendered their weapons..."

Probably didn't have ammo, either, but that wasn't added. Kinda like all the Guardsmen standing around airports on 9-12 ... all for show.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:41:59 AM EDT

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Cuz command is afraid of being relived for something stupid so they don’t give them ammo or anything bigger than an M4. Hopefully this actually does bite an officer in the ass but I doubt it.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:43:02 AM EDT

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Sounds like an act of war to me.

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That is about the shittiest overreaction post I have ever read on here.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:43:27 AM EDT

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Direct link: https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/04/19/politics/mexican-troops-american-soldiers-border/index.html

Without the Freerepublic.com referral tag, please clean it up OP @TheRealGhurkaDin

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:44:34 AM EDT

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About 115% chance of this

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:44:48 AM EDT

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The fact that this happened in Texas is a huge fucking deal.

There are plenty of places along the international border where the Mexicans (or maybe the Americans) could be confused about which side of the border they were on. In Texas, the border is a fucking River. Not much room for doubt.

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That could very well be dry....

And let's be honest. We violate the hell out of sovereign nations, this is pretty darn trivial in comparison. Not like they crashed a Blackhawk in someones yard, or overflew a spy plane, or were out catching meth manufacturers in the midwest.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:46:43 AM EDT

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Concur.

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:47:06 AM EDT

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Well, that was uncalled for......

Posted: 4/20/2019 9:48:17 AM EDT

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That could very well be dry....

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The fact that this happened in Texas is a huge fucking deal.

There are plenty of places along the international border where the Mexicans (or maybe the Americans) could be confused about which side of the border they were on. In Texas, the border is a fucking River. Not much room for doubt.

That could very well be dry....

MMMMMmmmmmm no, not right now it's not.

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