The shortage of personnel and military hardware was created in February when Democratic governors pulled their National Guard troops from the border as a rebuke to President Trump.
Maintenence personel check a Predator drone operated by U.S. Office of Air and Marine, before its surveillance flight near the Mexican border on March 7, 2013 from Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Documents obtained by Newsweek show Defense Department drones and reconnaissance planes remain an option for deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border.Pentagon officials are open to the idea of deploying reconnaissance planes and drones built for war to the U.S.
In another document created last week on August 12, military planners indicated they were going to delete the entry that would have sent drones and fixed-wing surveillance aircraft to the border. The passage labeled,"3.C.12.B.1.," is scheduled to be changed but shows that the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, a U.S. Army aviation unit out of Fort Hood, Texas and currently assigned to the border mission, was scheduled to receive helicopters and drones."As for the aviation support request, at this time, there are six H-60s assigned to this request. There are no UAS [unmanned aerial systems] currently assigned to support this request.
Pentagon officials considered providing U.S. Customs and Border Protection with four MQ-1 Predator drones. The Border Patrol's aviation wing hasThe Pentagon toldin the same report it had decided to deploy 1000 troops and six UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters to the U.S.-Mexico border to backfill the void in personnel left by the National Guard troops in February.
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