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101st Airborne Division soldiers deploy to southern border

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Sep 3, 2025

The new Mexican Border Defense Medal, with a green and yellow ribbon.

Pentagon releases design for Mexican Border Defense Medal

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Aug 23, 2025

Mexican Border Defense Medal

Troops deployed to the US-Mexico border will get a new medal

By Jeff Schogol, Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Aug 19, 2025

Crews install a three-ton, 30-foot barrier panel at the Barry M. Goldwater Range along the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, Arizona, March 3, 2020. BMGR 10-27 includes 31 miles of border barrier. USACE is providing direction and oversight for Department of Defense (DOD)-funded construction of border barrier projects from California to Texas. These projects are being executed by USACE, as directed through the U.S. Army by the Secretary of Defense, in response to the Presidential national emergency declaration dated Feb. 15, 2019, requiring the use of the armed forces and authorizing the use of Title 10, U.S. Code, § 2808. (Some personal and corporate identifiable markings have been masked for privacy reasons. No one in this photo crossed the international border).

Pentagon shifts $200 million from barracks, schools, facilities to border wall

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Jul 25, 2025

Two ex-U.S. soldiers met in Ukraine, then went on ‘international crime spree’

Two ex-U.S. soldiers met in Ukraine, then went on ‘international crime spree’

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Jun 3, 2024

Pentagon extends deployment of 400 troops along US-Mexico border

Pentagon extends deployment of 400 troops along US-Mexico border

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Sep 5, 2023

Troops on the border

Pentagon sending 1,500 active-duty troops to US-Mexico border

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on May 2, 2023

US troops are stuck on the Mexico border with no end in sight

US troops are stuck on the Mexico border with no end in sight

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on May 20, 2021

Air Force vet who tried to help Trump build border wall with GoFundMe campaign indicted for tax fraud

Air Force vet who tried to help Trump build border wall with GoFundMe campaign indicted for tax fraud

Updated on May 7, 2021

Biden orders Pentagon to stop paying for Trump’s border wall

Biden orders Pentagon to stop paying for Trump’s border wall

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on Jan 22, 2021

The US military’s deployment to the southern border was just extended for another year

The US military’s deployment to the southern border was just extended for another year

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Jun 25, 2020

The Pentagon is sacrificing F-35s and other weapons systems to find $3.8 billion to fund the border wall

The Pentagon is sacrificing F-35s and other weapons systems to find $3.8 billion to fund the border wall

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 14, 2020

Video shows mass arrest of 16 Marines at Camp Pendleton on human smuggling charges

Video shows mass arrest of 16 Marines at Camp Pendleton on human smuggling charges

By Paul Szoldra

Posted on Nov 8, 2019

Mexico rejects Trump’s offer to help destroy the drug cartels that massacred a Mormon family

Mexico rejects Trump’s offer to help destroy the drug cartels that massacred a Mormon family

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Nov 5, 2019

Up to 5,500 US troops will keep deploying to the southwest border through September 2020

Up to 5,500 US troops will keep deploying to the southwest border through September 2020

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Oct 14, 2019

Trump reportedly wants some real Dr. Evil sh*t at the US-Mexico border

Trump reportedly wants some real Dr. Evil sh*t at the US-Mexico border

By Jared Keller

Posted on Oct 2, 2019