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Pentagon, FAA sign agreement on deploying anti-drone laser system near Mexico
The agreement came after the FAA conducted testing in New Mexico on the laser system used by the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department.
By David Shepardson, Reuters
How the border wall work-stop could affect troop deployments
Officials have said that more wall will mean fewer troops, but construction has hit a snag.
Judge halts $3.6B diverted from military construction projects for border wall
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from spending some Defense Department money to build a border wall with Mexico, the latest twist in a long-running legal battle over one of the president’s signature domestic issues and campaign priorities.
Critics renew push to end military deployment to southern U.S. border
House Democrats don't want the controversy surrounding the military mission on U.S. soil to be forgotten.
White House says it will prevent government shutdown on this one condition
To avoid a government shutdown, U.S. President Donald Trump would sign a stopgap spending bill, but there are strings attached.
By Joe Gould
Trump’s use of military money for border wall survives Senate test
The Senate voted Thursday to sustain President Donald Trump’s veto of Democratic-sponsored legislation reversing his raid of military base project money to pay for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
By Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press
About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says
The Army Corps of Engineers awarded about $2.5 billion in projects in April and May to build 129 miles of the border wall in New Mexico, Arizona and California.
By Military Times staff
450 miles of Pentagon-funded border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts
On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
Visiting Seabees, Asian-American war hero gives what may be ‘final’ talk
The ailing 94-year-old veteran spoke to a group of U.S. Navy Seabees last month in Gallup, New Mexico, about his life and service and was given a hero's salute after he finished.
DoD has obligated $450 million since April 2018 to send troops to US-Mexico border
The Pentagon is funding another section of the border wall, but Defense Secretary Mark Esper wouldn't say whether the project could be completely executed by the military.
Troops to get medals for US-Mexico border operations and Hurricane Florence relief
The Armed Forces Service Medal is awarded to service members who participate in an “operation deemed to be significant activity, and encounter no foreign armed opposition or imminent threat of hostile action."
By Shawn Snow