Death, drugs and a disbanded unit: How the Guard's Mexico border mission fell apart
On the evening of Sept. 10, a soldier deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border slid a manifesto under each door in his brigade headquarters and then slipped away.
The frustrated Army National Guardsman assigned to the 110th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade headquarters had seen enough.
Three soldiers had died in three months, the most recent in an alleged DUI just five days earlier, and more than a dozen troops from the mission had been arrested or confined for drugs, sexual assault and manslaughter.
Someone please wave the white flag and send us all home, the letter pleaded. I would like to jump off a bridge headfirst into a pile of rocks after seeing the good ol boy system and fucked up leadership I have witnessed here.
The unit never found the author.
The letter was provided to Army Times by another anonymous soldier, who like others for this article, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss equipping, staffing and misconduct issues plaguing the border mission.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/12/08/death-drugs-and-a-disbanded-unit-how-the-guards-mexico-border-mission-fell-apart/
underpants
(182,848 posts)Good article thanks
sarge43
(28,941 posts)One third of the unit under disciplinary action and that unit is dysfunctional.
When the troops are being used as political wall paper, they know it and behave accordingly. FTS.
Second the thanks
COL Mustard
(5,908 posts)Please do elaborate!
gab13by13
(21,375 posts)being at our southern border, why do we allow it?
stopdiggin
(11,324 posts)to 'own the libs' (and incidentally be commander in chief). But, not to worry - plenty of that unit (and no doubt their families) voted for the pissant too. And when you ask them which of this leader's policies they "kinda' think is right" - guess which one will pop right up to the head of the list?
Having said that - any unit this poorly run should be disbanded - and leadership discharged.