NYT: Deployed Inside the United States: The Military Waits for the Migrant Caravan
With little electricity, no combat pay and holidays away from home, the 5,600 American troops on the southwest border are on a mission ordered by a politically determined commander in chief and a Pentagon unable to convince him of its perils.
Thousands of soldiers will miss Thanksgiving with their families to instead play a waiting game that most people agree is “an expensive waste of time and resources, and a morale killer to boot.”
