Below is a summary of a situation report that one of the units on the border sent to brigade headquarters in Colorado last month. ‘Assigned wall section completed’As of the middle of March, the unit had completed work on more than 14 miles of wall. But some parts of it had already been breached, and a strange rivalry was brewing between the soldiers and a Marine unit working on an adjacent portion of the wall. “Welding capabilities of other units leave much to be desired,” the report says. As described in military documents, UGR-Es offer “an alternative to individual meals as the sole source of subsistence in austere, remote locations.”

Source: New York Times April 05, 2019 17:03 UTC