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Remember both president bush and president obama deployed troops to that boarder and we've had troops there since the spring on another operation. i'm sure they'd rather be home with their families. but i'm fine having troops on our southern border. >> drirts moralizing. look, i had concerns of the national guard to the border. er for that's one issue. but active duty soldiers to the boarder. 7,000 active duty and national guard. that's more than the number of service members in iraq and syria combined. half the number in afghanistan. those are real threats. secretary mattis, i think he must h...

Was made public but since the election the message from top brass dropped the name. >> i had given instructions, i do not want to put this mission in some arcain military terms. if what we're doing is laying wire, don't talk about implementing a barrier plan. >> reporter: five of the 39 units deployed are public affairs units, suggesting the pentagon knows this is more about messaging. the order signed by secretary mattis stand to expire on december 15th but those orders could be extended, julie. >> julie: jennifer griffin, thank you very much. let's bring in general jack keane, fox senior str...