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Texas National Guard troops who Gov. Greg Abbott sent to the Mexican border for Operation Lone Star describe bad conditions and an unclear mission.

Texas National Guard troops who Gov. Greg Abbott sent to the Mexican border for Operation Lone Star describe bad conditions and an unclear mission.

The governor has sent waves of troops to the border as Guard officials scramble to execute a massive mobilization that would normally take months to plan. Some Guard members say the operation has set back their income, education and well-being.

Deplorable conditions, unclear mission: Texas National Guard troops call Abbott’s rushed border operation a disaster

National guard which has some 14,000 troops here deployed across the state from corpus christi to louisiana line and former officers, more soldiers on the way according to the task force harvey commander who i spoke with a short time ago, who says they will be here for as long as they are needed and they have plenty of assets for rescues, including these high water vehicles that are used to being pulled people out from the worst of the flooding neighborhoods. particularly, and beaumont. the president said earlier today that there are 100,000 homes that have been damaged by the storm and we hav...