First Guard troops to start work at Mexican border

“The first of about 6,000 National Guard troops ordered to bolster patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border will start work Monday as a 55-member detachment from Utah begins working on projects in southern Arizona, a Guard spokesman said.

Members of the 116th Construction Support Equipment Company and elements of the 1457th and 489th engineering companies had been scheduled for several months to conduct their two-week annual unit training near the San Luis, Arizona, border crossing, said Maj. Hank McIntire, a Utah National Guard spokesman.”

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