Texas Military Forces

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You know, during that time I, I was still in Texas National Guard, and, uh, I couldn't take it anymore.

Um, and so I actually...

When Operation Lone Star happened w- under Governor Abbott, I volunteered.

If an object of unknown design emitted thermal energy, it would also produce some electrical signature or noise, something that radar or signal detection equipment might pick up.

To that point, the Texas National Guard's routine ground surveillance equipment logged no unusual signals on the date in question, which again leans toward conventional explanations.

Interestingly, a later federal investigation into alleged UAP activity included an analysis of this same incident as part of its dataset.

The Pentagon's UAP task force reviewed the case and concluded that there was insufficient evidence to confirm or refute any claim of alien origin, citing the lack of hard data.

We're California.

Hey." Uh, and so, uh, then Hegseth puts out a, an order that he got permission from Greg Abbott to deploy Texas National Guard to Or- Oregon and Chicago.

So now the judge called this late-night hearing, um, emergency hearing because California and the City of Portland and the State of Oregon are all, um...

They want a second, they wanted a second restraining order saying that the, the DOJ is just circumventing Your Honor's order 'cause the order is grounded in the fact that n- the Guard isn't needed.

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Te- Texas National Guard troops, which just came up minutes before the hearing, you know, she was able to cite those two things as a reason to, uh, you know, issue a, a whole new order as opposed to just modifying the other one.

To have jurisdi- jurisdiction back-

Okay, so let's back up for a second to the start of Operation Lone Star.

Operation Lone Star was this flood the zone initiative from Texas Governor Greg Abbott where he called up the Texas National Guard and he sent a bunch of guardsmen down to the border plus thousands of state troopers from DPS, all to help out with border security.

I know the border is always a hot button issue and now kind of more than ever, but this is not a political podcast.

That said, Operation Lone Star is where this part of our story begins.

Okay.

And I was like, I've been in JSOC, like Texas National Guard, like whatever.

The physical fitness stuff was fine.

Everything else was fine.

And we have to be insisting upon that and making sure that any time the federal government comes in that they are complying with those standards.

And so using the bully pulpit, also making it less profitable for these private prison detention centers, because right now Greg Abbott, he put the Texas National Guard in our detention centers.

They're run by private prisons, CoreCivic and GeoGroup.

and it cuts staffing costs so they can make more money off locking up people.

But eight miles down the white sand shore, in the shadows of 2,400-year-old Greek temples, yes, Greek, ruins even older than ancient Rome, these landing craft carry American boys from the 6th Corps' 36th Infantry Division.

Originally a Texas National Guard unit, they're a well-trained bunch, but green.

When that gate drops, this will be their first battle, and the intention is that striking in the almost still dark with no naval bombardment, they'll have the element of surprise.

But that doesn't seem likely, not with German flares flying in the sky.