FORT CARSON, Colo. (KXRM) — On Saturday, the U.S. Northern Command introduced that 2,400 troopers from Fort Carson are deploying to the southern border to help the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety and Customs and Border Safety in sustaining safety on the southern border.
The troops are from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Fight Staff, 4th Infantry Division, and they’re going to be a part of items already supporting the FY2025 DHS request for help on the border.
2nd SBCT will perform duties together with detection and monitoring, administrative assist, transportation assist, warehousing and logistic assist, automobile upkeep, and engineering assist. Duties is not going to embody interdiction or deportation operations.
“These deployments will deliver extra agility and functionality to additional efforts to cease the stream of unlawful migrancy and medicines on the southern border,” stated Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, United States Northern Command.
Along with the 2nd SBCT, round 500 troopers from the third Fight Aviation Brigade from Fort Stewart, Georgia, in addition to the nineteenth Public Affairs Detachment from Fort Riley, Kansas might be offering assist.
These items will deliver the variety of Title 10 forces alongside the southern border to round 9,000. The final time Stryker’s supplied assist to the southern border was in 2012.
