MCALLEN, Texas— Texas National Guard command and staff personnel, assigned to Joint Task Force Lone Star, conducted the first of several partner state operational in-briefs across the south Texas border region this week. The state National Guards included Florida, Missouri and Tennessee.
The three partner states conducted a pre-deployment site survey alongside JTF Lone Star leadership. A PDSS is an assessment conducted by military personnel to understand a site’s characteristics prior to a deployment of forces.
The site surveys were conducted in Eagle Pass and the Rio Grande Valley areas of operation. The process began with command and staff style briefing to ensure a smooth transition into task force areas of responsibility. Then, JTF leadership conducted area familiarization along key locations of the Texas-Mexico border likely to be under the responsibility of incoming partner states. The leadership of the visiting states will take the information back to their organic units and prepare them for deployment onto the US-Mexico border.
The first three partner guard units are expected to be part of over ten participating states as outlined by Gov. Greg Abbott in a press conference earlier this month. Abbott hosted an envoy of governors, many of which pledged National Guard support in the coming months to border security in Texas. The units will rotate in and out of areas identified for high illegal crossing traffic and criminal activity to support JTF Lone Star.
The Texas National Guard, in conjunction with interagency and multi-state partners, is dedicated to preventing illegal migrant crossings from Mexico to the US and stopping cross-border illicit narcotics trafficking.
| Date Taken: | 02.14.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 03.19.2024 12:04 |
| Story ID: | 465904 |
| Location: | MCALLEN, TEXAS, US |
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