Spent the last few months in Germany waiting for the arrival of a new grandson. We stayed at Kelly Barracks, a USArmy installation in Stuttgard, The son was vacationing in the north-east mountains of Afganhistan at the time. While we were there the DOD opened a new unified Command down the street from us. It's called Africom, and attends to matters on the continent of Africa. ALL services are represented and full bull Colonels, Navy and Coast Guard Captains are sent out on coffee runs. From what the troops told me, we are in a world war and its being fought in non-traditional ways. The son was sent home for the birth and was wearing a pony tail and full beard when he arrived. Seems as though the friendly natives in those mountains shoot at people who don't look like them! We need our military where the problems are now, or we WILL be using them here. As for placing them on the boarders...The first George Bush had DOD do a study during his term as president to see what it would take to seal just the Mexican border. I won't go into all of the details, but according to the study it would have taken all of the men and women in uniform at that time to include the Reserve and National guard. Then DOD stated that any Mexican with a row boat could defeat that effort by rowing around the end of the fence at either end. This was before the Bush and Clinton force draw downs. Remember history, look at the maps of our coasts and borders and ask yourself how you would close them.
