I know that by withdrawing our troops the military equipment suppliers will not like it, but hey, I don't like spending my money defending someone who hates me, so tough luck for the suppliers. If you station a soldier every half mile along the United States border that would require 24,000 troops. Every quarter mile would require 48,000 troops. These troops would be stationed 400 yards inside the United States border and be authorized to shoot anything that comes from the South. The reasoning for the standing order to shoot is that since the soldier is 400 yards inside the United States border, if someone is within a few hundred yards of the soldier, then that someone is already trespassing on United States soil. This standing order should be enough to convince even the dumbest illegal that getting shot is not worth trying to cross the U.S. Border!
If you agree with me, then call, write, and phone your local and federal representatives and tell (don't ask them) to pull all National Guard troops who are serving outside the United States back to this country. That way they could actually be guarding our country, which is what they should be doing.
Our border with Mexico is roughly 2,000 miles long. If you station a soldier every half mile along that border that would be 4,000 troops every eight hours for a total of 12,000 per day. Have them work an eight hour shift so they can go home and see their families. Since they need to rest, have another 12,000 troops (for a total of 24,000) as part of a rotation that would divide the troops into two groups (ex: A and B). Both groups would work 4 days per week on the border and then spend one day doing local town infrastructure repair and clean up. They would get two days off during the two week rotation. Each group would get two Sundays off each month, and no town related work would be done on Sundays. If you station the soldiers every quarter mile that would require 48,000 troops.
The table gives a possible rotation schedule. Neither group would get Saturday off in order to offer double protection that day. This may not be a factor (?), so it could be possible to make the overlapping day a different one each week by changing the start day of the work week by one day every two weeks. If there is no need for a double shift on the border, then the rotation in the second part of the table could be used to give town repair work 4 days per week.
B = Border T= Town Work O = Days Off
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| Group A Wk 1 | O | B | B | B | T | B | O | O | B | B | B | T | B | O |
| Group B Wk 1 | B | O | O | T | B | B | B | B | O | O | T | B | B | B |
| Group A Wk 2 | B | O | O | T | B | B | B | B | O | O | T | B | B | B |
| Group B Wk 2 | O | B | B | B | T | B | O | O | B | B | B | T | B | O |
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| Group A Wk 1 | O | B | T | B | T | B | O | O | B | T | B | T | B | O |
| Group B Wk 1 | B | O | B | T | B | T | B | B | O | B | T | B | T | B |
| Group A Wk 2 | B | O | B | T | B | T | B | B | O | B | T | B | T | B |
| Group B Wk 2 | O | B | T | B | T | B | O | O | B | T | B | T | B | O |
So, with 24,000 or 48,000 troops we could guard our own country and help border cities repair their infrastructure! The temporary lift to the local economies would be huge.
