Civil engineering airmen of the Kansas Air National Guard’s 184th Air Refueling Wing constructed 2,009 feet of fencing in Arizona along the border with Mexico during their two-week deployment to assist the Border Patrol. The Kansas City Star reports that the feat exceeded the work of seven previous National Guard civil engineering units.
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…
