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Article snippet: The U.S. military will send more than 5,200 active duty troops to the southern border with Mexico by the end of the week, the Defense Department announced Monday. “By the end of this week will we deploy over 5,200 soldiers to the southwest border. That is just the start of this operation; we’ll continue to adjust the numbers and inform you of those,” U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command head Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy told reporters. The deployment, called Operation Faithful Patriot, will be to “flow in our military with a priority to build up southern Texas, and then Arizona, and then California. . . . to harden the points of entry and address key gaps in areas around the points of entry,” O'Shaughnessy said. The troops will support the thousands of border patrol agents already at the border as part of Operation Secure Line. The troops are also in addition to the 2,092 National Guard troops deployed in April to the border as part of Operation Guardian Support. The troops will come from Fort Bragg, N.C., Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Wash., Fort Stewart, Ga., Fort Campbell, Ky., Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Riley, Kan., among other locations. Defense Secretary MORE ordered the military to send active duty troops to the border in response to a group of several thousand migrants traveling from Central America to the United States. O'Shaughnessy said specific request for assistance “is for the active duty military to enhance the capacity and... Link to the full article to read more