No Combat Pay. Little Electricity. Just Waiting for the Caravan.

The article reports on the deployment of the U.S. Army along the U.S.-Mexico border, dubbed Operation Faithful Patriot. Topics discussed include final cost estimate of the deployment, argument of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who U.S. President Donald Trump accused of being a Democrat, against politicizing the military, and formal requests of the Department of Homeland Security to the Pentagon in late October 2018 for support in handling immigrants at the southern border.