PANCHOVILLA RIDES AGAIN--Mattis, the Border & the Bandit--PENTAGON HONCHO AND THE FACTS

 14 November 2018

ATTN CD//TACNET  VIA JC//COC AMBUSH/PATROL  THE BORDER AND THE BANDIT

(Camp Donna Messhall)-- Following the Secretary of Defense's visit to the Forward Operation Base near McAllen today, it brought to life once again a very illustrious time in American history and its relation to its neighbor to the south. In fact, the General may have his facts a bit crossed as to who sent troops to the border and what happened next.

Washington Post (Paul Sonne Nov 14, 2018)--

During the flight to Texas, Mattis described the operation as a “moral and ethical mission to support our border patrolmen” and cited previous military operations on the border, dating back to President Woodrow Wilson’s deployment of the U.S. Army there to counteract Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa’s forces. (1) 


President Taft, in 1911, was the first to address the issue of the border with the deployment of three brigades to Texas and elsewhere:  (2)

The United States incursion into Mexico in 1916 was a result of a raid by Villa's forces into New Mexico in March and was led by General Pershing by orders of President Wilson.

The incursion into Mexico in pursuit of Villa was what General Mattis referred to, not the border buildup by President Taft many years earlier. Was this a Freudian slip, a giveaway of some dark plans to invade Mexico in pursuit of some new threat, the ghost of Pancho Villa perhaps? Stay up to date on the story on R2A...


Supporting Documents

(1)  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mattis-calls-deployment-to-the-border-great-training-as-he-visits-troops-in-texas/2018/11/14/b2e27070-e83e-11e8-bd89-eecf3b178206_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6690025b8699
(2) New York Times, 08 March, 1911.
(3) Salt Lake Telegram,   January 18, 1916