EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Nearly 120 New Mexico National Guardsmen from the 126th Military Police Company have departed for a one-year federal active-duty deployment to the southern border in Texas to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The New Mexico National Guard said they will become part of Joint Task Force-Southern Border and will be doing a “routine rotation” to replace other units currently serving along the border. The NM National Guard did not say where its troops would be seeing duty along the border.
The 126th spent this year’s annual training preparing for this mission with exercises in convoy operations, vehicle and foot patrols, and land navigation during both day and night operations, the New Mexico National Guard said in a news release…