US military personnel ordered to paint border barriers to improve 'aesthetic appearance'

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Source: The Hill

United States military personnel deployed near the U.S.-Mexico border have reportedly been assigned to paint certain barrier structures to strengthen their “aesthetic appearance.”

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Twitter Wednesday afternoon that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) informed Congress that troops are going to spend the next month painting barriers and that “the primary purpose is to improve the aesthetic appearance.”

“A disgraceful misuse of taxpayer $$,” Durbin said on Twitter. “Our military has more important work to do than making Trump’s wall beautiful.”

DHS pointed to the benefits of painting border structures in its notification to Congress, noting painting border barriers in Tucson, Arizona, helped Border Patrol agents combat "camouflaging tactics of illegal border crossers" who tried to escape detection, CBS News reported.

DHS added that migrants appear to have more difficulty climbing painted barriers.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/447215-us-military-personnel-ordered-to-paint-border-barriers-to-improve

[trueblue2007]

1. ha ha ha ha ha .... TRUMP YOU LOSER

[yonder]

2. Let me guess: Gold paint

[House of Roberts]

3. What color goes best on...

Concertina wire?

[LakeArenal]

4. Hell red.

[Miigwech]

5. Wow! Is this the best use of our military?

[cstanleytech]

6. How does paint stop them from using a tunnel or coming in like most people that are here illegally

which is by getting a visa and then staying past the expiration?

[sandensea]

19. But it does keep the Chumpkins happy.

Using the troops as props for his 2020 campaign, is second nature to the fat bastard.

[burrowowl]

7. Rainbow colors or

army drab?

[EveHammond13]

8. I volunteer to paint. I might get creative.

[jmowreader]

9. No, I don't think that'll be necessary

The Baptist ministers and grade school teachers of the world might get upset if you paint a row of naked Donald Trumps complete with minima manus and nanopenis.

[EveHammond13]

10. FUCK YOU TRUMP! EAT SHIT! It is aesthetically pleasing....to me.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Hold off on that for another month.

Then the troops can sweat their nuts off in the Arizona summer heat doing something completely pointless.

I seem to recall these are mostly select individuals who wanted this duty. These soldiers are about to learn the first rule of the military: "never volunteer for anything".

[Judi Lynn]

12. Oh, for chrissakes. So damned hateful. Hard to believe anyone could be so petty.

It's all about him. His barrier needs to look nice because people will connect it with him. Jeezus. Why doesn't HE look nice?

[TeamPooka]

13. New military motto: "We came, we saw, we beautified." nt

[not fooled]

14. Jesus H. Christ

Anything to keep the "wall" and border "issues" in the news. All to scare his racist, dimwitted followers about the "scary" border.

[Achilleaze]

15. When republicans put a five-time draft dodger in charge

of our military, and he commenced to debase the military, it came as no surprise.

Feeble (R)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. Are they painting both sides of the wall?

"DHS: migrants appear to have more difficulty climbing painted barriers." Yes, they probably have to wait until the paint dries. DHS should really hire some stable geniuses (genii?).

[Maxheader]

17. kinda rusty looking...are they going to sand blast first?

[usaf-vet]

18. The phrase "US military personnel ordered to paint" brought back this memory.

Circa 1967 on a military base in the south which had been snowed on. We the "military personnel" of the base were ordered by the base commander to do the following to prepare for an IG (Inspector General) inspection scheduled for the next day.

1. paint the leaves on the Palmetto trees that lined the entrance to the base.
2. turn over the "dirty" snow along the entrance so that it was clean white snow.

Try and picture that! Freshly painted green Palmetto trees with clean white snow underneath.

I assumed we passed because the base is still in full operation ~52 years later. I'll bet the Palmetto trees eventually died.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Great use of our military

[jmowreader]

21. You know the Army motto

“If it moves, pick it up. If it doesn’t move, paint it.”

[EX500rider]

22. I heard it as-If it moves,salute it,if it doesn't move, pick it up,if you can't pick it up, paint it

[area51]

23. Let me get this straight,

we don't have enough money to spend on infrastructure or Medicare for All, etc, but we have the money for this?

[haele]

24. There was a saying at boot camp.

If it moves, salute it, if it doesn't, paint it.

If you're planning on painting a large amount of useless barrier material, you can't get much more if an experienced workforce to do so than lower enlisted in the military.

Not that it isn't one of the most stupid explainations I've heard for sending troops to the border.... migrants have a harder time crossing a painted barrier? Really?

Haele

[JonLP24]

25. Sounds like a shit detail

[RDANGELO]

26. The brass hates it when the troops have nothing to do.

If they have nothing to do then they will train; if they can't train, then they will find busy work.