The unusual use of front-line troops on border comes after Trump ordered the military to give priority to border security.

Hundreds followed in the weeks after. “A lot of them, this would have been their first combat landing,” said Rob Cogan, curator at the U.S. Armor & Cavalry Collection at Fort Moore.

TASS/. Combat aircraft of the 4th Air Force and Air Defense Army thwarted an amphibious and airborne assault force’s landing onto the Crimean coast and destroyed its naval group in drills ...