Why small guns have been critical to layered CUAS architectures
Multiple countries have been deploying small arms as the last line of drone defence due to their multiple operational and tactical advantages.
Pentagon to prepare military bases for migrant children
The Pentagon will prepare to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on military bases, a US military spokesman said on 21 June.
The decision follows a request from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ‘to determine its capabilities to provide up to 20,000 temporary beds for unaccompanied alien children at DoD (Department of Defense) installations,’ Pentagon spokesman Jamie Davis told AFP.
The request came one day after US President Donald Trump moved to end the practice of splitting migrant families, with over 2,300 children recently separated from their parents under a ‘zero tolerance’ policy.
But the US government has also been examining whether it can use military bases to house the far greater number of unaccompanied children who routinely cross the US border from Mexico.
HHS had been considering for weeks the possibility of using military bases in the southern US – three in Texas and one in Arkansas – to house unaccompanied minors.
But while those four bases ‘have been visited by HHS for possible housing, it doesn't mean any or all children would be housed there,’ Davis said.
Davis added: ‘HHS and DoD are working closely to determine the requirements and timing for support. Secretary Mattis' guidance has been clear: that the DoD will support our federal partners.’
In an executive order, Trump instructed the DoD on 20 June to make available existing facilities to house migrant families, or to build new ones if necessary.
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