TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 11月20日 02時45分

While members of the #migrant caravan rested their feet in Mexico City in early November, President Trump ordered the U.S. military to fan out across the Southwest. Army Captain Charles Matthews, 40, had less than a week to prepare his troops for the deployment. (Usually such orders come with four or five months’ lead time.) Matthews broke the news to about 130 deployable #soldiers: they were going to Arizona and might not be back for the holidays. Unclear on the details, Matthews brought what he thought he might need: bulldozers, excavators, scrapers, rollers and graders, all loaded onto semitrucks and sent off on the 888-mile trek from Fort Hood to Davis-­Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. “We made an assumption that we would be doing horizontal earthwork: improving roads, you know, something in our wheelhouse,” he says. “We came out here and found we were wrong.” It turned out the mission was to tighten security at two border locations in #Nogales. The border fence splits the city in two: one side of town is in the U.S., the other is in #Mexico. It’s made up of 20-ft. steel slats that snake up hills and down into valleys, running parallel to city streets. Instead of land movers and construction equipment, Matthews needed miles of razor wire, brackets to hang the wire from, welding machines to secure the brackets and construction lifts to get his soldiers up and down. Getting the material and equipment was just the start. Only eight of 130 troops knew how to weld. (“By design,” he says, “my company is not trained to weld.”) The baskets on the cherry pickers used to lift the soldiers to the top of the fence weren’t suitable, so #troops had to construct new ones from discarded wooden pallets. Then the team realized the sparks from the welder were falling on taxis parked behind the fence, on the Mexican side of the border. So they draped a 12-ft.-long wet rag from the basket to swallow the sparks. “This is a nonstandard engineering mission,” Matthews says. “But we’re engineers. We solve problems.” Read more, and see more pictures, on TIME.com. Photograph by @meridithkohut for TIME

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