Mattis calls deployment to border "great training" as he visits troops in Texas

Units of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army based at Fort Hood, Texas move south along U.S. 281 in Blanco County as convoys of troops head to the Texas-Mexico border on orders of President Donald Trump. Bob Daemmrich/BDP, Inc.Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described the deployment to the border as “great training” and told active-duty soldiers in Texas not to pay attention to the news coverage of the operation because they would “go nuts.”Mattis and Homeland Securit