>American Troops at Border Won’t Have Guns, Mattis Says
>Mr. Mattis mentioned one possible instance in which troops might act: defending a border agent who was hit by a rock, and detaining the migrant who threw it. But asked whether such a situation might call for the American soldier to be armed, the defense secretary unequivocally said it would not.
“No,” he said. “Not with a firearm.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/troops-migrants-border-force.html
Maybe notable.
This is a bullshit and purely political decision.
The kind that get our people killed. Remember Lebanon early 80s.