Editorial: Burden of Trump’s border promise falls squarely on military

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS had lost 700 jobs as part of a U.S. Air Force reorganization in 2015 before the Air National Guard announced plans to locate a Cyber Operations Squadron at the facility in Hampton.

Members of Virginia’s congressional delegation joined with state and local officials to celebrate the news, which eased the sting of those job losses. Since cyber operations is a priority of the nation’s armed forces, securing that squadron also meant a more confident outlook for the Peninsula base.

On Wednesday, however, the Pentagon announced that $10 million for a cyber operations facility at Langley-Eustis would be redirected to pay for construction of a barrier along the southern border between the United States and Mexico.