Death, drugs and a disbanded unit: How the Guard’s Mexico border mission fell apart

LTC Eugene Chu
..."Three soldiers had died in three months, the most recent in an alleged DUI just five days earlier, and more than a dozen troops from the mission had been arrested or confined for drugs, sexual assault and manslaughter.

“Someone please wave the white flag and send us all home,” the letter pleaded. “I would like to jump off a bridge headfirst into a pile of rocks after seeing the good ol’ boy system and fucked up leadership I have witnessed here.”

The unit never found the author.

The letter was provided to Army Times by another anonymous soldier, who like others for this article, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss equipping, staffing and misconduct issues plaguing the border mission."...

Lack of leadership and purpose are deadly to the mission @LTC Eugene Chu

Thank goodness they were properly diverse. That’s the current objective of our forces.