Testifying for the Texas Senate Committee on Border Security today, newly inaugurated Adjutant General Thomas Suelzer told State Sens. Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), Chuy Hinojosa (D-McAllen), and Bob Hall (R-Edgewood) that at the current operational pace, funding for...
On February 5, a soldier deployed to Operation Lone Star walked into an aid station seeking mental healthcare. The soldier said that for the last couple of days, he’d been staring down the barrel of his gun, contemplating suicide. Another report outlines how a female...
Texas has been detaining illegal immigrants at an increased clip, but what happens after they are detained? A Texas Scorecard investigation of how illegal immigrants are being processed revealed an opaque self-dealing and self-sabotaging process. Since December, the...
On Monday, Texas DSHS retweeted a graphic from the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC MMWR), which proclaims, “A good mask helps you and others avoid COVID!” A good mask helps you and others avoid COVID! A new @CDCMMWR study shows...
This article has been updated since publication with a statement from the Texas Military Department. Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star program at the Texas-Mexico border continues to be plagued with issues and questions. On Wednesday, sources told Texas Scorecard...
Documentation obtained by Texas Scorecard shows problems—similar to the problems that surfaced during Operation Lone Star—were identified in Texas’ military during the 2017 Hurricane Harvey relief operation. Instead of those problems being fixed, they appear to have...
A recent Texas Military Department (TMD) press release countering reported issues plaguing Operation Lone Star (OLS) is being disputed by retired service members, as well as a recording of a meeting obtained by Texas Scorecard where multiple concerns (such as pay and...
Internal recordings of recent town halls held within the Texas military show a high number of soldiers are at risk of being discharged due to federal vaccine mandates. A Texas military leader expressed little hope that the strategy Gov. Greg Abbott has chosen (relying...
After stonewalling inquiries for two months, Gov. Greg Abbott said last week that he knew of only 84 pay issues for Texas soldiers. That same day, a source provided Texas Scorecard with a spreadsheet outlining 545 Texas soldiers with pay issues. This file raises...
A day after Texas Scorecard reported ongoing pay issues related to Operation Lone Star (OLS), the Texas Military Department (TMD) admitted, “there are still numerous pay issues.” This contradicts what Gov. Greg Abbott claimed days earlier when he said “all paycheck...
Texas soldiers are unnecessarily entangled in a train wreck of layered bureaucracies, political issues, staff turnover, and IT headaches. Issues in paying troops, identified last year, persist. As we previously reported, Operation Lone Star (OLS) is part of Gov. Greg...
In March, Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star and deployed the Texas National Guard to the border following a surge in illegal immigration. Now, problems are plaguing the Texas Military Department, and Abbott’s inconsistency is leaving the Guard floundering....
Shortly after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, he had a full-blown border crisis on his hands. Though the administration appeared content to ignore its issues on the southern border, even typically friendly outlets reported border crossings had jumped to the...
Updated 12/8/21 to reflect the deadline for Texas Air National Guard members to receive the vaccine. On Tuesday, the Texas Military Department conveyed to leadership within the Texas Army National Guard that their members would be required to receive a COVID-19...
