No. If anything, those 5,000 troops being sent to the Texas border when the caravan 1,000 miles away is headed towards California and they're being sent to the border over Thanksgiving and potentially over Christmas is, if anything, it's going to bring down the troops moral.
Duckworth argues that sending troops to the border is a political move that negatively affects troop morale.
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