Civilian employees within the Pentagon will soon be deployed to the Department of Homeland Security to assist with border security efforts, as well as immigration enforcement within the country.
The move was disclosed in a memo issued Monday by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to senior Pentagon leadership, defense agency and Pentagon field activity directors and military commanders but did not provide specifics regarding job duties and missions in which the employees would participate.
The memo did state that “detail assignments may be either reimbursable or non-reimbursable,” meaning paid or unpaid. Unpaid assignments would be authorized “where the expected benefit of a detail would be comparable to training or development programs that otherwise would be conducted at a DoD Component’s expense.”
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