This whole thing has been a travesty, but then, what else is new with statewide politics in Texas? Abbott is demanding lengthy deployments within a geographically huge state and upending these “part-time” servicemembers’ lives, yet somehow also half-assing everything. They have no clear mission. They have no reasonable facilities. They have no productive coordination with federal resources (because this whole thing is an exclusively federal mandate). It’s all fucked, because the primary-voting GOP base actively hates brown people and the rest of the party couldn’t give a shit about anyone who doesn’t vote for them.