That’s the one!
Well, that's one of the ones....
Posted on 10/17/2008 4:17:37 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
EDINBURG — Authorities in South Texas said today that they won't be intimidated by increasingly violent drug smugglers, announcing a larger Border Patrol presence and that more heavily armed deputies will be authorized to return fire across the Mexican border.
Operation "River Freedom Denial" will target areas along the Rio Grande in the southern tip of Texas where violence has risen lately with more ground and air resources, said Border Patrol sector chief Ronald Vitiello.
Standing with a Texas Department of Public Safety captain and the Hidalgo County Sheriff, Vitiello cited an exchange of gunfire between his agents and drug smugglers Monday and another incident this week of a smuggler ramming an agent's truck in making his escape.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said the deputies he will assign to the operation along the river will all be issued fully automatic rifles and authorized to return fire.
"We are not going to be intimidated by the increased aggression," Trevino said.
He recalled an incident in 2006 when more than 300 shots were fired across the river at his deputies and Border Patrol agents. At that time he decided to pull his deputies back from the river for their safety.
Not this time.
"If fired upon we will respond in kind," he said.
Tension along the border has increased this week with a shootout in downtown Matamoros, Mexico across the river from Brownsville, Thursday afternoon and shots fired at or near the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico twice this week. In the first incident, a grenade was lobbed at the consulate that did not explode.
Vitiello and Trevino declined to offer more details about the operation, content with sending a message that law enforcement at all levels along the border is cooperating and will not tolerate violence.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
That’s the one!
Should call it “River freedom of denial”
Shoot, Shovel and SHHHHHH
You don't have to go anywhere. We have been promised that they are coming to us:
We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or five years or fifteen years from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they are going into Dallas, into El Paso, into Houston, into New Mexico, into San Diego, and each one will have embedded in his mind the idea of killing ten Americans."
--Thomas Borge, Nicaragua Interior Minister as quoted in the Washington Times, March 27, 1985
Accordingly, you should be well-prepared to receive visitors or repel boarders, as the case may be, WHEREVER you are-and you need not *enlist*.
That’s the one!
Well, that's one of the ones....
I’ll let YOU set off that W54.........and you know WHY !.....:o)
As to the rest, 33, 44, 48, 79 etc .....they be gone !
As to the rest, 33, 44, 48, 79 etc .....they be gone !
The plan was to leave it behind, most likely in one of our AVLB *scissors bridge* tank chassis-carriers with the hatches thermate welded shut. Most tank battalion engineer bridge support sections had 2 AVLBs, but ours also had an M151 Jeep and a ¾-ton M37 truck. Those were to be our *getaway vehicles.*
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Ummmm we may have to talk someday as there was no getaway......:o)
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