Two Border Patrol agents shot outside Nogales

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Two Border Patrol agents shot outside Nogales
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3544684&nav=HMO5bfTS


Two Border Patrol agents injured in shooting outside Nogales

Two Border Patrol agents were airlifted to local hospitals Thursday afternoon. Both had been shot.

Investigators are searching for clues and suspects. Sources tell Eyewitness News 4 that there's a possibility a high powered weapon was used to shoot at the border patrol agents.

The agents were airlifted out of a canyon east of Nogales and taken to a Tucson Hospital.

Officials say both were shot in the leg. They received non-life-threatening injuries. They're listed in stable condition.

Border Patrol Spokesman Jose Garza says, "Around 12:30 pm, two of our agents were patroling the area just south from where we're at, about 5 miles east of Nogales. They were assaulted by a number of unknown assailants that we don't have a complete number of how many."

Eyewitness News 4 has learned that the agents returned fire. The assailants make it back into Mexico.

The agents were on foot, checking out sensors on a trail. It's about 1 1/2 miles from the US/Mexico border.

Agent Garza says, "Very remote area of desert, very treacherous. Agents were on foot, away from their vehicles when they got assautled."

For being so remote, it's also considered one of the busiest trails in the Nogales sector.

Agent Garza says, "It's an extremly dangerous area. We have had another shooting that happened in this area a couple of weeks ago...extremly dangerous area."

It's so treacherous that some FBI investigators and Santa Cruz County Sheriffs Dept. had to be airlifted into the canyon where the agents were shot..
 
Prayers and thanks to the two agents.

Sounds like a job for 101st Airborne!! Yeah, yeah, I know: the constitution says...............Gvmt doesn't seem to be paying much atention to the constitution anyway....................
 
They should only send the army if they are willing to allow the army to shoot on sight. They are not police.

Not that I have a big problem with that.
 
The intruders need to keep pushing and push a little harder so we can get this thing on and over with. We haven't played cowboys and mexicans yet.
 
Actually, my battalion commander used to work at JTF 6 out at Fort Bliss, TX. One of his jobs was cajoling units to come train there-the Ft Bliss/White Sands complex has tons of land for training. He'd help them with transportation arrangements, ammo movement/storage, etc.

In return for getting to use the training land, the units would help out runnig 'screen lines' out in the desert, watching for illegal immigrants and drugs smugglers, then reporting them to LE agencies.

Note that running screen lines is a normal military mission, especially for cavalry and scout/recon units. Set up OPs on suspected enemy avenues of approach, and when they appear, report them to 'killer' units further behind the scouts. In this case, the 'killer' units were Border Patrol, DEA, etc.

You can bet that there are troops doing the same mission along the border of Syria and Iraq right now.
 
I worked in the North end of White Sands Missile Range during the early 60s. Out problem then was not illegals coming North, but gun runners coming through the range headed South. We had one incident where we knew a couple of deuce-and-a-halfs were coming down the range from Carrizozo. We intercepted them and had a VERY exciting time. They had knocked over an NG armory up North and had loaded some of the weapons on their trip down. My Security guys had revolvers and the BGs were definitely more strongly armed than we. :banghead: I dropped back to my car and pulled out my 03-A3 and evened things up a little. :D Amazing, what GI AP will do to an engine block.

Pops
 
Please remember....

....they are just honest, hard working, poor, future Democrat voters, who are looking for a safe home and a job to FEED THEIR KIDS. They have no ill intentions, and after all IT'S FOR THE KIDS. [/sarcasm]


:banghead:


All those who support this invasion should go flush their heads down the toilet!


I.C.
 
Couple ghost towns in that area that may be cool to look at but you don't want to be caught there alone and unarmed.
People stash dope in the area and the illegals use the places to hole-up.
That area is still the wild, wild west.
 
The Tucson Sector, and the Nogales station in particular, is the wild west. With little doubt, it's the hottest spot on the southern border. BP Agents have been fired upon from both sides of the border, sometime simultaneously.

I heard, from a couple trusted sources, that the was an ambush.
 
I wonder how many people visited kvoa's website because armored man said Lupita is cute.
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What?... i swear i was just reading the article. no, really. i didn't even look at the video. honstly...
 
Well, up until 1942 we kept the 1st Cav Division on the border.

In the "good old days" we had the Bloody 1, the Rusty 1 and the Dusty 1.

First Infantry Division, First Armored Division, First Cavalry Division.

Maybe we need to bring back the First Cav, make it Air Mobile again and have it specialize in border defense?

Geoff Timm
Who thinks bounty on dead invaders would be a good and cheaper alternative.
 
busted

yep ... busted and totally disappointed in Lupita.

armoredman ... you need to come to Atlanta to redifine you CUTE status.


I like the idea of mining ...
Axe
 
Just about every Border Patrol guy I ran into out in the desert was only armed with a handgun. I think its time they start carrying M-4 variants.
 
Just about every Border Patrol guy I ran into out in the desert was only armed with a handgun. I think its time they start carrying M-4 variants.
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M4s are available to those who want to go through the hassle.
 
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