4um: Border Weekend

Title: Border Weekend
Source: ME
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Published: Dec 18, 2006
Author: 82Marine89
Post Date: 2006-12-18 20:31:39 by 82Marine89
Ping List: *The Border*
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Views: 1471
Comments: 108

I've been to the border quite a few times since my last thread, but this one is worth posting.

On Friday night, there was only one other guy there, so we decided to fire up the truck and do some sight seeing at night. We drove past some known pick-up points and lo and behold, we come across a group of twenty future democrat voters. A call to the Border Patrol ensured that they would get to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones.

From there, we went to another known crossing area and set up an observation post. The air was crisp, the sky was clear, and the temperature had a pucker factor of 8. Heard lots of noises, but the cold got the best of us and we went to the Indian casino for their buffet and to have a few beers.

Saturday morning two more showed up, our radio operator, a very sweet 72 y/o women that makes our safety in the field better due to her knowledge of coding coordinates and her ability to handle numerous teams in the field and get reports to the BP as required and another search member. Since it is the holiday season, this was our weekend crew.

We left at 0800 to cover the BP shift change and were able to send another 22 home for the holidays. The coyotes know when the BP changes shifts and that is when they make their moves. What screws up their day is civilians trying to do the job that our government won't do. As soon as we popped two groups, our radio operator notified the BP and was able to give some overtime to a few BP agents.

Around 1100, we were hiking some canyons, looking for signs of crossings, and we came across this steep mountainside with something on it. (look for a horizontal white bar at the top, middle of the ridge line)

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After viewing it through binoculars, we realized it was a monument marker. The border between the USA and Mexico.

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Being former Marines, the three of us decide to check it out. We climbed the face of that mountain in about 30 minutes to go take our photos with it.

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It was fun getting there, but once we got there, we didn't feel like going down the way we came up. Instead, we took a 45 minute stroll through Mexico and walked to the end of the ridge line and came down the easy way. The rest of our day was spent driving along the border checking out high points that could be used for observation posts.

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We came across another monument marker. Didn't hike to this one.

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We awoke this morning to 33° temperatures and rain. It rained all night long and kept waking us up about once an hour. Below is a picture of the rain/fog and a picture of the building we operate out of and sleep in.

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We spent today driving around checking out observation sites we want to use starting next year. Providing there is no amnesty.

Well you look like a patriotic American concerned about his country. Keep it up.

Have you ever been in the service? Have you aver done anything besides look down your nose at people and poster your nasty self as a pious, righteous Christian?

You are worthless as the day is long. You don't fool me one iota. You care about posturing, not actually doing anything selflesly for anyone else.

Not sure why you posted that to FM, pal. I can tell you that although he and I have differences on certain areas, he's here a lot, contributes a lot, and we think of him as family. If that was intended as some kind of threat, you've just reduced your credibility here to zero, and permanently.

Yeah mother fucker, come out to Eugene and I'll br glad to givve an asshole like you some of that.

Please forgive the language and spelling, Mike's a third grader living in the slums with his single drug addicted mom.

Well, apparently Mike responded to the video in the manner the poster intended. I suppose you favor raising the intellectual bar to the level where we're talking about "kicking each other's asses" or "whacking a guy with a stick while wearing a mask"?

I've got a great site for you. It's called "liberty post". That kind of thing is the norm there.

Mike is crabby and recovering from a bad cold. He worked ten hours doing order entry barely able to keep up with the information he had to transcribe to get fruit and other goodies to people from Harry and David, then had to do his contract work that gives him his usual income.

He also hates Stone. What in the world are we ever going to do with that bastard? ;-)

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