Posted on 05/04/2017 4:48:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection is casting a wide net to recruit more Border Patrol agents and customs officers to protect the nation's borders.
The agency is recruiting at events like massive music festival Country Thunder and the Professional Bull Riders rodeo....
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It’s Round Up time.
I’ve been seeing TV commercials for this, for months.
Cowboys on the Border. Perfect.
I used to work for ICE in Florence. I’d go back as a BPO but they don’t want an old guy like me.
They need to recruit a bunch of us old retired guys to sit in towers with high powered rifles.
They have been there forever, in fact, from the Arizona Daily International Newspaper, Douglas, Arizona, March 16, 1925:
“The patrol will accept no man unless he is big and strong and fearless.
He must have experience in cowboy work; tracking and general border occupations and he must have had service in some highly organized police unit or in some regular army.
They must be between 23 and 45 years of age and must have had at least three years’ experience in general ranch work along the border. This qualification is necessary because the principle work of these men is border riding, which is done mainly on horseback.
Applicants must measure at least 5 feet 7 inches in height and be well proportional, they must be of good moral character, honest, and courageous.”
Little has changed since then, except for lowering the height in order to be able to hire women (seriously).
My son worked Horse Patrol for the Border Patrol in Arizona and thoroughly loved it. My son said there is nothing better than being on horseback, riding down some illegal aliens and drug smugglers. . .and one evening as the sun was setting he was galloping to intercept some illegals and he went into a small dry creek-bed and there was a herd of wild horses in it. The herd spooked and started galloping in the same direction my son was riding. He said it was beautiful, galloping along in the middle of a heard of wild horses, galloping across the Arizona desert as he pursued the setting sun.
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