Isn't Harlingen quite a ways away from Brownsville? Why the long distance transport for emergency services?
I'll bet BP saved his butt from the drug cartel.
From Brownsville, just go northwest on US 77 for maybe 25-30 miles, and you're in Harlingen. Did you know that the Marine Corps Memorial, just outside Arlington National Cemetery, is based on a sculpture at the Marine Military Academy, in Harlingen? Also, Marine Harlon Bloch (the one at the base of the pole) was from Weslaco (about 15 miles west of Harlingen, off route 83)?
"...swam across the Rio Grande near El Calaboz,..."
EL CALABOZ, TEXAS. El Calaboz is a dispersed colonia off U.S. Highway 281 and just north of the Mexican border, six miles south of San Benito in south central Cameron County. The site was settled in the late 1940s and by 1970 had fifty-three residences. In 1986 an estimated population of 162 lived in thirty-six homes. The name comes from Spanish calabozo, "calaboose" or "jailhouse."
He was closer to Harlingen