Posted on 03/15/2006 5:03:39 PM PST by SandRat
Nice Huh?!!! 8^)
"It is our goal to have 1/3 of Navy aircraft unmanned by 2010." -- Navy report from 2001.
Ok. I'm sorry. But that's freaking cool!! LOL
The Arizona Guard’s Predator mission is likely to be an evolving thing, depending on need, but the goal is to get initial operations under way in December with about 120 people, Aguirre said.
Nellis AFB BTYTT!
I have toured this base!
Is it a coincidence that there is a lot of Mexican/US border nearby?
Nah!!!!!!!!!!
If that's the case they should be disbanded and the Predators turned over to the Minute Men. I hope this is a typical news article that can't get anything straight. But then I've hoped for years that something would be done to close our borders.
That Air National Guard unit will PROBABLY deploy sometime in the near future. They have another mission to concentrate on at this point.....
As part of a virtual border the predator patrols feature the Frito Bandito serving up Texas Toast.
ummmmm ok :)
Predators won't stop anyone from crossing the border, but it will videotape them....I guess I don't see the correlation....
Predators can fire missiles, which could serve as a deterrant to border crossers.
we aren't going to fire missiles at border crossers. Come back when you are in touchw with reality please.
They want it to be reality. Just look @ the other comments on the thread. Way too many people on FR make suggestions like this (or far worse) in almost every immigration thread.
I wasn't serious. Come back when you are in touch with your humorous side. They could practice by using them to spot illegal immigrants for the Border Patrol. That might make too much sense though. For the record, I don't actually think that "crossers" as you call them, should be killed. I think they should be deterred and the violent criminals among them should be arrested and prosecuted.
I've seen that very sentiment seriously posted on this site WAY to many times to think it was funny.
We also dont need snide comments by the elitist free trader hispandering syncophants similar to the ones posted by yours truly.
DoD is still taxpayer funded. Predators and Aerial surveillance tools are stationed at Fort Huachuca, yet the DHS refuses to attempt to use the tools to ensure border security of US Citizens, either by design or malevolent intent. Fort Huachuca proper is within 5 miles of the border. Illegals have caused accidents on the main road just off post.
Fort Huachuca is on the east side of a mountain range that runs to the border. The west side of the range is where illegals smuggle drugs humans, and also light multi thousand acre fires by not policing campfires.
Fort Huachuca also is host to an "aerostat" blimp which is supposed to be for aerial border security - IE a blimp based radar that Senator De Concini foisted upon the DoD.
WTF happened to information sharing between agencies post 9/11. Why could not DoD pass information on to DHS on suspected illegal activity, using passive aerial surveillance tools like the Aerostat, predator, and airborne elint and sigint platforms that Fort Huachuca is a center of excellence in training for? WTF not?
If you see illegal activity while flying do you report it?
The folks who live on the border dont have their personal US Marshalls to defend them. If it were up to you nothing at all would be done, because hispandering is more important than US Citizen security.
Now we are making illegal entry a felony and some want to tie law enforcment's hands by saying we must not shoot to kill. Must be Code Pink now infiltrating FR. I imagine that one could shoot tranquilizers so that all of the bureaucrats and lawyers would still have lots of process and paperwork. However, such a weapon could act as a powerful deterrent if it were not disabled by such reservations.
BTTT
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