Posted on 06/06/2024 4:52:55 AM PDT by Dacula
Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas has experienced two breaches within the past two weeks, raising serious concerns about security at the military installation. On Friday, a suspected human smuggler led Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers on a high-speed chase, ultimately breaching the base. This comes just a week after a suspected illegal immigrant jumped a fence at the same location while fleeing U.S. Border Patrol agents.
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In a similar incident a week earlier, a 17-year-old Mexican national breached a fence at Laughlin Air Force Base after escaping a traffic stop by Del Rio Border Patrol agents. The agents, along with canine teams, apprehended the teen after an hour-long search. Four other adult men, also believed to be illegal immigrants, were arrested from the vehicle that was stopped.
In response to these incidents, Laughlin Air Force Base has emphasized its commitment to enhancing security. The back-to-back breaches at Laughlin come just weeks after another significant security incident at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, where two Jordanian nationals attempted to gain unauthorized access.
These repeated breaches underscore the urgent need for fortified security measures to protect military personnel and resources at Laughlin Air Force Base.
The Chinese bought several acres of land just outside of Laughlin AFB.
L.A.F.B. is just outside of Del Rio, TX
Chinese and others from “nations of interest” regularly breach our border. Our military installations are regularly breached. The Chinese are buying land closer and closer to these locations. Tell me we’re not under attack.
With 'aid and comfort' from parties within the United States.
I was stationed there for 9 years. Highway 90 and the railroad tracks, passed the base on the north side. We could even see the cars and the trains on our radar.
Laughlin is also over 5700 acres.
Physical perimeter security is an issue for pretty much every stateside AFB, especially out west.
Before retiring I worked on a project (prototype) to use robot dogs for patrols. The dogs were equipped with aerial UAVs (smallish drones) on their back, and the drones could be launch AND retrieved off/on the dogs.
The USAF can’t spare/afford uniformed forces to truly cover the bases out west, and frankly, in the ‘old days’ it was usually kids and hunters - and a few peaceniks - who breached the perimeter. The dogs could locate and ID the perps 24X7 in all weather, and USUALLY the response was to call civilian law enforcement to handle it.
Successful test. Not yet funded ...
THOSE LAND PURCHASES HAVE TO BE NULLIFIED & STOPPED.
Maybe if they shoot to kill immediately this might end. But it seems the media needs to program the masses.
When I was a spry young lad, I knew every inch of that base, because I covered it on my bicycle nearly every day. I could tell you if a rattlesnake crossed a dirt road or a jackrabbit. I never got ahold of a jackrabbit and they frustrated me time and time again. Those old rattlers never stood a chance.
LAFB has changed since I grew up there. Heck, my old duplex house is gone, and so is the tree I planted over half a century ago.
I was a Junior Security Officer and reported the things that we saw that were out of the ordinary all over the base.
It was a great time and place to grow up.
It must not be that big of a deal! It didn’t appear that they pursued these people with any kind of urgency. Was anybody taken into custody? When they located the car, all four doors were open. How many crooks got away?
That is because our government has failed in its obligation to defend our borders and military bases.
They probably couldn't even read the signs to know where they were.
You may pass it off lightly, but it is still a probe of the base’s security.
We are vulnerable.
We are vulnerable.
You are right.
If illegal aliens just making a wrong turn can so easily get in and not be stopped or killed in the process, something is very wrong.
Hard to go home again, isn’t it.
Back then the greatest threats were the rattlesnakes and maybe a drunk airman returning to base.
To some point that is a problem, but I do like going back and remembering the good old times. I love the stars and satellites at night.
I lived on Edwards Street 63’-66’. I fished and hunted past the golf course often, carrying a .22 rifle often. No one was upset. I remember once a jackrabbit attacked a patrol dog on the South gate. And yes, the rattlesnakes were plenty as were the cottonmouths around the lake and water reservoir. I made my spending money there bagging groceries at the commissary and mowing lawns.
No kidding. I mowed many a lawn, handed out movie schedules, and delivered the Border Eagle every week. My first ‘paying job’ was at the commissary bagging groceries as well, however in the ‘70s.
The back gate is now the only gate open. They closed the front gate several years ago.
I used to chase those darn jackrabbits with bow and arrow & BB guns. They just laughed at me all the time. The two back lakes on the base were fun to fish the morning away and go find golf balls to sell back to the golfers for soda and pinball.
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