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  • U.S. military beefing up its presence on borders

    08/26/2004 7:16:36 AM PDT · by esryle · 46 replies · 1,214+ views
    EL PASO, Texas - (KRT) - There's a growing sense of urgency among those who police America's long, porous borders that tighter control is needed to prevent terrorists from slipping into the flood of illegal immigrants entering the United States. The Sept. 11 Commission found that the nation's borders are largely unprotected and recommended that border security become an integral part of national security policy. Now that airline security has been improved, terror suspects increasingly are being detected trying to enter the country on ships or overland. A military unit called Joint Task Force-6 is greatly expanding its role in...
  • From power to meals, other military services help Marines

    09/05/2003 6:39:31 PM PDT · by SandRat · 5 replies · 208+ views
    BISBEE -- The operative word in Joint Task Force Six is joint. Each branch of the service is represented -- Navy, Army and Air Force -- with a base camp at Bisbee Municipal Airport to support 60 Marines from an Engineer Company from Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California as they do road and fence work along the border. The Navy is represented by Petty Officer 2nd Class Winfeld Lattibeaudeir, who is assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 374. "Doc," as the Marines call Lattibeaudeir, is a field medic whose sea duty is to go where...