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Marine Lance Cpl. Eduardo Velez welds together a portion of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border near Naco, Ariz., on Thursday. (Mark Levy-Herald/Review) BISBEE -- The Marines have landed. Although they are not taking a beach from an enemy, they are working along the border to help slow drug smugglers from entering the United States from Mexico. Nearly 60 members of Marine Wing Support Squadron 374 from Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California arrived late August for a monthlong deployment. Their mission is to improve a portion of the border road and install more fencing in support...

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...

<p>TUCSON - A Marine unit is building a fence nearly a half-mile long to keep people from crossing an area of the U.S.-Mexico border near Naco.</p> <p>The 12-foot-high fence will be made of steel posts placed about 8 inches apart in a zigzag pattern, said Armando Carrasco, a spokesman for the Defense Department's Joint Task Force 6, based at Fort Bliss, Texas.</p>