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  • Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More (Returning veterans!) [from 2009]

    05/17/2014 3:20:55 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 31 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 13, 2009 | Jennifer Steinhauer
    IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor. The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! — fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and masks affixed. “United States Border Patrol! Put your hands up!” screams one in a voice cracking with...