Word: patrol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handler yelled, "Ambush! Hit the dirt!" Just then Drega began firing, wounding a New Hampshire state trooper in the thigh. The area was so isolated and wooded that the officers could not radio for help right away. Before backup could arrive, Drega shot a Border Patrol agent and a Vermont state trooper. Finally, at about 6:50, during a fire fight with more than 20 police officers, Drega was killed by a police bullet through his mouth. Two days later, police discovered an arsenal of 86 pipe bombs, half a dozen rifles, and explosives and projectile casings for a grenade...
...have been forbidden to take part in domestic law enforcement, the result of a post-Civil War law, the Posse Comitatus Act. But in the 1980s, in response to a growing drug problem on the border, the law was loosened to allow military units to help the U.S. Border Patrol catch drug smugglers. A Department of Defense entity called Joint Task Force Six, based in El Paso, Texas, has since 1989 coordinated 3,300 missions on the border; 746 of them involved listening or observation posts like the one Banuelos and three other Marines established several days before Hernandez...
...danger of such military patrols is that they operate according to rules different from those of other law-enforcement agents. Moving stealthily about in camouflage gear, soldiers are under general orders not to identify themselves, not to fire warning shots and to respond to any perceived lethal threat under the military's "rules of engagement"--which means, roughly, shoot to kill. This is what happened to Hernandez, who had fired his weapon twice in the direction of the four Marines. Family members say Hernandez often carried a gun to fend off predators, and it is not clear whether he knew...
...atrocity tale told with Noel Coward insouciance. But the most interesting part of the film comes after it's over. That's when the real knives come out. At the Sundance Film Festival, where this pitch-black comedy was an award winner, LaBute was widely rebuked by the sensitivity patrol. After a Manhattan screening, a male publicist was punched. Well, he was a guy. Probably deserved...
Moreover, the sharks patrol these ranges randomly. They may return to a given spot twice in one week, then not again for months. "It's clear," says Holland, "that you can't significantly reduce the local shark population by fishing for a limited time in a single area. You'd have to reduce the general population to have any effect--and that's not acceptable anymore...