Texas 'navy' to patrol the Rio Grande

Texas is getting its own navy.

Next month, the state's Department of Public Safety will deploy the first of a fleet of six gunboats on the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border between the state and Mexico, CNN affiliate WFAA-TV reports.

The 34-foot-long boats, each powered by three, 300-horsepower outboard engines, will have bulletproof plating and six machine guns apiece, not unlike the river patrol boats the U.S. Navy used during the Vietnam War.

The vessels will be able to operate in as little as 2 feet of water, according to the report, and will work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to combat drug smuggling coming across the Rio Grande.

"They're finding out when those people are coming across, and one of the things they need to be able to do is interdict them on the water," Texas state Rep. Paul Workman told CNN affiliate KVUE-TV when the first of the boats, the JD Davis, was christened in December.

"If you're trying to suppress organized smuggling activity, there's no substitute for putting people on the ground," Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven C. McCraw said at the December ceremony. "The way they're operating right now, you need them on the water as well."

"It sends a message: Don't mess with Texas," Jose Rodriguez, a regional commander of the Texas Department of Safety, told WFAA.

The six boats will be named after Texas state troopers killed in the line of duty. The first was named after Jerry Don Davis, who was shot and killed in 1980. Another, to be commissioned Thursday in Austin, will be named in honor of trooper David Irvine Rucker, who was killed in 1981, according to The Brownsville Herald.

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Nice. I like it.

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, after getting are asses handed to us in both Iraq and Afghanistan, this doesn't seem like such a good idea.

Huh?

So this is the Texas State Navy at work here and not the US Navy?

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And the masses are shocked.

A more accurate motto for the Texas Navy would be: "If you're brown, we'll make you drown"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K5zMC-3d9o

If all this stuff was legal, we wouldn't even have to worry about these thugs smuggling anything across the border. Nice way to waste millions of dollars.

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Oh yeah, we took command and completely owned...the Green Zone.

Not even the mainstream media thinks we're leaving Afghanistan as victors. Some observers have pointed out that the bloody red Soviets left Afghanistan in early '89 under better circumstances than we are today...

All we did in Iraq is knock the lid off 8 centuries of a bloody feud between the shiites and sunnis that Sadaam (despite his Sunni background) actually did a pretty good job not lording it over the shiites and keeping things relatively civil (save for his own relatives) .

The shiites and sunnis need a dictator like Saddam--to keep them from slaughtering each other.




http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\02\25\story_25-2-2012_pg4_

So we took out a Western friendly dictator and handed Iraq over to shiites friendly to Iran's government? America, Fuck Yeah!

Too bad we killed off OBL, he could've been useful in helping the sunnis and AQI take out the Iran-friendly shiite government now dug-in behind the walls of the Green Zone.