by Jose Campos These seaborne first responders knew what they were looking for, and how to proceed. The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball pulled up alongside the suspected drug smuggling vessel, seized its contraband, and took suspects into custody. And the suspects’ boat met a swift end …
Read More »Inside a Military Patrol on America’s Southern Border
by Jose Campos “You have to watch your step. This is rattlesnake territory.” From the ground, the operation looks and feels like a deployment. For soldiers patrolling the vast, open terrain around Presidio, Texas, the mission includes squad level reconnaissance in remote territory. They know first hand that the U.S. …
Read More »Extortion on the Border: The Northeast Cartel Controls Flow of Drugs and Migrants Into Texas
The Northeast Cartel is not well known inside the U.S., but the powerful group controls key territory inside Mexico, along the border with Texas. The group holds sway over Nuevo Laredo, a staging ground for drugs and people headed into the United States. Journalist Parker Asmann visited the border town, and …
Read More »The Gruesome Fate of Surgeons Who Built New Face For Mexican Drug Lord
by “Sol Prendido” One of the most influential capos in Mexico’s history met a tragic end – and so did his doctors, according to authorities. One of the most powerful drug lords in Mexico was Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who was born in Navolato, Sinaloa, in 1956. El Señor de los …
Read More »Russian Su-35 Meets American F-35 in Skies Near Alaska
“Welcome to the world of intercepts.” That’s one way to get a close look at a jet. Russian pilots filmed this close encounter between their aircraft and an American fighter jet. The cockpit footage shows a Russian Su-35S fighter jet escorting a Tu-95MS “Bear” bomber over the Bering and Chukchi …
Read More »Lakota Helicopter Patrols the Skies Over New Mexico Border
The southern New Mexico border is a vast expanse of unforgiving terrain, where people enter at their own risk. These U.S. soldiers assigned to Task Force Sentinel take to the skies in a UH-72 Lakota helicopter to patrol the terrain. Come along for an inside look at a patrol flight …
Read More »Along the Texas Border, US Troops Secure the Frontier
by Jose Campos SIERRA BLANCA, Texas – The arid landscape outside Sierra Blanca has long been a favored corridor for human smuggling and narcotics trafficking, exploited by organized criminal networks. Now, with U.S. troops in the field, the human part of the landscape has changed. Under orders from U.S. Northern …
Read More »British Football Fan Finds Sensitive Military Documents Strewn on the Street in UK
The U.S. has Signalgate, but the United Kingdom is grappling with the revelation that hundreds of sensitive military documents were found strewn on the ground in Newcastle. The British Ministry of Defence is “urgently” investigating the incident, after hundreds of pages of ripped-up military documents were found on an industrial …
Read More »Fourth US Soldier Found Dead After Vehicle Sank into Bog in Lithuania
The fourth U.S. Army Soldier assigned to 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division was found dead near Pabradė, Lithuania the afternoon of April 1. The soldiers, whose identities are being withheld pending notification of next of kin, went missing in the early morning hours of March 25 in their …
Read More »When the KGB Took on the Soviet Police
by Boris Egorov At the end of 1980, on the outskirts of Moscow, a number of Soviet policemen picked an argument with a KGB major. They had no idea what dire consequences the encounter would have for them and the entire Soviet police force. On the morning of December 27, …
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