June 17, 2015
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Mark Koernke and Don Butcher discussed border security and cartel activity with Tim Foley from Arizona Border Recon, a civilian militia group operating 75 miles southwest of Tucson. Foley detailed five years of operations documenting drug trafficking, human smuggling, and cartel scout positions along the Arizona-Mexico border, reporting increasing violence, Mexican military incursions, and the presence of individuals from 78 different nations crossing illegally. The hosts also covered a news report about Israeli and Saudi military officers killed in a Houthi missile attack on a Saudi airbase in Yemen, using it to discuss alleged collusion between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
- arizona border recon
- border security
- cartel scouts
- drug trafficking
- human smuggling
- tucson sector
- border patrol
- yemen missile attack
- saudi arabia
- israel
- houthi
- weapons wednesday
- preparedness
- militia
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A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent, although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic and each God-given right. And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Hot Russians? I assume this is a girl here, but the comment. Russian women are desperate to meet Western men. These beautiful girls will pursue you. Little brackets as you'll see and then kill you. Hey, wait a minute. They will find you and they will kill you, sir. What is the value of your insurance, my darling? My beautiful numbers gave a lot more until I found out that we are at the point where I inherited everything. Hopefully this will hurt a lot. Go ahead Ed, what do you got? I'm still distracted. I did not refresh the conference line so about halfway through I'm probably going to give you a break. Hang up the conference on my end. You guys will still be there and reconnect that way it doesn't drop off. I've got to apologize. I've been distracted down here with everything that's been going on in the area. I'm sorry, I literally did lost track of time. I looked at the clock I'm Mark Horneky and I'm Don Butcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west southwest, east, and north. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, Support Spike and the network guys, don't forget, we've got other networks, all of them need to get a little bit of push here and there, make sure we cover the bills and upgrade as needed. We're on AM&FM microstations, CB base stations, Ultra, NET, Hallmark, and Golden Spike Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Raining here right now, oh actually might have just stopped as we started the hour, it's just spittering a little bit. Don, what's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the date? Well let's jump in off the wall there please. Well the clouds are back on this the 17th day of June, year of our Lord 2015 and it might rain and it's a little more humid than it was in the middle of the day, but I'm not complaining, a beautiful day. What a wonderful day, the 17th day of, and it is a strike down the middle of the week. So, without further ado, then 1911 in one hand, empty magazine well and full magazine in the other hand. We're going to introduce the magazine to the magazine well, touch that slide release and tell you that is a condition one gun. and it is Weapons Wednesday, the perimeter is secure. And as I top off my magazine, I'm going to tell you that there's plenty more where that came from. And Mark, maybe we've got a guest waiting, maybe not, but again, there's plenty more where that came from. Means we can offer equal opportunity course of course. That hand cannon is part of your perimeter close area defense. Make sure that you know how to use it no matter which hand cannon you do decide to carry. And keep your knife and your tomahawk or close order blade if it's a hatchet. Close at hand. Know where they are. Know how to use them. Practice using them. Do we have a collar? Yes, my favorite. The Est Wing drywall hammer. Not available everywhere but my God if you got it, it works. Mallet on one end, thump thump. Or blade on the other. we go. Wow, it really does cleave flesh quite well. And maybe it was a time thing, maybe it was something else had to happen, but I'm waiting for Tim to call in. And star six, do I mute yourself? Do we have Tim there? Now, I'm going to touch on one thing here real quick. It's from the Trenches World Report Scroll. This is from Fars News, F-A-R-S News. Farsi, of course. Oh, do we have a caller? Don here. there we go okay hold for just a second caller with just upgraded one little article here kind of israeli Saudi area Saudi officers killed in Yemen missile attack uh... some twenty israeli officers sixty-three Saudi military men and officials were killed in many others taken captive any special military operation of the Yemen of Yemen's and through a lot more movement in a mere colleague their base in let's see, Southern Saudi Arabia, a top security official announced on Wednesday. The Nsarullah fighters backed by the Yemeni army hit Amir Khalid airbase in Khemiz, al-Wushed region in Southern Saudi Arabia with a SCUD missile, and then several Najim al-Siquab, striking star missiles last week killing over 20 senior Israeli officers and 63 Saudi military men and capturing 35 others. Medin Nasser al-Bashir told FNA on Wednesday. He mentioned that the Israeli officers were agents of the Mossad spy agency and were in the region to help the Saudi army. More on that in just a second. And today, at the time of the attack, the Israeli officers were working on a plan to attack some regions of Yemen with prohibited Israeli-made weapons. The Yemeni army targeted a mere Khalid military base in Kamiz, Hamiz al-Mushat, region by SCUD missile last week. Saudi army claimed that it intercepted the SCUD with two Patriot missiles but the Arabic language El-Mayaseed news News channel showed footage of the missile attack reporting that it had hit the target. Following the attack, the Saudi army evacuated the passenger terminals of two airports in nearby areas. Later reports revealed that Saudi Arabia Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mohammed bin Ahmed Al-Shalam had been killed in the missile attack. Earlier today, a senior commander of AMSARULA confirmed that the Yemeni Popular Forces and the army had killed the Saudi Air Force commander in the missile attack. Shilaw was killed five days ago in the Yemeni Army's special operations against Amir Khalideir base. Colonel Challey, Mohammed told F... Everybody's got a Mohammed in there somewhere. Mohammed told FNA on Wednesday, except for guys more than north. They don't see their names on Mohammed in there as often, but they do have others. The attack against Khalid Air Base was waged by missiles and weapons systems that were not very special. The operation was planned by Ansarallah and the Yemeni army conducted it after Ansarallah provided it with the information about Muhammad Shalom's presence at Khalid Air Base in Temiz el-Mushayyat. Now here's the thing, guys, this is something I've talked about before. The Saudis finance supposedly from the one side the Arab-Israeli wars, okay? And they do control Mecca, which is like the center of Muslim holiness. And there's a whole bunch of their arch-enemies sitting at the same table, munching on the same food, so to speak, and you know, swapping spit and being poofed at us back there in the back tent, probably with their pants down left and right, which is not unusual, especially for the Israelis. And they all get killed together. Now, it doesn't sound like they're really hardcore enemies to me, you know what I mean? We have kind of mentioned this before. And as we've mentioned, we're being played. The Saudis and the Israelis laugh their ass off at us. And of course, they finance pretty much all of the disasters that are going on. So in this case, well, the body count up or down, however you look at it, it's who's who in the zoo, who was there on the site at the time, and what were they planning? Now of course when you see all the movies and propaganda, well the Saudis and the Israelis, all they hate are at war with all the, all the Middle East, and then they're sitting down the same table, Waging Warren, everybody else. Wow, it's totally the opposite of all the movie B.S., isn't it? Then again, it's movie B.S. Well, we've got a guest on, take over please, because we've got a lot of things to cover, and we've got about 40 minutes to do, so go ahead. Thank you, Mark. Hey, we talk about the border a lot. We talk about different actions along the border, but we've got here today that can fill us in on a lot of happening in Arizona. We've got Tim Foley with us from the Arizona Border Recon. You can find that on the internet, can't you Tim? Yes sir, we're a arizonaborderrecon.org. We're also on Google Plus and Facebook. We've been down here for five years. My place is probably 400 yards from the fence. Definitely not what your basic propaganda is telling you. It's on both sides of the border. And actually about 10 minutes ago, one of my contacts texted me and said, the ranch is 20 miles north of me. Just had a Muslim with a prayer rug over his shoulder come up in ash for water and they turned him over to Border Patrol. My contacts on the south side say that there's over 50 Muslim up 2 1,500 miles south of us. Word that they say is, how they classify them is, they scare the shit out of them. These are people who deal with bandits, cartel, everybody day in and day out, and these guys scare the shit out of them. So, they're not good people on the other side right now. What we've noticed in the past five years is it's actually getting more violent down on the border. And you're not gonna, well, I mean, they couldn't hide the other day of the helicopter in Texas being shot at. That where I'm at, you're probably getting shots fired at least once a week or so. Shots fired. You're talking about like gunfights on the other side of the border. Oh, it might be 10 minutes, might be for an hour, right? Oh, yeah. 50 miles to the east of us, or west of us right now, there's two cartels battling for the trail rights, I guess you would call it. for that area. And in the past month, there's been five people killed in the town right on the border. And Mexicans? There's two cartels in Mexico battling it out on the other side of the reservation from us. They did it not too long ago, right where we are south of us. And I guess they pushed them over there and so now they're still, somebody's buying for trail rights because you're looking at $40 to $50 billion a year in drug trade and $10 billion a year in human trafficking trade. So you're talking a lot of money and so that's why they go at it. But in the- Let's back up a little bit because a lot of people know where Arizona is. Some people know the Sonora border. Tell us where you're at. Give a description. I've seen pictures. I've heard verbal accounts of the area. We'll share some of that later perhaps. But describe here. Tell us where you're at. We are 75 miles southwest of Tucson. My guys were all former military. They have some that are from Afghanistan and they say the terrain there reminds them of Afghanistan. It's brutal. It's steep. The more hospitable the terrain is, the more stuff comes through because you don't have as much without as many roads, you have less amount of border patrol. And so the deeper you get into the mountains, the more stuff comes through. Since the beginning of the year in our area, probably within 20 miles of us, we've had over six Mexican military incursions into Arizona. And we're not talking One or two. You're talking squad size, platoon size. There's one area that border patrol has even advised us, don't even go down there because they're about a mile in and what they're doing is they're protecting the loads coming across so they can get all their stuff across and then they make their way into the mountains. But they control good portions of Arizona. And the border patrol knows about it. Examples by telling you don't go there. Yeah, because, uh, see, Border Patrol are doing an outstanding job. I mean, they're doing the best they can, but it's the bureaucrats in D.C. who are saying, you know, don't do this, don't go here. I mean, we're fighting a war down here. Bureaucrats are trying to fight this war with a shift mentality, meaning life. they've taken away any overtime or anything from the Border Patrol agents. So even if a Border Patrol agent is pursuing, say, 12 dope mules with, you know, 600 pounds of dope, he can't continue the pursuit because there is no overtime. So he has to leave. That's it. All he can do is call in the grid coordinates and direction of travel and hopefully the next shift coming in will get it. A border patrol station is in Tucson, which again is about an hour and a half drive to the border. You're looking at three hours per shift driving just to get to the job. And so that only leaves five hours. They're doing it all wrong. I mean, I think they're doing it all wrong because like I say, there's too much money, too many votes coming across. Disgusting is what what it is. Oh, we've addressed that in many ways, you know Even the politicians pander maybe not directly as the Mexican but the immigrant vote that's the big media fence They always show you the big steel fence. Yeah, that big steel fence regardless of where it is is 30 to 100 yards inside of the United States. It's surrender that much immediately. Yeah So that way they didn't have to ask Mexico permission to build it on the border because they had to run equipment on both sides of the fence. I mean, where we're at, that media fence goes two and a half miles both combined. And then from there, there's nothing for 50 miles, at least each direction. Oh, that's the virtual border patrol, Tim, isn't it? The drones and the balloons and all the seismic sensors that never worked or are never watched or never turned on? Well, if the sensor gets hit, you know, and there's nobody around, that's far behind them. So border patrol estimates they catch 30% of what comes across. And in the Tucson sector, they're averaging 10,000 apprehensions a month. So if they're only getting 30% of that, there's 25,000 more that they're not getting. And that's per month just in the Tucson sector. It's staggering. And so what we do out there is we provide real time intelligence and Things like that. We go out, we GPS these humanitarians who leave water out in the mountains. The interesting thing about these humanitarians, they're brainwashed, but 90% of their water drops we have noticed are on dope trails. They're not on the illegal trails. And when you're down here, you can tell the difference between a dope trail and an illegal trail because The illegal trails, people get tired of carrying stuff. So you find clothing, hair products, toothbrushes, I mean everything. They get tired of carrying it and they just dump it. But you go onto a dope trail, they're pristine except for water bottles and food containers because that's the only thing they can drop. And we're finding all the majority, I'd say 90% of the water drops are on dope trails. We're trying to figure out, well we know, but they're denying it that the cartel is actually paying them and leaving the water on these trails. We have over 200 water drops GPSed. We have over 75 cartel scout locations inside of Arizona GPSed. Because you're talking about right? Because people move, their people move through, they're the lookouts. Yeah, we call them drug traffic controls, just like air traffic control, but for drugs. And that's one of our specialties is we like to go after the scouts. I mean, because Border Patrol, like I say, they've only got five hours and most of the mountains, the small ones take you about an hour and a half just to go up the face of it. All you're going to do if you go up the face is just scare them off into one of their hiding spots and they'll come back in a couple hours. Or you can go around the backside on their blind side and those bumps take about three and a half hours to get up into them. And we go, if we catch them at the right time, we can get their solar panels, their radios, their food and everything else. And then it takes them three to four days to get somebody back up there. Even though they'll send them. But they sit on the mountains for two weeks at a time in teams of two. their location? Because they're valuable, so they have to be there. And the scout locations go from our place, we have four different cartel scout locations that keep an eye on our house alone. And so they know when we're moving. So we move in the opposite direction. We'll send out decoy vehicles and we'll head north like we're going to town. and we go around their backside. So we've figured out how to get around them and where all their blind spots are because we've been up and down the mountain so many times. We know where we can go in and then slow down real quick, dump four guys out, then keep the truck rolling. They think the truck is still moving, but we have four guys on the ground. And we're trying to play a 600 square mile game of hide and seek with these guys. And it's their rules. trying to play along with it. Again, there are rules. We can elaborate on that for a moment. Like, you know, on the other side of the border, they don't hesitate to make the police chief or the town mayor all as he used to be from his chin to the top of his head. Yeah, yeah. And that's, I've been threatened six times in the past three years by two different cartels. They wanted this, you know, they'll intimidate if you stand your ground and you I'm not going anywhere and neither of my guys and we're not afraid of you. They pretty much uh, implies that we have a different set of uh, engagement than uh, Border Patrol does because we are private citizens. So, Arizona to defend ourselves. It's been told that if they encounter somebody with weapons uh, from the cartel to back off and go away and till more help arrives and sometimes your backup is three hours away. That doesn't sound like a win in a proposition or a live through. And most land agents down there appreciate what we do because before we go out, we'll call Tucson. They know who we are, like I say, because we've been there for five years. And we give them a grid location of where we're going and what area we'll be working. And if we're working in an area, stay outside of that area, we'll run your flanks. What we do is we'll close off an area. We closed off approximately the border with 16 guys hitting the most popular trails, which once they figured out we were there, they had to start shifting everything about five miles to the east and west. And the more open areas ran straight into Border Patrol. So we were indirect action with Border Patrol, our last stop. We got 23 dope mules with 900 pounds of dope, 57 illegals, and we personally went up the mountains and got the cartel scouts and all their supplies. A lot of attrition, I guess. You get guys that come down and they think they're going to be in firefights and everything else. When they don't get in a firefight, they get all butt hurt or something. But in the five years, if you do it right like we do, we haven't fired a single shot. Set it up properly, you don't have to fire a single shot. They walk right into you, you tell them, drop your weapons or die, and they realize that they're in a bad situation. And they know that the federal government will not prosecute them, even for coming across with an AK-47, that federal government does not prosecute. Also, the DOJ underneath a colder, prosecutable of drugs being carried by somebody coming across the border. There's a prosecutors amount. Below this, they just won't do anything? Really? Yeah, exactly. Wow. It started out as anything and then they started busting them left and right and so they got tired of doing that so they upped the weight per person to 60 pounds because they were carrying 40 pound bales and then they bumped it to 80 pounds and then they decided they didn't want to prosecute anymore so they bumped it now to 299 pounds. Oh, every Mexican can carry that. Nobody in their right mind can carry that. I know. But it's asinine. They don't get prosecuted for weapons. And also when Border Patrol was apprehending the dope needles with the dope, the federal prosecutors go to court, the prosecutor would go, are you sure that that bail was on that guy's back and not that guy's back? And the Border Patrol would go, there's six bales and there's six guys. Each one of them was carrying a bail. But which bail was which? And it's like, just... so they would throw a mouth. They might make a shell game out of it. Yeah, so Border Patrol, their tactics now most of the time is to scare the mules into dropping the loads, let the mules run off, and then they gather up the dope, and then that's all they do now, because the government is making their job so hard that it's not worth it to apprehend the dope mules. Well, we hear about the Border Patrol as far as there's enough men or they could use more what do you hear from them? They're limited by their time so it is apparent that they could use a lot more. Well, they have plenty of manpower. It's just the way the bureaucrats are utilizing that manpower. I understand. I mean, they have Border Patrol agents sitting at the Tucson Airport, at Phoenix Airport, and where it should be, you know, customs, that's their job there, but they put them there. And then when the Texas thing happened and they, everybody went on high alert for a while, they even put Border Patrol agents inside of hospitals for some unknown reason. And what we're finding is that the higher ups are penalizing line agents for going out and doing their job too well. By that I mean if they go out and they're kicking ass out there and rounding up everybody and anybody and all the dope and everything else that we won't see them for anywhere two weeks to a month. Those line agents, it's like, well you've been, ah, they put me at the checkpoint or they put me at the airport. They defuse them. They, uh, you're doing your job too well, so go sit in the corner somewhere. They neuter them, yeah. Yes. And that's what's happening and I mean that's why we're down there and... Let's go back to that we because we got a basic location and you talk about these are trained people, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, but or would you be willing to have new people come in? How if I wanted to or if some listener wanted to, how would it set up where you can go to our website and we have a page there. Anybody can go there and look at it. We've made it because in the beginning of our, when we first started it, we were like, wow, we need bodies. Let's get people down here. And so we got people down there and people are, a lot of people are just way too jumpy. And it's like, wow. And Well then we started upping and if you go to our page you'll find our rules of engagement, our standard operating procedures, they're all posted. We have an application, you have to fill up, just like a job, you have to fill up the application. We get back to you if you look like you're gonna be a good fit and get back to you and then you upload copies of the ROEs and SOPs and every page is, you have to signature on it Then the final two pages on it you have to go to a notary public to have it stamp in front of them because some of our friendlies in federal agencies say you know if something happens that's great and dandy you have this but if somebody does something you're all going to hang for it because of Once you get to court, it's like, look at that signature. And it's like, he can deny it and go, nope, not my signature. So it's hearsay. So that's why we had the notary public. Once that's done, we also do a background check on you. We've all run the background check. I've done it myself. All of my guys, my permanent members in the team have done it. Most of our people who come out to help us are from California and New York. And they'll fly in every couple of months. to go on a one week off with us and they've all done it because they realize that it's better to know who you're operating with and that they've been checked out so that, because nobody wants to spend the rest of their life in a six by eight cell. For something somebody else did. Right. In particular. Any of our standard operating procedures, you know, we don't allow AK-47s down there due to the fact that that's what the bad guys use. And if you're a Border Patrol agent and you raise up your NVGs and you see four guys in your NVGs with the outline of AK47s, it's like, wow. We make everybody wear a... And we've had people go, yeah, but the Cartel Scouts, they don't give Cartel Scouts NVGs because they don't need them. They're sitting 1,600 feet above anything else. At nighttime, the only thing moving out there is border patrol. And so all they're looking for is headlights. Most of the cartel scout locations can see anywhere from 200 to 400 square miles of Arizona. To see a border patrol vehicle 20 some odd miles off, shit, you know you've got an hour, so you can still tell them to go, keep it coming, they ain't gonna be here for a while. So they don't have NVGs, but it's a safety so that there's no blue on blue. And that's why we also give grid coordinates. And then when we're down by the virtual fence with the radar towers and everything else, we even deploy thermal identification panels for our teams that are out by the cameras or on the vehicles. So we make it as safe as possible. We do it by the book. by the rules and the laws that are... and that's why we're still able to keep doing it because we don't run call signs, you know, like everybody has their call sign and that's what would be our name on our... but we're going, wait a second, we're trying to deal with these guys and they have their names on so everybody is made to wear, just like in the military, your last name on your name tape. By doing it the way we do it, we get basically the cream of the crop instead of just everybody because it is brutal. I get guys that come down there all the time and we'll do like that scene in the platoon where you go through the gear and I'll go through people's gear and go get rid of the plates now. Get rid of this, get rid of that, get rid of this. And they're going, I've been training with these body armor and everything else. And it's like, okay. But in half a day you'll see them beat the shit and when they get back to camp throwing else out that they can because one of my favorite trails and they call them mules for a reason this trail rises 1800 feet in elevation in approximately 1400 feet in distance great up and down. Last time I went up I started with six guys and by the time I got to the top I was only had one. They're right behind you right? Yeah they're taking up positions along the hillside all the way up. Like I say, it's not for everybody that other people can do if they can't do it or if they want to help us continue to help secure the border. We have a donate button there on our website. We get about $140 a month in donations and my expenses that are trying to keep it low are about $1600 a month. I cashed in two pensions and I took a 25% hit for the one time for my pensions. And so that's pretty much what we're doing right now is living off of my pensions and a couple of my guys have VA disability, but that's 400 bucks a month. So it's interesting. We just finished building our own man portable repeater. The mountains are so, I mean, and in the, Up until about three or four months ago, I go out and I have to check these trails, me and my dog. I get to the top of the mountain and I call my comms guy and go, alright, if you don't hear from me in six hours, call somebody. Because I would lose communications as soon as I went over the mountain. We started to develop and started researching And when we found them online, you know, they want 15 to 30 thousand bucks for a MAM portable tactical repeater, but it was in a pelican case and weighed 30 pounds and lasted for eight hours. And we're going, what the? No way. I'm not carrying nothing like that up there. Unless I have a dolly and a couple of burrows to drag it up there. So we've built this two-way radio repeater that will last indefinitely. And once we did all the research and finally put it all together, it cost us about $3,000. But it weighs 14 pounds. And like I say, it can stay out forever. And it is fully encrypted digital radio. Because that was one of the things we also did was go out and we got the frequencies licensed to us. We have our FCC license because we didn't want Some feds going, how can we shut them down? Let's just take all their radio gear. So now we're in compliance with the law there. So that's one less thing that somebody can come after us for. When you look at the feds, how does the state treat you? State pretty much leaves us alone because we're actually on, in Arizona, 80% of the border lands is federal lands. It's either National Wildlife Refuge, National Monument, National Forest. So there's not much the state can do. There's not much the county can do because Pima County, where Tucson is, goes all the way to the border. And we might see a Pima County Sheriff down there once every two months for five minutes in the daylight hours. And they'll never come. Yeah, they don't come down there. They patrol Wild West, huh? Yeah, they patrol pretty much non-stop about 46 miles north of the border. I don't know about them. Well, let me run a description. You guys, this is how close Tim's house is to the border. Again, the gunfights, you have no problem. You hear the gunfights across the border. One night I'm told you could hear a party in the town across the border. And the next morning someone knocked at your door. And someone answered the door, and the person that answered the door found someone, a gangster, asking for water. He said, well, wait a minute, and closed the door. Walked through the house, went out the back door, and the border patrol people were about 75 yards. Walked through the front door, walked through the back door, opened up the front door, and arrested Manuel, the gangster, right at your house. That happened, didn't it? Yeah, and one border patrol grabbed him and we took him back up to the border patrol vehicle He goes you don't know who I worked for I said I know who you work for they came to see if It was actually us that lived in that house I've had squattamalans walking up my driveway What's it last week? They had they're doing what they call Tire loads down there also Now if you don't know what that is, what they do is they'll take an old tire, a spare tire off a vehicle and they pop it off the rim and they pack it full of dope and then they put it back on the rim. Now they're paying about 600 bucks per tire to see if you can get it north back up into the city. I had a gentleman drive down my driveway last week. And I stepped out of my house and my side arm on, and I go, can I help you? Because I hope so. I'm here to pick up a tire. And I was like, are you shitting me? Obviously, you don't know who we are, and now you're asking where to pick up the tire. And so I told him, I said, you got to go down this road and then turn right and back in a couple hundred yards is where they at the tires. So same scenario, I walked back through my front door, out the back door, I left my little trail to where Border Patrol is sitting and told the guy, I got a guy who just said he's here to pick up a tire. He goes, no way. The guy comes back out and I said, well, that would be the vehicle right there. The driver and his wife were about 72 years old and they were white. So, the cartel is using anybody and everybody who's desperate for cash and these people were clueless that they were picking up. And until I asked myself, didn't somebody offering you 600 bucks to go down and pick up a tire and bring it back sound like it was a little much? Yeah, but I was like, hey, 600 bucks. I understand, nice little drive, but guess what? You're now busted for... trafficking dope and they had 40 pounds of dope in the tire and it goes on 24-7. Amazing some of the stuff we see down there. That word all the time that past weekends in this first-hand account that saw at least 50 Chinese segregated right around the area where the 50 plus Moozlems were and I'm like wow now we got Chinese we got Moozlems. We've had last month cameras of a Somali coming across the border in the mountains. So we took it up to Tucson, what's coming, and said, has you ever seen a dark-skinned Mexican? I was gone. You're kidding, right? I mean, with the big sloped forehead and the flared nostrils, and that's a dark-skinned Mexican. He goes, oh yeah, that's a dark, I was going, okay, whatever, dude. And we left across, there's Chinese, there's people from 78 different nations coming across the border right now. And where we sit by Border Patrol's account, 40% of everything that comes across the border in an 80-mile swath of the border in Arizona, and we're sitting smack dab in the middle of it. Sounds like they could keep you pretty busy. Believe me. The interesting thing is, if you sit and you plug up the trails right at the border, you're putting a crib in there because they have a schedule to keep. And so... They can only sit there so long because they only bring enough food to last so long to make it from point A to point B. It's usually a four to five day... And so they've only got four or five days worth of food and water. Well, they don't even have five days of water, but they don't have to. Because the nice humanitarians are leaving it out there for them. So... They always have this shitty eating grin on their face like, back next week, ain't shit you're gonna do. Pretty much. military we took an oath we see what's happened in propaganda and we decided you know we don't do something now or it might be too late it's why we're down there 24-7 I'm up in Tucson right now buying new tires from a truck not the $600 ones I could hey we're getting close to the top let's get your contacts out again please how would we get a hold of you Okay, you can we have a website Arizona border recon org We have everything I mean on there. We have an Intel map where we different incidents that are happening around us and The Intel map you'll see that it is just covered in filter amount so that you can actually see the map but We don't do Twitter, we don't do Instagram or any of those. We figure we've got enough happening with those ones. What is your primary shortage item right now with regard to supply? What is it you need most often replaced? Three top items? Three top items should probably be say like gas cars. I mean I spend probably a week on fuel because there are no gas stations there so you have to drive 75 miles to the gas station. And then when you get there you load up five gallon cans and stuff so you have it when you're back down. And like I said, tires wear out real fast down there. The other top items, we don't need MREs. People love to donate MREs and I could open up an MRE store. So you're good on food? Good on food, we're good on medical supplies. I got enough to probably outfit a battalion with medical supplies. I'd say fuel, vehicle maintenance type shit, and NVGs come out, who can't afford them? I don't know. I mean, and when we do, people do donate to us, you know. I mean, I know that there's a lot of people who have it in because of everything else, and then the money disappears and everything else. But every time somebody donates and we put it towards something, say like the repeater, we do a video on it. We post pictures. We had a guy just donate a day. $1,000 spotting scope. That thing is just old because now we can see the scouts from miles away and take their picture. And everything and anything, if it's cash or whatnot, it all goes straight back into us because we don't take a wage as long as our utilities and rents paid and then we're, you know, we've sacrificed everything else pretty much. We don't go out to dinner. Going out to dinner for us is taking a hot dog and going out the front door and sitting on the patio and watching the fence. Webgear, ACU, what are you using on the border that works? Down there, ACU has worked quite well before. What are you using for camo? Now we've done multi-cam because the terrain changes so much and it goes from brown to green in a matter of days once it rains. So we're finding that multi-cam works the best. And then after that, it's probably the Marpat Marine Digital Woodland. Okay, good. Those are two reasonably priced. Okay. Yeah. And do we need gear for people, kits set up so when they show up they've got something? Yes or no? We have a gear list of what you must have when you come down. You know, we hope that everybody, if they come down, they have GPS on their phones because me, I've been there so long, I can I know where I'm at, where I'm going, day, night, whatever, but I have guys that I'll ask them, hey, can you make it back out to the road? They go, yeah, sure, no problem. They have to go with him for him. Yeah. 15, 20 minutes later, I get a radio call going, I think we took a wrong turn. I said, all right, don't move. I'll come find you. No. OK, you're using the multicam. What about the ASAT, the basically smoky pattern? That work OK? You mean like an ATACS? Access code accepted. There are 10 participants in this conference. This conference is being recorded. Please announce yourselves. Oh, you know, and uh, follow the remote. Don knows I've mentioned this for decades. It has any way that people have died. They've got a great camel with that black, you know, that black rifle is an unnatural affair. Oh yeah, especially when, uh, you know, it's... Right here in the hell out there and here's this shadow that keeps moving and it's like what is that? That'll catch somebody's eye in a heartbeat. Very good. Tell you what, give us information again. How can we send donations? How can we hold you? And is there an address on the web page to mail things? I'm not sure if there is, but all you have to do is send us an email and we'll send you a mailing address. Go ahead and give out the website again, please. Three times the code flow. arizonaboarderecon.org Great. Thank you, Jim. And we are at the top of the hour, guys, for everybody out there. Don, your number for night vision, you'll be available in just a minute. That number is 231796. 845.8. Watch the environment. Remember, don't get caught flat-footed. It looks like it's rain out there on our side of the country. The other half is just plain hot. How is it hard to figure that one out? Duh! Anyway, we don't want to hear about any casualties. Y'all be careful, John. You never for night vision encloses, please. It is 2317968458. Thank you, Mark. God bless you. God bless America.