What...Scouts Trained To Fight Terrorists?


	What...Scouts Trained To Fight Terrorists?

fewstingscorpio

5-14-2009 9:19 PM

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boy scouts, explorers, terrorists, immigration, training, law, law enforcement, teenagers

fewstingscorpio says:

Apparently, they are trained to confront illegal immigration and escalating border violence. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html?em

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Explorers ready to enter a building taken by terrorists, in an exercise. 
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In a training exercise run by Border Patrol agents, Explorer scouts from Visalia, Calif., prepare to storm a “hijacked” bus. 
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