Photos: The National Guard on the Arizona/Mexico border
The National Guard assisted the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (previously the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Customs Service) on the Arizona border with Mexico in 2001 and 2006-2007.
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Senior airman Ethan Harvey, 22, Tech Sgt. Nick Livingston, 33, and Senior airman Joseph Littlejohn, 24, work their shift as part of an Entry Identification team just east of Nogales, Ariz. on Oct. 19, 2006
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Members of the 206th Engineer Battalion from the Kentucky National Guard watch as heavy equipment used by fellow guardsmen work on a 1.5 mile section of new road that runs parallel to the U.S.-Mexico border east of Nogales, Ariz., on July 14, 2006. The area is also east of an area commonly referred to as Smugglers Gulch said Border Patrol agents.
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National Guardsmen stand watch atop a hillside along the U.S. border with Mexico just east of Nogales, Ariz., on October 19, 2006. The National Guard provided support to the Border Patrol with construction of infrastructure and identification of illegal entrants.
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Senior airman Ethan Harvey, 22, Niagra Falls, New York, works his shift as part of an Entry Identification team just east of Nogales, Ariz. on Oct. 19, 2006
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Senior Airman Jeremiah Steele of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, jokes with Senior Airman Ethan Harvey of Niagra Falls, New York during a 24 hour shift as part of an Entrant Identification Team on the Arizona border in 2006.
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Tech Sgt. Nick Livingston of Cincinnati, Ohio, left, and Senior airman Joseph Littlejohn of Oklahoma City, laugh as Senior airman Jeremiah Steele tells stories about growing up in West Virginia on Oct. 20, 2006. Guardsmen from around the country volunteered to be part of the operation that provides support to the Border Patrol.
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A National Guard Humvee travels on an access road at "Smuggler's Gulch" east of Nogales Ariz, and across the border from Nogales, Sonora. in 2006.
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National Guard troops work on a road drainage project along the border fence about one mile west of the downtown Nogales port of entry on May 16, 2006.
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U.S. Air National Guard personnel install a section of bollard fencing in Nogales Arizona in 2007. The bollards are being installed in order to allow water to flow through the area, where previously storm water would wash debris up against the border fence, putting it in danger of being pushed over. Repairing and building fence has been a major contribution by the national guard in the Nogales area, according to Border Patrol public information officer Marlan Holland.
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National Guardsman Jeremiah Steele of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., stands across from the U.S. border with Mexico at an area known as "Smuggler's Gulch" east of Nogales, Ariz., in this Oct. 19, 2006 photo.
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Arizona National Guardsmen observe a U.S. Customs officer at the Mariposa Port of entry in Nogales on November 6th, 2001.
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In this 2007 photo, Border Patrol agent Richard DeWitt looks over a new road that the National Guard built near what is called the Ephraim Ridge" which will enable agents to drive further west along the Nogales Sector.
