This article got my blood pressure near alarming cardiac arrest levels. I am still having a hard time believing this, so I can really understand why some Americans may not be able to bring this story to the surface of reality. Do not get mad at me. I love our patriot military force, and no one should stand for our brave service men and woman being put in a training exercise as the villain. This is simply not acceptable! There is no reason under the sun for a free republic to be training a civilian child police force to combat veterans or any Americans at that notion. The following is the link to the article and a paste. I am delivering both due to the common occurrence of some media pulling their stories under the worry of sheeple awakening.
Explorers Train to Fight Terrorists, and More
Explorers ready to enter a building taken by terrorists, in an exercise.
In a training exercise run by Border Patrol agents, Explorer scouts from Visalia, Calif., prepare to storm a “hijacked” bus.
Imperial County relies on the local criminal justice system.The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! — fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and masks affixed.
“United States Border Patrol! Put your hands up!” screams one in a voice cracking with adolescent determination as the suspect is subdued.
It is all quite a step up from the square knot.
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence — an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.
“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”
The training, which leaders say is not intended to be applied outside the simulated Explorer setting, can involve chasing down illegal border crossers as well as more dangerous situations that include facing down terrorists and taking out “active shooters,” like those who bring gunfire and death to college campuses. In a simulation here of a raid on a marijuana field, several Explorers were instructed on how to quiet an obstreperous lookout.
“Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,” a Border Patrol agent explained. “I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”
One participant, Felix Arce, 16, said he liked “the discipline of the program,” which was something he said his life was lacking. “I want to be a lawyer, and this teaches you about how crimes are committed,” he said.
Read the rest of the article here: The New York Times
(On a final note, do you think that there is a possibility that the pentagon will continue to direct our adult patriot military members with orders that are overseas? I am just trying to have readers put their critical thinking caps on.)
