Just in case you haven’t heard, the State of Texas now has three heavily armed boats patrolling the border with Mexico – something the federal government ought to be doing.
According to a recent story from Houston’s Channel 11 – KHOU, the fleet has now grown to four and will soon be six.
Charged with interdicting drug smuggling, the boats patrol Falcon Lake and the Rio Grande in high traffic areas.
The black-and-white patrol vessels come with fully automatic weapons, ballistic shielding, and night vision capabilities. Each boat is equipped with six FN M240B medium machine guns chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO. Each 34-foot vessel is powered by three 300-hp outboard motors.
It seems particularly fitting that each vessel is named for a highway patrolman killed in the line of duty. The first three boats are the Bill Davidson, the J.D. Davis and the David Rucker.
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