Old 03-12-2007, 17:49   #1
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258335,00.html
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Report: Native American Trackers to Hunt Terrorists at Afghan Border

Monday, March 12, 2007


A world-reknowned elite group of Native American trackers used by the U.S. Customs to hunt down Mexican drug and people smugglers reportedly is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan’s borders, where Usama bin Laden has been known to hide.

The Shadow Wolves unit, recruited from tribes including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache, which patrols a 76-mile stretch of Arizona-Mexico border, is being sent to areas along the Afghan border to teach local units the traditional method called "cutting sign" of finding and following clues on the barren landscape, London's Sunday Times reported.

The Pentagon and the State Department, however, could not confirm the report the report to FOXNews.com, according to a Pentagon official.

The Shadow Wolves were expected to teach local border units ancestral sign-reading methods called "cutting sign," which include detecting twigs broken by humans, hair caught on a branch and how to determine how long a sliver of food may have lain in the dirt.
The unit was founded in the early 1970s to stem the flow of marijuana into the United States from Mexico and has located people smugglers across hundreds of square miles of the Tohono O’odham tribal reservation southwest of Tucson, Ariz.

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Old 03-14-2007, 15:04   #2
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The army has a Tracking school here in AZ down at FT. H.
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Old 03-15-2007, 09:35   #3
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Good post, Thank you.

I'd love to have those guys come hunting with me.
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Old 11-22-2011, 12:29   #4
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Shadow Wolves in AZ

Good story about these trackers. Sadly, bureaucratic PC bull-honkey rears it's ugly head again, and these men are short-staffed.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,5609688.story
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Old 11-22-2011, 14:03   #5
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Been a while since the last Native American made War Chief........

I ain't sayin'................but they do have horses over there................
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On the last page of the LA Times article, it states that there has been a hiring freeze for two years while they study whether it is legal to hire native Americans only. Really. I would find out who asked that question and fire him/her/it on the spot for Dumbassery...
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On the last page of the LA Times article, it states that there has been a hiring freeze for two years while they study whether it is legal to hire native Americans only. Really. I would find out who asked that question and fire him/her/it on the spot for Dumbassery...
F*^ken PC is getting to a point where I think we won't make a decision unless we first ask the sheeple what do they want to hear,what a f*^ken mess this country is getting itself into..........

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On the last page of the LA Times article, it states that there has been a hiring freeze for two years while they study whether it is legal to hire native Americans only. Really. I would find out who asked that question and fire him/her/it on the spot for Dumbassery...
They won't hire the tried and tested, knowledgeable trackers, yet they hire these guys:
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct...rrupt-20111017

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