Updae From JJ

Things heated up late Thursday afternoon around 4:30 PM. A large
group of the Campo MM were enjoying the shade of a large oak tree
down in the area known as the "oaks." One of our party (Charlie 1
from the Palm Springs area), who was riding his off road motorcycle,
took off to go out to Bell Canyon, which is out West of the "oaks"
position. He hadn't gone more than 50 yards or so when he found
himself smack dab in the middle of a migrating herd of illegals,
which were on both sides of the road, in the road, and trying
unsuccessfully to crouch down in the two foot high bushes at that
point. The illegals were around 20 in number, and were taken
completely by surprise by Charlie's quiet running motorcycle! As
Charlie was dressed totally in black riding leathers, helmet, and
holstered Glock nine side arm, as well as a cased TV camera, he was
temporarily as surprised as the illegals, who were by now reversing
their planned migration direction from north, to a more southerly
direction... he said that he was keeping his hand on his holstered
gun, while trying to get his camera out to film with, while trying to
keep his bike from falling over, and...you get the picture... Well,
needless to say, the Mexicans slid back down through that culvert
much faster than they had come up out of it. All Charlie 1 could do
was to look at the illegals and their "coyote" disappearing back into
Mexico, as their lookout flipped him "the bird" for nixing their mini
invasion of the good old USA. Border Patrol later said they tracked
the 20 person group westward towards Tecate until losing them...
I was up shortly before daylight and made my usual morning mobile
patrol. Charlie 1 and Ridgerunner were the only two MM up that I saw
or spoke with, but Kingfish was probably up, just maintaining radio
silence, which is the way it should be...
On my way down the hill around 7:00AM I met a B.P. Agent who has been
stationed in Campo for a long time, including a year of running the
big infra red light trucks. He said he wanted to really thank us
(Campo MM) for what we have done on the Border since we have been "on
the line." He said that we have made "one hell of a difference!"
Believe me, that was music to my ears! We talked for some 15 minutes
or so, and I arrived in Campo, near the Fire station, where I saw a
fairly good sized contingent of National Guard troopers assembling.
I just had to stop and chew the fat with a couple of them for about 5
minutes, or so. They said that there ARE about FIVE infantry
soldiers on the ground at Campo! The rest are Engineers, Chemical
Warfare, etc. He said not to say I heard it from him, but that there
ARE a FEW Army Scouts here, but not very many. I thanked him, and
proceeded on to breakfast. The TOTAL size of the group I would
estimate to be around 15-20 men.

Reporting history as it is being made,

J J
Campo MM