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    Texas'navy' to patrol the Rio Grande

    Texas is getting its own navy.

    Next month, the state's Department of Public Safety will deploy the first of a fleet of six gunboats on the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border between the state and Mexico, CNN affiliate WFAA-TV reports.

    The 34-foot-long boats, each powered by three, 300-horsepower outboard engines, will have bulletproof plating and six machine guns apiece, not unlike the river patrol boats the U.S. Navy used during the Vietnam War.

    The vessels will be able to operate in as little as 2 feet of water, according to the report, and will work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to combat drug smuggling coming across the Rio Grande.

    "They're finding out when those people are coming across, and one of the things they need to be able to do is interdict them on the water," Texas state Rep. Paul Workman told CNN affiliate KVUE-TV when the first of the boats, the JD Davis, was christened in December.

    "If you're trying to suppress organized smuggling activity, there's no substitute for putting people on the ground," Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven C. McCraw said at the December ceremony. "The way they're operating right now, you need them on the water as well."

    "It sends a message: Don't mess with Texas," Jose Rodriguez, a regional commander of the Texas Department of Safety, told WFAA.

    The six boats will be named after Texas state troopers killed in the line of duty. The first was named after Jerry Don Davis, who was shot and killed in 1980. Another, to be commissioned Thursday in Austin, will be named in honor of trooper David Irvine Rucker, who was killed in 1981, according to The Brownsville Herald.
    900hp hangin off the back. I imagine these move pretty good.
    Rich


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    Are you new?
    ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh

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      Tits or GTFO?
      If better suited to Armory move it I guess Rick ain't screwing around waiting on the Feds to help secure the border.
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        lol

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          Badass

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            I actually seen one of these monsters being pulled on Hwy 87 just east of San Antonio a couple of weeks ago.

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              You do realize the article you linked to was written on February 29 right?
              Why put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the next day?
              -Fred Sanford

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              • #8
                I need one for the lake to blast jetskies that get near us when I ski lol.... 900hp? These boats will be abused well
                Originally posted by Buzzo
                Some dudes jump out of airplanes, I fuck hookers without condoms.

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                • #9
                  Newbs...
                  Originally posted by Silverback
                  Look all you want, she can't find anyone else who treats her as bad as I do, and I keep her self esteem so low, she wouldn't think twice about going anywhere else.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by oh1bullitt View Post
                    You do realize the article you linked to was written on February 29 right?
                    Or right around the first of the many times it's been posted about on here.
                    "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by oh1bullitt View Post
                      You do realize the article you linked to was written on February 29 right?
                      So somehow that makes it irrelevant? Did you post about it then? I guess what I'm asking is what are you tryin' to say? Didn't see a link to it in your post.
                      Rich

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by 71chevellejohn View Post
                        Did it, yall crashed and lost it. Then expected me to somehow remember when I joined the first time and how many posts I had. I could not have cared so I joined again and started over last year.
                        My article is about patrolling lake falcon.
                        Rich

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                        • #13
                          Yeah, man. That's a repost.
                          ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh

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                          • #14
                            Texas has an actual Navy

                            2004 Suzuki DL650
                            1996 Hy-Tek Hurricane 103

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                              Originally posted by TexasT View Post
                              Did it, yall crashed and lost it. Then expected me to somehow remember when I joined the first time and how many posts I had. I could not have cared so I joined again and started over last year.
                              My article is about patrolling lake falcon.
                              We crashed and lost what? I don't remember a crash on this site - does anybody else?
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