azcentral.com
October 2, 2012
The badlands of southern Arizona are treacherous to the men and women we send to protect our national border with Mexico. The terrain is jagged, the sunlight scorching, and the place teems with drug traffickers, human smugglers and bandits.
Add to those threats one more. Darkness. The kind that comes when communication radios are useless because they cannot transmit or receive signals.
Throughout the border area, there are “dead spots” where radio contact can be lost and U.S. Border Patrol agents lose their lifeline to the outside world.
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