Shadow Wolves

**4V50 Gary** · December 23, 2002, 09:44 PM

Lurking in the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border is a little known, unsung group of Navajos. Dressed in camouflage and carrying M-16s and Glocks, they steality hunt the desert for their prey.

OK, enough hype. Don't get it from me guys. Go to your library and pick up this month's (Jan 2003) copy of Smithsonian Magazine. They've got an article of a twenty-one man all-Navajo unit of the Border Patrol Service. They're using their tracking skills for drug interdiction and have been hauling in about 60,000 lbs of marijuana a year. That's only 10% of the drugs coming through their reservation.

Good article and great pics. You'd think it was SoF.

Standing Wolf · December 23, 2002, 10:45 PM

I've known some good wolf people.

Schuey2002 · December 23, 2002, 11:16 PM

It looks like I'm going to the library on the 26th. ..

Chugach · December 24, 2002, 12:55 AM

We may be able to pick it up here

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smi...ccurrent.shtml

after the first of the year...don't know whether they show full pics with the article though.

Schuey2002 · December 24, 2002, 01:02 AM

I don't know about you, but I gotta have pics...

Chugach · December 24, 2002, 01:34 AM

Schuey, you bet! I don't know what they'll insert, but with my monitor it sure won't do the pics justice. Interesting that they put quite a bit of stuff in on the George Caitlin article, but the other articles look like simple summaries with no attachments.

To the library!

**4V50 Gary** · December 24, 2002, 11:00 AM

Thanks for the link Chugach. That's last month issue right now (Dec. 24) and there's no pics in the Manhattan article. Too bad because there was a picture of Five Corners and in the printed edition the caption quoted Davy Crockett who visited the area. It said something to the extent that he would rather "risque" fighting Indians than go to that neighborhood at night. When a man who "kills a bar at three" won't go to a particular neighborhood in Manhattan, doesn't that tell you something?

BTW, I'd love to spend 1 year learning from those guys. My own time, my own money. What an adventure that would be.

dev_null · December 24, 2002, 11:20 AM

Makes sense -- Crook used Dine' scouts in the Apache wars -- but I'm surprised they don't have an Apache troop. If anyone would know the border, it'd be the Apache, Pima and Yaqui.

Fry Bread Power!

-0-

LawDog · December 24, 2002, 01:53 PM

http://cryptome.org/shadow-wolves.htm

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/2001-09-27/feat.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70147,00.html

http://www.press-on.net/articles/10-18shadow_wolves.htm

http://www.nbc4.tv/newslinks/1776168/detail.html

LawDog

December 23, 2002, 09:44 PM	#1
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 21,855	Shadow Wolves Lurking in the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border is a little known, unsung group of Navajos. Dressed in camouflage and carrying M-16s and Glocks, they steality hunt the desert for their prey. OK, enough hype. Don't get it from me guys. Go to your library and pick up this month's (Jan 2003) copy of Smithsonian Magazine. They've got an article of a twenty-one man all-Navajo unit of the Border Patrol Service. They're using their tracking skills for drug interdiction and have been hauling in about 60,000 lbs of marijuana a year. That's only 10% of the drugs coming through their reservation. Good article and great pics. You'd think it was SoF. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*

December 23, 2002, 10:45 PM	#2
Standing Wolf Member in memoriam Join Date: April 26, 2002 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,649	I've known some good wolf people. __________________ No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.

December 24, 2002, 12:55 AM	#4
Chugach Senior Member Join Date: July 24, 2002 Location: Alaska Posts: 172	We may be able to pick it up here http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smi...ccurrent.shtml after the first of the year...don't know whether they show full pics with the article though. __________________ No such thing as bad weather, just bad gear... "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenet

December 24, 2002, 01:34 AM	#6
Chugach Senior Member Join Date: July 24, 2002 Location: Alaska Posts: 172	Schuey, you bet! I don't know what they'll insert, but with my monitor it sure won't do the pics justice. Interesting that they put quite a bit of stuff in on the George Caitlin article, but the other articles look like simple summaries with no attachments. To the library! __________________ No such thing as bad weather, just bad gear... "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenet

December 24, 2002, 11:00 AM	#7
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 21,855	Thanks for the link Chugach. That's last month issue right now (Dec. 24) and there's no pics in the Manhattan article. Too bad because there was a picture of Five Corners and in the printed edition the caption quoted Davy Crockett who visited the area. It said something to the extent that he would rather "risque" fighting Indians than go to that neighborhood at night. When a man who "kills a bar at three" won't go to a particular neighborhood in Manhattan, doesn't that tell you something? BTW, I'd love to spend 1 year learning from those guys. My own time, my own money. What an adventure that would be. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!* Last edited by 4V50 Gary; December 24, 2002 at 11:24 AM.

December 23, 2002, 11:16 PM	#3
Schuey2002 Senior Member Join Date: September 21, 2002 Posts: 854	It looks like I'm going to the library on the 26th. ..

December 24, 2002, 01:02 AM	#5
Schuey2002 Senior Member Join Date: September 21, 2002 Posts: 854	I don't know about you, but I gotta have pics...

December 24, 2002, 11:20 AM	#8
dev_null Senior Member Join Date: June 23, 2002 Location: Austin TX Posts: 615	Makes sense -- Crook used Dine' scouts in the Apache wars -- but I'm surprised they don't have an Apache troop. If anyone would know the border, it'd be the Apache, Pima and Yaqui. Fry Bread Power! -0- __________________ The plural of anecdote is NOT "data."

December 24, 2002, 01:53 PM	#9
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