Border operation ending for Guard





Personnel freed up Border Patrol for law enforcement
By Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

May 30, 2008

One windy afternoon last week at the border fence, a construction platform carrying a crew of National Guard personnel moved slowly along the barrier, sparks flying from blowtorches as the guardsmen straightened and retrofitted the steel posts. For most of them, it would be their last task on the border.


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Spec. Jonathan Wood of the National Guard worked last week on a project to retrofit the secondary fence between the Otay Mesa and San Ysidro ports of entry.


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National Guard personnel are wrapping up a two-year project assisting the Border Patrol with nonenforcement jobs such as retrofitting secondary steel-mesh fence between the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry.
“I'll go wherever they want me to go,â€