And during one crossing, a border guard grilled him about what college he attended.
Media reports identified the attacker as a Jewish man in his 40s formerly employed as a paramilitary border guard.
But when a border guard is pressing a pistol into your waist, well, Trans-Dniester seems very real.
As Captain Sylwester Tarniecki of the regional border guard admits, policing this wild border is an imperfect business.
"The Wagah border had become his home, and everybody here was his family, " said one border guard, Asim.
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Toledano was kidnapped on his way to his border guard base in 1992.
The teacher says he guessed male but the border guard knew better.
One famous photo shows border guard Conrad Schumann, rifle casually slung on his shoulder, leaping over coils of barbed wire on Bernauer Strasse.
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Shafiqur Rahman, a deputy commanding officer of the Bangladesh Border Guard in Teknaf, said his guards detained at least 110 people from Myanmar on Wednesday.
The fire service earlier said that rough seas were complicating the rescue efforts by the Fire and Rescue Service, National Border Guard, Coast Guard and military officials.
Under Germany's highly decentralised federal system, the police (other than the federal border guard), the judiciary and the education service are all the responsibility of the individual states.
Another border guard was jailed for life for his alleged role in the incident at the Arkankergen post near Almaty, after he had reportedly confessed to the authorities.
In January, seven vessels from Spain, Britain, France, Portugal and Italy set sail from Gibraltar to patrol the southern Mediterranean, in a first step towards a common European border guard.
The chief of staff, Yousef Mangoush, organized a more professional border guard unit to patrol there as well as a separate unit to guard critical infrastructure facilities like oil fields and barracks where foreign oil company employees work and live.
Travellers stand in front of the kiosk to answer the yes or no questions, and if any unexpected physiological responses are picked up by the detectors then the person is passed on to a real border guard who conducts a more intensive interview.
"The boat was trying to recover one passenger who fell down from the boat and later on the boat could not control the momentum and it went down inside the water, " Lt Col Zahid Hasan, a senior Bangladesh border guard official, told the BBC.
One Afghan border police guard was killed and two Pakistani troops injured in violence on Wednesday.
And there will be families that have to deal with reduced hours if a father or mother is a border security guard or an air traffic controller.
In its latest progress report on Poland's fitness to join the European Union, which it hopes to do next year, the European Commission scolded Warsaw for not doing enough to tackle graft, especially in the police and border-guard services.
Though undermanned, Border Patrol and Coast Guard officials try to disrupt the smuggling trips before they begin.
They also argued that coordinating key agencies like the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Customs under one department could minimize bureaucracy by eliminating overlap.
The Irish government has told hauliers they will need special permits to move animals from any farm, more soldiers have been called in to guard the border, and this month's St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, due to take place on March 17, has also been called off.
More seriously, Italy is sending the bulk of 600 men who will help guard ports and border crossings.
Roshanak Wardak, the MP, thinks foreign troops should guard the Pakistani border and leave domestic security in Afghan hands.
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Obama on Wednesday told regional newspaper reporters that he would consider sending the National Guard to the border if the situation escalated.
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In Argentina, the government has sent units of the border police and a naval guard to the rustbelt suburbs of Buenos Aires.
He is calling the National Guard to the border with Mexico.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, Coast Guard members and a Carnival team were expected to board the ship before it arrived in port to help speed efforts to get passengers off as quickly as possible, he said.
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