Austin -- 21, from Tacoma, Washington -- was part of a two-man patrol at Camp Linda south of Tuzla.

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It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick--professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truckdrivers.

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He said a uniformed patrol was threatened by a man who the police say appeared to be carrying a firearm.

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Several off-duty Border Patrol agents "tackled" the man and a sheriff's deputy removed him from the theater.

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Mellia said the Border Patrol is investigating whether the Jamaican man is part of an illegal immigrant smuggling operation.

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The patrol fired a small flare in the man's direction, and he fled.

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They were in a fire-fight while on patrol in Helmand province in which an Afghan man, thought to be an off-duty policeman, also died.

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Today, a young man approached U.S. soldiers on patrol in the Mansour district of Baghdad.

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Pc Roper was heard to get out of the patrol car and open the rear door to handcuff the man in the back.

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As a point man, Staff Sergeant Miller was at the front of the patrol, cut off from supporting elements and less than 20 meters from enemy forces.

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In between the two main fences is 150 feet of "no man's land, " an area that the Border Patrol sweeps with flood lights and trucks, and soon, surveillance cameras.

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