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The Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR) is one of two police tactical units in the Special Operations Group, under the United States Border Patrol (USBP). The unit is trained in emergency search and rescue, medical evacuation (medevac), and tactical emergency medical services (TEMS) response in hazardous environments.
That same year, Border Patrol, Search, Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR), a specialized unit trained in emergency search and rescue, was established with the purpose of assisting injured or stranded aliens at remote locations. [47] In 2002, the first "rescue beacons" were installed in desert areas considered especially dangerous. [48]
There will be increased deployments of the U.S. Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR) teams amid increasing heat emergencies among undocumented migrants in the El Paso region.
In 2007, the U.S. Border Patrol joined two units, the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) and the Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR), to form the U.S. Border Patrol's Special Operations Group (SOG), [23] headquartered in El Paso, Texas. BORTAC and BORSTAR direct their nationally dispersed assets from the SOG, providing the ...
The latest class of Border Patrol BORSTAR agents completed a grueling course in field rescues and tactical medicine.
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Still, like many agents, Gil ‒ one of the few to clear the bar into the agency's two elite forces, the Border Patrol Tactical Unit and the Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit ‒ hasn ...