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Richard Falco
www.falcophotography.com Andrea Roubal was born in Czechoslovakia. Her family moved to the United States legally when the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was raging. Because her father & mother were highly educated, the State Department placed them in housing and helped her father find a job. Andrea enrolled in school and began to learn English. After high school she enlisted in the US Army, even though she wasn’t a citizen at that point. Once her tour was finished, she enrolls in college to study law enforcement. Gaining her citizenship, she applied for a job with the Border Patrol and was accepted. Now she navigates across an emotional border of two lives, her past and her present.
Using four-wheel drive vehicles, ATVs, and Infrared technology, the border patrol works daily to stop the flow of aliens across the border. The terrain is rough, dry, and unforgiving.
One of the border patrol’s best tools for observation and capture uses Forward Looking Infrared Technology. Known as FLIR units, these large vans, stationed on a height, send out an infrared beam that scan specific sectors of the terrain. Infra-red sensors detect heat. This enables an agent in the van to see an entire sketch of a body on a screen as it moves. The agent can then directs roving border patrol vehicles positioned in the area by radio to the exact position. The technology is so precise and efficient it can see in complete darkness. Individuals or groups hiding behind bushes or rocks cannot evade the infrared.
Andrea is married to another border patrol agent. |
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