[Milsurplus] Their radios don't work???! Hmm,...

[Joe Foley]

Is there anything we can do about the radio situation
here?  Is there anyone local to these people that can
assess the situation and report back?

Is there really any good reason whey they have
non-working radios?

Joe


> FYI - Interesting...
> (thx larry f)
> 
> 
> Most Dangerous National Parks 2003
> 
> http://www.rangerfop.com/danger03.htm
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -Monday, June 23, 2003
> Contact: Randall Kendrick - randallfop at ls.net
> 800-407-8295 
> 
> RANGERS ANNOUNCE TEN MOST DANGEROUS NATIONAL PARKS
> 
> BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY, Virginia --The U.S. Park Rangers
> Lodge of
> the Fraternal Order of Police announced its list of
> the Ten Most
> Dangerous National Parks, naming Arizona's Organ
> Pipe Cactus
> National Monument as the Most Dangerous National
> Park for the
> third year in a row.
> 
> The list for 2003:
> 
> 1. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (Arizona):
> After the murder of 
> NPS Ranger Kris Eggle, the NPS bolstered its force
> at the monument with 
> tactical teams, since removed, and has failed to
> restore staff levels to 
> previous levels. Despite Congressional hearings
> where tapes of hundreds 
> of aliens marching through campgrounds at night were
> shown, and 
> significant media attention garnered, the park is
> still swarming with 
> potentially violent smugglers of drugs and illegal
> aliens, and possible 
> threats to homeland security. Rangers estimate that
> at least 250 illegal 
> aliens cross through the park each night.
> 
> 2. Amistad National Recreation Area (Texas): Another
> smugglers paradise, 
> Amistad shares the same problems of drug and alien
> smuggling as Organ 
> Pipe. Seven rangers attempt to hold the line on 85
> miles of an 
> international border. With days off, it means that
> only one or two are 
> on at any given hour of the day, and at night, the
> park is turned over 
> to the smugglers. The few rangers are supported by
> an inoperable radio 
> system that is so old that replacement parts are no
> longer manufactured.
> 
> Growing attention to the threat holds the promise of
> three new boats for 
> the rangers, and a potential significant staff
> increase. In the  
> meantime, the few remaining rangers are at
> significant risk.
> 
> 3. Big Bend National Park (Texas): Imagine a place
> on the border where 
> law enforcement is ordered by management to allow
> illegal aliens into 
> the country, and to avoid the border area entirely
> if crime is 
> suspected. Such is the story at Big Bend, where the
> park superintendent 
> has chosen to confront crime by surrendering to it.
> The park has 
> blatantly violated NPS orders to hire law
> enforcement staff before 
> hiring other personnel, leaving the few remaining
> rangers understaffed, 
> unsupported, and overwhelmed. Big Bend is a classic
> example of a 
> preventable ranger death waiting to happen in the
> park with the largest 
> boundary with Mexico.
> 
> 4. Lake Mead National Recreation Area
> (Nevada/Arizona): Despite multiple 
> congressional appropriations for 24-hour patrol
> coverage over the years, 
> law enforcement goes home at night due to continued
> staff shortages, 
> leaving the park for drunk drivers, drunk boaters,
> and Las Vegas-based 
> gang members. The only National Park with its own
> armored car, Lake Mead 
> has at least 17 fewer rangers than last year.
> 
> 5. Coronado National Memorial (Arizona): A small
> park with a very big 
> problem of drugs, smugglers, and a staff too small
> to make a difference. 
> Each evening brings a parade of crime marching
> through the park. Drug 
> networks collect intelligence on park operations to
> better gauge how to 
> successfully infiltrate the country.
> 
> 6. Biscayne National Park (Florida): Lots of drug
> smuggling, illegal 
> fishing, and a nuclear power plant threatened by
> terrorists, mean danger 
> for a ranger force that is small and getting
> smaller. While the Coast 
> Guard never sends a boat out at Biscayne with fewer
> than four officers, 
> the NPS sends its rangers out on the open ocean
> alone.
> 
> 7. Shenandoah National Park (Virginia): With a radio
> system out of the 
> 1950s, known as the worst radio system in the
> National Park Service, the 
> understaffed ranger workforce is coping with a large
> number of armed 
> poachers and encroaching suburban crime. The ranger
> staff has been cut 
> in violation of NPS policy, without public outcry or
> repercussions from 
> Washington.
> 
> 8. Delaware Water Gap (New Jersey/Pennsylvania):
> Once one of the best 
> law enforcement programs in the NPS, Delaware Water
> Gap now has half the 
> rangers in the field it did in the mid 1990s. At
> night, only one or two 
> rangers are on patrol. They've been instructed to
> avoid patrolling high 
> crime areas. The park, within an easy drive of both
> the New York and 
> Philadelphia metro areas, has a major highway
> through it, bringing in 
> crime that is often ignored. Although visitation is
> heavy and crime 
> flourishing, the rangers are on the defensive and
> losing ground.
> 
> 9. Edison National Historic Site (West Orange, New
> Jersey): Troubles of 
> the big city, from a soaring murder rate to gang
> activity, has this 
> small park surrounded, and rangers outmanned and
> outgunned. Rangers are 
> denied pepper spray, shotguns and rifles, and access
> to a dispatch, 
> despite being assigned to work without backup in an
> area of growing 
> urban crime.
> 
> Threatened by vandals and burglars, the park is
> closed to visitors, with 
> Edison's irreplaceable treasures under siege behind
> a fence. Yet there 
> is no 24-hour law enforcement presence, or even a
> burglar alarm to 
> protect the historic artifacts, some made by the
> hands of Thomas Edison 
> himself.
> 
> 10. Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming): At the
> beginning of the 2003 
> season Yellowstone eliminated its entire seasonal
> law enforcement staff. 
> This forced rangers into solo patrols on the roads,
> few patrols in the 
> backcountry, and a dangerous lack of backup in a
> park with a growing 
> incident load. Although the staff has been growing
> through the summer, 
> it is still well below last years level, and still
> in violation of NPS 
> policy on staffing levels.
> 
> The 2003 list of Dangerous National Parks reflects
> the greater dangers 
> facing NPS rangers in smaller, less-visited National
> Park areas such as 
> Amistad National Recreation Area near Del Rio,
> Texas, and Coronado 
> National Monument in Arizona . small parks in
> isolated areas with 
> minimal staff combating an invasion of drugs,
> smugglers, and violent 
> criminals.
> 
> Crime on the southern border is not the only threat
> park rangers face.
> 
> At Edison National Historic Site in New Jersey, the
> quiet laboratory of 
> 
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