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Overly works with agents and officers to help them feel comfortable in deep-water situations when they are fatigued and out of breath and strength, and she teaches them how to better understand their individual bodies in a water environment to keep them calm and focused when they are in the field. Special Operations Forces and includes running, shooting, rucking (hiking with a heavy backpack), swimming, treading water, and “drown-proofing,” according to a CBP website.
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The course is mirrored like those taken on by candidates for U.S. In order to make this unit, officers must pass a “rigorous” monthlong selection and training course that begins in mid-October in El Paso, Overly said. BORTAC was formed in 1984 and has evolved to include intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance foreign law enforcement/Border Patrol capacity building airmobile operations maritime operations and precision marksman/observer, according to a CBP website. In addition, those who qualify for this unit must also be trained marksmen, swift runners and be able to quickly hike many kilometers with weighted backpacks.
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Officers must be physically skilled in several disciplines, including swimming certain distances in a set time, and treading water in full uniform and boots for several minutes while holding various objects.
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Overly, 58, said she had actually retired from a life of training and coaching, but a CBP officer asked her if she would help him shore up his water skills in August 2018. Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents to whom she has given private water lessons this past year. But she says she has never met a more dedicated and committed group of students than the dozen U.S. This Ironman triathlete has been a personal trainer, fitness facility owner, swim instructor and certified triathlon coach for years. McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) - Sandy Overly has spent her entire adult life coaching athletes, including herself and her family.