A Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Agent stands in front of a Georgia Army National Guard LUH-72 Lakota before they take off on an aerial detection and monitoring mission as part of Operation River Watch II on the U.S. border with Mexico in Texas. The Georgia National Guard volunteered to deploy to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for all of 2014 to support the Border Patrol in their mission to prevent the entry of terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, illegal contraband, and to disrupt illegal aliens from crossing the river into the United States. (Georgia Army National Guard photo by Maj. Will Cox/Released)