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Border Guards are people usually paid by a government (and often part of the army), whose job is to prevent people from illegally crossing the border, and stop the smuggling of illegal items such as drugs and weapons.[1][2][3]
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Sometimes the border guard includes a coast guard to guard borders in the sea and conduct rescue missions at sea.
In the West Asia and North Africa border guards use some transport and tactics specific to the local environment.
Camel riding: Camel-riding border guards are useful because of the difficulty of the desert climate and the roughness of the roads that cars cannot drive on, especially in the narrow mountain paths. These individuals are usually from the same environment as the place where they are serving.
Trackers: Some guards are Bedouins who are trained from an early age to track and identify people from footprints and other traces that may be hidden from the untrained eye.
Border Guards caught the attention of Egyptian filmmakers, and several Egyptian movies are about border guards:
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