Operation Tripwire Leg 7

Leg 7 — KDNA → KMRF Dona Ana County Airport → Marfa Municipal Santa Teresa, New Mexico → Marfa, Texas

Marfa’s isolated desert location and vast surrounding terrain have made it famous for mysterious lights, military history, and remote surveillance operations dating back to World War II.

The Ambush

By the time your aircraft reaches western Texas, the border crisis has become national news.

Entire highways are closed. Military convoys move through desert towns while surveillance aircraft blanket the skies from Arizona to the Gulf Coast.

Your mission now focuses on locating a suspected cartel forward operating base hidden within the mountains south of Marfa.

The crew finds it shortly before sunset.

Hidden beneath camouflage netting sits an improvised airstrip filled with fuel trucks, armed vehicles, and multiple aircraft.

Before imagery can be transmitted, your communications systems fail completely.

Then tracer fire erupts from the valley floor.

A second aircraft suddenly appears behind your position.

You are no longer observing the conflict.

You are inside it.