US Border Patrol Expo and Night at the Border Patrol Museum

Each year the US Border Patrol Special Operations Group Morale, Welfare and Recreation (SOG MWR) Association hosts a Law Enforcement Equipment and Technology Expo. SOG MWR partners with Special Forces Chapter IX to provide event support both for the display day and the range demonstration day. This year the SOG MWR Equipment and Technology Expo will be held 5-6 May 2021. With Day One (the vendor display day) scheduled at the Centennial CLub on Biggs Army Airfield-East Fort Bliss and Day Two (the range demonstration day) at the Fort Bliss Rod and Gun Club.

This event 17 years ago as the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) Force Modernization Conference, this event now called the 'Expo" attracts a hundred or more vendors, ranging from clothing to firearms, from radios to cameras, from medical gear to specialized vehicles and accesories - and everything in between. And it still is the only unit driven trade and technology show in the country.

Each year Chapter IX and VFW 812 hosts a dinner and get together for vendors at VFW 812 on the night before the Expo begins. This year that will be on 4 May 2021.

What is different about this year's event, besides the gratitude of everyone at geting their COVID restricted freedoms back, is that the Border Patrol Foundation (BPF) is partnering with the Border Patrol National Museum, located on Trans Mountain Road, to host a joint BPF - Border Patrol Museum event on the night of 5 May 2021 - which is Cinco de Mayo by the way - called the 'Night at the Border Patrol Museum' where presentations by the BPF will be made and food - drinks available as will prerusing the museum displays. This is a fundraising deal for the BPF and Museum so tickets will have to purchased - available on line at the BPF Website, or at the SOG Expo or at the door of the Museum the night of the event.

This is a worthy event to support as he Border Patrol Foundation is a first class organization that provides support to disabled or injured Border Patrol agents and to the families of fallen agents - virtually any Border Patrol family in need.