The United States Border Patrol was officially created in 1924.
Seventy years later, in 1994, a young police officer in the Midwest
saw a chance to serve her country beyond the confines of Riley County, Kansas.
That young officer Carla L. Provost applied to the U.S. Border Patrol
and graduated as a proud member of Border Patrol Academy Class 277.
Chief Provost knows the border.
She has worked on the frontline in Arizona, California,
and Texas, steadily advancing in the ranks
and earning the admiration and respect of her subordinates and peers
as well as the recognition of CBP leadership
at Headquarters in Washington, DC.
From her earliest days as a member of the bicycle patrol unit,
Chief Provost quickly made her mark in Douglas, Arizona.
She earned the rank of Supervisory Border Patrol Agent
in just three years and then became a Field Operations Supervisor
just three years after that.
It was hard work as any Border Patrol agent on the front line knows.
But it was the perfect fit for Carla Provost,
who was raised with a strong sense of duty
and service to community and country.
Chief Provost coupled that unwavering work ethic
with a quest for knowledge, earning a Master of Science Degree
from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
Now leading 20,000 agents, Chief Provost
is no longer that "beat cop" in Riley County, Kansas.
Her "beat" is now 6,000 miles of Mexican
and Canadian international land borders
and 2,000 miles of coastal waters around California,
Florida, Louisiana, and Puerto Rico.
Chief Carla Provost
Personifying CBP's core values of Vigilance,
Service to Country, and Integrity.
Exemplifying the Border Patrol motto of "Honor First."