9/11 led to changes across Hi-Line

Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Gerald Kassin, left, hits intermediate use of force instructor and Agent Jonathan Duquette with a training baton during non-lethal force recertification training Wednesday afternoon at the Border Patrol Station in Havre. Duquette said the training is done annually.

The world has changed since terrorists attacked major U. S. targets on Sept. 11, 2001, and north-central Montana has changed with it.

Some of the changes are obvious — more people in federal uniforms in towns and patrolling the region, higher security in place at Havre's airpor...