If the public drew a strong line between bootlegging and more nefarious forms of aerial smuggling, Rodgers makes clear that line was easily crossed as he and his racketeer/supplier from the Mexican side of the border "operated together, six or seven years, dealing in liquor, arms and ammunition, watches, perfumes, silk, and even smuggling Chinamen in."26 He did so with the complicity of Army Air Services officers at Fort McIntosh in Laredo as well as at Brooks Field in San Antonio having bought them off with whiskey. A single load of Whiskey in the Lincoln Standard brought in $8000 (about $106,000 in 2014 dollars). Perhaps the most important observation from Rodgers' memoir is that the airplane was part of an integrated multi-modal transportation network that employed movement "by car, by truck, by train, sometimes even on freights."27 His movements were not without risk and the enormous profits created an equal zeal among federal law enforcement. His aircraft sustained small arms damage while crossing the border, but he discovered that by acquiring an identical looking aircraft, he could decoy Prohibition agents easily. Colonel Bert "Fish" Haskell, who had pioneered operations at Chicago's Midway Airport, was also a prolific bootlegger, though only for two years (as compared to Rodger's seven). Like many most aerial bootleggers, Haskell's time as a smuggler was only one chapter of a much longer career. In the mid-twenties, he found that bootlegging offered greater reward than airmail flying and was less hazardous. He operated out of the Lincoln School of Aviation in Nebraska which used flight instruction and barnstorming as cover for operations that ran beer and whiskey from both Canada and Mexico to customers in Omaha and Lincoln. The activity was highly organized and the operation was well supported with ample infrastructure including warning systems of Dry agents in the area along with safe houses and safe landing sites.