Gen. Tomás Miguel Miné Ribeiro Paiva (left), Southwest Army Commander, speaks during the opening ceremony of Southern Vanguard 22 at 5th Light Infantry Battalion in Lorena, Brazil, Dec. 6, 2021. Southern Vanguard 22 was planned as a 10-day air assault operation and was the largest deployment of a U.S. Army unit to train with the Brazilian army forces in Brazil.