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Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Hailey Lisska, left, instructs a course on tactical combat casualty care for members of the U.S. Air Force, the Trinidad and Tobago military, and the French army during Tradewinds 25 in Teteron Bay, Trinidad and Tobago, April 30, 2025. The annual exercise enhances regional stability and demonstrates U.S. coordination with allies and partners.
Airmen Test Combat Readiness During Caribbean Exercise
By | May 16, 2025
Special operations airmen tested resiliency, adaptiveness and ability to integrate logistics with other nations during Exercise Tradewinds 25 in Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua, Martinique and Puerto Rico.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (May 1, 2025)  Noncommissioned officers from the United States and the Dominican Republic engage in a guided discussion with enlisted service members from the Dominican Republic during a weeklong subject matter expert exchange at the School of Infantry for the Enlisted Military of the Dominican Republic May 1, 2025. U.S. service members from Southern Command, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, out of Fort Moore, Georgia, and the U.S. Army’s Noncommissioned Officer Leadership Center of Excellence out of Fort Bliss, Texas, led a course alongside Dominican noncommissioned officers on the professional development of enlisted military members and career progression.
US, Dominican Republic Militaries Partner to Develop Enlisted Leaders
By Master Sgt. Michael Cifuentes | May 15, 2025
A group of enlisted leaders from the United States Army kicked off a subject matter expert exchange with fellow enlisted leaders from the Dominican Republic’s military just outside of the Caribbean nation’s capital in Santo Domingo – further progressing the professional development of noncommissioned officers in the Dominican armed services.

U.S. and Honduran infantrymen ruck at Mariscal Zavala, Guatemala, May 12, 2025. As part of CENTAM Guardian 25, infantrymen from Honduras, U.S., El Salvador and Guatemala, rucked to their exercise site where they will execute specific survival tactics in the Guatemalan jungles.
Arkansas Guard Participates in CENTAM Guardian 2025 in Guatemala
By John Oldham, | May 14, 2025
More than 60 Arkansas National Guardsmen are participating in CENTAM Guardian 2025 in Guatemala. CENTAM Guardian 2025 is an annual multi-national exercise designed to strengthen interoperability, information sharing and counter-threat capabilities between the United States and participating Central American and Caribbean partner nations.

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CARIBBEAN SEA (April 10, 2015) The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) sit at anchor during Continuing Promise 2015. Continuing Promise is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored and U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet-conducted deployment to conduct civil-military operations including humanitarian-civil assistance, subject matter expert exchanges, medical, dental, veterinary and engineering support and disaster response to partner nations and to show U.S. support and commitment to Central and South America and the Caribbean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Gary Johnson/Released)
Continuing Promise 2025 Set to Begin
By U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command / U.S. 4th Fleet | May 14, 2025
The U.S. Navy Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) will deploy this June-August to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations as part of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet's Continuing Promise 2025 mission. After several months of detailed planning, USNS Comfort is scheduled to visit Grenada, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Dominican Republic during the nearly three month-long mission.

COLÓN, Panama (May 13, 2025) –  Members of the Army Corps of Engineer’s Forward Engineer Support Team – Advance (FEST-A) out of New York, alongside the Governor of Colón, Julio Hernández Gregorie, center right, receive a tour of the water treatment facilities around Colón, Panama on May 13, 2025. FEST-A is conducting infrastructure assessments in coordination with the city of Colón to help build upon the expanded partnership initiatives between Panama and the United States. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Daniel James Lanari/Released)
U.S. Engineering Team Assesses Colón, Panama’s Infrastructure Challenges, Strengthening Bilateral Partnership
By Maj. Jason Elmore | May 14, 2025
A team from the U.S. Army’s 553rd Forward Engineer Support Team-Advance (FEST-A) drove around important parts of the city of Colón, Panama, surveying the stormwater and wastewater systems on May 13, 2025. The survey was designed to find ways to bolster the ongoing partnership between the United States and Panama while addressing one of Panama’s largest city’s long-standing infrastructure issues.
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