SOUTHCOM Photos

Latin American Cadets visit SOUTHCOM air component

National Defense College students talk about helicopter capabilities with subject matter experts during a visit to Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, Oct. 25, 2018.

National Defense College students stand for a photo after their aircraft tours at Soto Cano Air Base (SCAB), Honduras, Oct. 25, 2018.

Canadian Forces Master Corporal Kristian Tam, discusses field medicine techniques during a multi-nation information exchange meeting on medicine in a tactical environment with American and Ecuadorian service members.

Canadian Forces Master Corporal Kristian Tam, discusses field medicine techniques during a multi-nation information exchange meeting on medicine in a tactical environment with American and Ecuadorian service members.

The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) at sea.

Senior Master Sgt. Angel Correa, an airborne sensor operator and linguist with the Host Nation Rider program, a component of the larger National Guard Counterdrug program, used his Spanish language skills and knowledge of maritime communications during the rescue of four boaters off Costa Rica's southern coast in mid-October. The rescue was a first for Correa, who was aboard a Coast Guard HC-130 Super Hercules aircraft in a joint counterdrug operation when he coordinated the rescue efforts.

Chilean Air Force Maj. F. Marin, a C-130 pilot with the N10 Squadron, lines up the lenses on night vision goggles July 24, 2018, at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas. Marin visited the wing as part of the State Partnership Program, which forges mutually beneficial partnerships with some of the 136th Airlift Wing’s staunchest allies and partners worldwide.

Cadets from Chile's Bernardo O'Higgins Military Academy experience technology day at Fort Benning. The cadets had hands-on experience at Clarke Simulations Center operating the Virtual Battlespace 3 and the Reconfigurable Vehicle Simulator. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)

Army Capt. Christin Folker treats a patient in Ecuador.

Ecuadorian Army Brig. Gen. Franklin Gustavo Acosta, commander, Joint Task Force Esmeraldas, talks to patients aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort.

U.S. military officers present a gift to Ecuadorian Adm. Lenin Sanchez, inspector general of the Ecuadorian navy.

A physical therapist massages a patient’s neck muscles.

Medical personnel aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) perform a hernia repair surgery.

A surgeon wraps a patient’s eye after performing cataract surgery in an operating room aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort.

Tyler Wordsworth, senior trade commissioner, Embassy of Canada, talks with Canadian military members.

Doctors talk with patients in Ecuador.

Crew members from the Peruvian submarine BAP Arica (SS-36) pose for group photos in front of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Maryland

Capt. Robert Wirth, commodore of Submarine Squadron 20, presents Cmdr. Enrique Vargas, captain of Peruvian Submarine BAP Arica (SS-36), with a commemorative photo of the Kings Bay submarine fleet.

Lt. Cmdr. Amanda Antonio, officer-in-charge of one of two medical sites, escorts Ambassador Liliana Ayalde, civilian deputy to the commander, foreign policy advisor, U.S. Southern Command, around the medical site.