U.S. Southern Command Photo Gallery
SOUTHCOM Celebrates 60 Years of Service
U.S. counterdrug operations in the Caribbean, circa 2000. U.S. Southern Command involvement in counter illicit trafficking began in 1983. In 1989, the George Bush administration (1989-93) asked the U.S. military to detect and monitor illicit aerial and maritime shipments to the United States. (Source: U.S. Southern Command)

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