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Patients wait outside a school in Estancia, La Paz, to receive basic medical care from a team of Honduran and U.S. personnel during a two-day Medical Readiness Training Exercise, Jan. 31. Personnel from the Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element worked side by side with local nurses and physicians, as well as Honduran soldiers to provide the population with immunizations, preventive medicine, dental services, basic medical care and pharmacy services. (U.S. Army photo by Maria Pinel)

Feb. 10, 2017

Honduran, U.S. partnership provides medical care for village

LA PAZ, Honduras — Personnel from Honduran Ministry of Health representatives, Honduran military personnel, members of Joint Task Force – Bravo and the U.S. Agency for International Development, partnered to provide basic medical services to the population of Estancia during a medical readiness exercise from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1.

Members of Joint Task Force – Bravo prepare food bags for the Chapel Hike Feb. 4. Approximately 164 hikers in this event that brought food and supplies an under developed community just outside Soto Cano Air Base in the Comayaqua Valley.

Feb. 9, 2017

JTF-Bravo hikes for a good cause

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — Approximately 180 personnel from Joint Task Force-Bravo participated in a four-mile round-trip hike to the village of El Paraiso on Saturday, Feb. 4, to deliver food and supplies to the struggling Honduran community. These hikes are a part of the Command Master Religious Program that executes events to provide relief to areas in the underdeveloped Comayagua Valley that surrounds Soto Cano Air Base.

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – The Coast Guard Cutter Diligence patrols the waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Jan. 9, 2017. Diligence is on an Eastern Pacific patrol conducting alien migrant interdiction operations, domestic fisheries protection, search and rescue, counter-narcotics and other Coast Guard missions at great distances from shore keeping threats far from the U.S. mainland. (FOR RELEASE U.S. Coast Guard photo Chief Warrant Officer Allyson E.T. Conroy)

Feb. 9, 2017

USCGC Diligence returns home after interdicting $60M worth of cocaine

WILMINGTON, N.C. — The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Diligence returned to Wilmington Tuesday following a 62-day patrol in the Eastern Pacific. The Diligence crew patrolled in support of the Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) South in the Eastern Pacific. Along with JIATF South, the U.S. Coast Guard works alongside interagency and international partners to prevent and respond to illegal maritime migration and narcotics smuggling from South and Central America.

TUMACO, Colombia (April 20, 2016) -- Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command, is briefed on the equipment used by an elite Colombian Army unit in their efforts to disrupt narco-traffickers in the country. Tidd was in Colombia April 21 - 22 to meet with military leadership there and get a firsthand look at Colombia military troops on the front lines of efforts to disrupt the activities of narco-traffickers and illegally armed groups. (Photo courtesy of the Colombian Armed Forces)

Feb. 9, 2017

Southcom Chief Stresses Innovation, Cooperation in Countering Threats

WASHINGTON — Fighting transregional and transnational threats requires building networks stronger than those that are keeping those threats in business, the commander of U.S. Southern Command told members of the American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America and the Caribbean.

PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala (Feb. 3, 2017) -- Army Capt. Erin Stein (right), of Macomb, Ill., assigned to Public Health Activity-Fort Gordon Redstone Section Veterinary Service, Ga., and Army Sgt. Patric Berry of Columbus, Ga., assigned to Public Health Activities-Fort Gordon, Ga., administers pyrantel, a broad spectrum dewormer, to pets belonging to host nationals at the Continuing Promise (CP-17) veterinarian site in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. CP-17 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 assistance, training engagements, medical, dental, and veterinary support in an effort to show U.S. support and commitment to Central and South America. (U.S. Navy Combat Camera photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ridge Leoni)

Feb. 8, 2017

Continuing Promise Vet Team Holds Training with Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture

PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala — Army veterinarians and technicians partnered with Guatemalan veterinarians to conduct a professional knowledge exchange and preventive medicine training, Feb. 2, in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, as part of Continuing Promise 2017 (CP-17).

Jan. 30, 2017

Continuing Promise 2017 Arrives in Guatemala, Makes Mission's First Stop

PUERTO BARRIOS — Continuing Promise 2017 (CP-17) arrived in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, Jan. 30, for its first stop on its three-month humanitarian mission.

Flight paramedics from the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment assist Joint Security Forces personnel with patient packaging as part of the hot and cold load orientation during a Medical Evacuation training, at Soto Cano Air Base, Jan. 17, 2017.

Jan. 26, 2017

U.S. troops in Honduras practice medical evacuations

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — The 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment conducted a joint Medical Evacuation training with Joint Security Forces at Soto Cano Air Base, Jan. 17 - 18, to increase readiness and knowledge in preparation for medical emergencies.

Jan. 25, 2017

Army South hosts State Partnership Program Conference

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Military leaders from 20 states descended upon Fort Sam Houston Jan. 18 in support of the DoD joint security cooperation program, managed by the National Guard Bureau that matches the states/territories of National Guards within the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility of Central and South America and the Caribbean.

Chief Master Sgt. Scott Sojak, Air Combat Command Air Traffic Control functional manager, reviews an example of a flight schedule at the Soto Cano Airfield Control Tower, Jan. 18. Sojak was part of a Staff Assistance Visit team who conducted an airfield compliance assessment at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, Jan. 17-20.

Jan. 24, 2017

ACC Staff Assistance Visit helps uphold airfield standards

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Three Staff Assistance Visit team members from Headquarters, Air Combat Command visited the 612th Air Base Squadron to conduct an airfield compliance assessment here, Jan. 17-20.

FILE PHOTO: USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) during UNITAS 2016 exercise last year in Panama. Spearhead, with embarked supporting detachments, is deploying to Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia for the Continuing Promise 2017 humanitarian mission. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jacob Sippel)

Jan. 23, 2017

USNS Spearhead Set to Deploy, Continuing Promise 2017 Begins

Continuing Promise 2017 (CP-17) will begin early next week with the deployment of the Military Sealift Command-operated expeditionary fast transport vessel, USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1), to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility.