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Joint Task Force Bravo conducted a medical engagement in Olancho, Honduras to provide humanitarian assistance and medical services at the request of the government of Honduras.

Jan. 23, 2023

Joint Task Force – Bravo conducts medical engagement in Olancho, Honduras

Joint Task Force – Bravo received a unique request during U.S. Southern Command’s Health Engagements Assistance Response Team HEART 2022 mission to work alongside partner nation medical professionals to provide surgical and medical services to communities in Guatemala and Honduras.

Master Sgt. Hugo Silva, 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers unit medical advisor, performs an ultrasound on a pregnant patient as Capt. Ryan Mintalar, 60th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron physician assistant, explains the images on the monitor to local medical professionals in Orocuina Honduras, June 29, 2022 as part of a knowledge exchange with healthcare providers during exercise Resolute Sentinel 22. (Photo courtesy of RS22 Medical Support Team)

July 20, 2022

Resolute Sentinel medical personnel support ultrasound capabilities in rural Honduras

CHOLUTECA, Honduras — Members of the 774th Expeditionary Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, under the command of the 474th Air Expeditionary Group, conducted an evidence-based knowledge exchange with local healthcare providers on the installation and use of a diagnostic ultrasound system in Orocuina, Honduras, June 29 as part of exercise Resolute Sentinel 22 (RS22).

June 22, 2022

Resolute Sentinel 22: Sharing Knowledge and Building Partnerships

U.S. military medics arrived in San Salvador, El Salvador June 5, 2022, to integrate with the El Salvadoran military and medical staff at Hospital Militar Central for Operation Resolute Sentinel 22. Resolute Sentinel 22 provides joint training and improved readiness for U.S. civil engineers, medical professionals and support personnel through humanitarian assistance activities in El Salvador.

Members of Joint Task Force Bravo unload a CH-47 Chinook at the Guatemalan 5th Infantry Brigade near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, Dec. 11, 2021.

Jan. 6, 2022

JTF-Bravo medics perform Guatemala global health engagement

Members of Joint Task Force Bravo deployed to Guatemala to conduct a global health engagement, providing medical and veterinary care to populations throughout the country.

Hospital Corpsman aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) prepare beds in the medical ward, Aug. 20, 2021.

Aug. 21, 2021

Fleet Surgical Team 2 Joins USS Arlington for Haiti Mission

ATLANTIC OCEAN — Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 2 joined the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) as the ship departed Norfolk to support the United States Agency for International Development/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA) led humanitarian assistance and disaster relief effort in Haiti to save lives and ease suffering following a 7.2-magnitute earthquake on Aug. 14, 2021.

Oct. 28, 2020

Medical professionals from BAMC, Argentine Army discuss COVID best practices

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Brooke Army Medical Center and Argentine Army’s Central Military Medical Hospital medical professionals did not let 5,600 miles of separation keep them from discussing best practices against COVID-19 on Oct. 21.

U.S. Army Spc. Marina Houff, Joint Task Force – Bravo Medical Element preventive medicine technician, takes water sample from a reservoir tank during a Leishmaniasis investigation, July 10, 2019, at La Libertad, Honduras. Members of JTF-B were asked by the Honduran Ministry of Health to conduct an investigation into the cause of Leishmaniasis and provide any recommendations that may stop infection. Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that is caused by infection with leishmania parasites, which are spread through the bite of sand flies.

July 15, 2019

U.S., Honduran health services battle disease in Honduran mountain community

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — Joint Task Force Bravo in concurrence with the Honduran Ministry of Health conducted a medical investigation into a possible disease outbreak, July 9 and 10, at La Libertad in the district of Comayagua, Honduras.

U.S. Navy Lt. David Cruz, Southern Partnership Station 2018’s Fleet Health Engagement Team (FHET) officer-in-charge, speaks with a Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) military professional as part of functional exercise Red Fish aboard a TTO coast guard vessel during Southern Partnership Station 2018.

Feb. 20, 2019

Global Health Engagement in action: Trinidad and Tobago

Each year, U.S. Navy personnel deploy to Partner Nations (PNs) in the Caribbean including Central and South America as part of Southern Partnership Station (SPS) to strengthen partnerships and improve interoperability. As part of SPS 2018, I was responsible for an eleven person Global Fleet Health Engagement Team (GHET) in Trinidad and Tobago (TTO).

U.S. Army Maj. Margaret Novicio, Medical Element dentist, treats a patient during a medical readiness exercise in El Palmital, Honduras, Jan. 31, 2019.

Feb. 5, 2019

MEDEL provides care to El Palmital

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — On Jan. 31, doctors, nurses, dentists and other health care specialists assigned to Joint Task Force Bravo’s Medical Element aided the Ministry of Health at a local clinic in El Palmital by providing dental, pharmaceutical, lab, preventative medicine, public health and general health services during a medical readiness exercise.

U.S. Soldiers go over ground rules for operating at a hospital in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Nov. 26, 2018.

Nov. 30, 2018

U.S. Soldiers Assist Honduran Hospital

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, HONDURAS — Soldiers assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element and Regional Health Command began assisting a San Pedro Sula hospital in late November.