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Joint Task Force-Bravo firefighters Staff Sgt. Peter Franko (left) and Senior Airman Daniel Meginness work to suppress a fire in Comayagua, Honduras, Wednesday evening. Seven JTF-B firefighters responded to assist the Comayagua Fire Department with the blaze that erupted near the central plaza around 8 p.m. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

April 16, 2009

Soto Cano members help Honduran authorities battle devastating blaze

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — Emergency crews from Joint Task Force-Bravo at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, worked alongside local responders to battle a blaze that consumed a historic building in Comayagua April 15. Seven firefighters and two security forces patrolmen left Soto Cano just 20 minutes after base officials were notified of the request for support from local

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Army Specialist Juan Perez-Fernanzez, 1-228th Aviation Regiment, shows Ever Aviles the hoist on a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter during a Honduran air show in Tegucigalpa, April 14. Specialist Perez-Fernandez is a Blackhawk flight engineer assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo here. The unit supported the airshow with a helicopter as a static display and a medical team. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

April 15, 2009

JTF-Bravo supports Honduran air show

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Maj. Toihunta Stubbs, Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element flight surgeon, stops for a picture with Sgt. José Marroquin of the Honduran Air Force, during graduation from JTF-B's combat lifesafer course Friday. Thirty Honduran Air Force cadets and airmen graduated the course taught by instructors from MEDEL. During the weeklong course, students learned self-aid and buddy care, how to administer intravenous fluids, and medical evacuation. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

April 7, 2009

Honduran airmen, cadets graduate combat lifesaver course

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Nearly 150 men and women from Joint Task Force-Bravo celebrated Women's History Month today by taking part in a "Save our Planet" walk around the base. Guest speaker Maj. Nancy Gormley, Army Forces executive officer, gave opening remarks then lead the group on a walk around the base to learn about the local trees and pick up trash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

March 30, 2009

JTF-B walks to 'Save our Planet'

President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, and his wife, Xiomara, pause for a photo with Air Force Dr. (Col.) Christopher Lauritzen after recognizing Joint Task Force-Bravo for providing medical expertise, equipment, medication and supplies during a regional health fair in Santa Ana, Honduras, March 24. Colonel Lauritzen was one of nine medical personnel who traveled more than 2 hours each way to help, at the request of the Honduran Ministry of Health. (Courtesy photo)

March 25, 2009

Honduran president recognizes JTF-Bravo's contributions

SANTA ANA, Honduras — Nine members of Joint Task Force-Bravo's medical element partnered with the Honduran Ministry of Health and several non-government organizations to treat hundreds of patients today at a health fair here March 24. Thousands attended the health fair -- some seeking medical treatment and others to see President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, and Honduras'

U.S. Army Specialist James Ferguson signals to a HH-60 Blackhawk helicopter as it prepares to land and extract aircrew members during an exercise near La Paz, Honduras, March 20. Eighteen members of the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment, assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo here, took part in the day-long training exercise. The training sharpened land navigation, communication equipment, and aircraft vectoring skills. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Mike Hammond)

March 20, 2009

JTF-Bravo aircrews sharpen skills in training exercise

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — An aircraft mishap can be a confusing, disorienting situation for surviving aircrew members. Linking up with rescuers, navigating to a suitable rescue area, helping the wounded and evading capture are all primary duties in case of an accident. For 18 aircrew members assigned here, the morning of March 20 brought an opportunity to practice these

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Joint Task Force-Bravo firefighter Master Sgt. Pat Miller consults with Comayagua Deputy Fire Chief Lt. Jorge Turcias on a plan to safely recover an overturned fuel truck on C.A. 5 Friday. The truck overturned approximately 8 kilometers north of the base after hitting a horse around 8 a.m. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

March 14, 2009

JTF-B responds to overturned fuel tanker

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Firefighters, medics and security forces from Joint Task Force-Bravo provided mutual aid assistance to the Comayagua Fire Department Friday when a fuel tanker overturned on C.A. 5 approximately eight kilometers north of the base. The tanker, carrying 11,000 gallons of butane gas, hit a horse on the road and overturned on its side. A puncture in the

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras -- Senior Airman Bryan Trinidad, 612th Air Base Squadron, shaves Capt. William Notbohm's head to raise money for children's cancer research through the St. Baldrick's Foundation. Capt. Nothohm is the base civil engineer. The Soto Cano Fire Department raised more than $2,500 by holding a head-shaving event here March 6. Spnsored by family and friends, volunteers went bald in solidarity with kids who typically lose their hair during cancer treatment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

March 11, 2009

Soto Cano FD goes bald for children's cancer research

Rosanna Kingston, founder of the Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation, spends time getting to know the children who have received the fruits of her labor. Mrs. Kingston coordinates volunteers in the U.S. to raise money and supply backpacks and other school supplies to children who cannot afford them. (U.S. Army photo/Specialist Christopher Wellner)

March 6, 2009

JTF-B teams with Give a Kid a Backpack to deliver school supplies

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Bad weather was not an obstacle for the men and women of Joint Task Force-Bravo or six volunteers from the Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation when they delivered nearly 700 backpacks filled with school supplies to children in the mountains of Intibuca and Comayagua, Honduras Feb. 24 and 25. "You should have heard the screams - they were so excited,"

Sgt. Odessa Torrez assists Col. Michael Jung as he performs a dental filling on a Honduran girl durning a dental readiness training excercise at the Lions Club in Comayagua, Honduras, Feb. 24. The DENTRETE is a part of Beyond the Horizons, a humanitarian assistance exercise taking place throughout Central America. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Christopher Wellner)

March 5, 2009

Army dentists kick off Beyond the Horizon exercise

March 5, 2009 — Army Sgt. Carlos Laureano spoke softly to 14-year-old Nancy Saravia and gently enveloped her small hand in his as she sat quietly in a dental chair getting a filling. The dentist, U.S. Army Reserve Capt. Laurence Davis, was one of eight dentists from the 808th Medical Dental Company, Fort Sheridan, Ill., here to conduct a dental readiness training

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