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SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras – More than 100 bags filled with vegetable oil, ketchup, pasta, a couple cans of sardines and bags of sugar, rice, flour and beans lay waiting for volunteers Oct. 31 in the chapel's activity room, the Crossroads. Eighty-one volunteers from Joint Task Force-Bravo hiked more than five miles up and down a rocky, mountain road Oct. 31 just outside of Comayagua, Honduras to deliver food to a remote village. The volunteers carried a total of 122 bags of food, equaling 2,684 pounds. Each bag of food was intended to go to one of the families of this poor mountain village. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Nov. 4, 2009

JTF-Bravo hand delivers 2,684 pounds of food to mountain village

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Eighty-one volunteers from Joint Task Force-Bravo hiked more than five miles up and down a rocky mountain road Oct. 31 just outside of Comayagua, Honduras, to deliver food to a remote village. The goal was simple: deliver food and clothes to the people of the remote village of El Ciruelo, said Air Force Chaplain (Capt.) Mark Grizzard, Joint Task

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — A view of tent city Oct. 27 behind the base rappelling station. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment recently turned their focus from helicopter operations to some basic Soldier field training from Oct. 25 to 29. Some of the things taught during the training were: practicing recall procedures, setting up tents, radio communications, convoy operations, combat medicine, vehicle staging, wrecker operations, M-249 light machine gun familiarization and firing the M-249 at the range (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 30, 2009

Aviation regiment focuses on field training exercise

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment recently turned their focus from helicopter operations to some basic Soldier field training from Oct. 25 to 29 in a tent city behind the base rappelling station. Some of the things taught during the training were: practicing recall procedures, setting up tents, radio communications, convoy

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Air traffic controllers and fire fighters from the 612th Air Base Squadron team up Oct. 29 to practice a bi-anual evacuation procedures at the base air traffic control tower using the Baker Life Chute. The Baker Life Chute was designed to give the controllers an expedient and safe means of getting down from the top of the tower (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 30, 2009

Air traffic controllers, firefighters team up for training

Air Force Senior Airman Benjamin Lowers trains on retrieving and swimming with a weapon during Water Survival Training at the Soto Cano Air Base swimming pool Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Airman Lowers was one of 14 personnel recovery team members receiving training on a variety of water-based tactics to prepare them to operate safely in rescue and recovery missions. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Mike Hammond)

Oct. 26, 2009

JTF-Bravo personnel recovery team learns water survival skills

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Fourteen members of a joint personnel recovery team here learned potentially life-saving skills during water survival training at the Soto Cano Air Base pool Oct. 22. The team, consisting of U.S. Army, Air Force, and Navy members assigned to Army Forces here, learned to use their uniform pants as a floatation device, retrieve a weapon submerged 10

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Spc. Carlos Morales, 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment, U.S. Army South, treats a mock casualty during the U.S. Army South Soldier of the Quarter competition here. (Photo by Robert R. Ramon, U.S. Army South Public Affairs)

Oct. 23, 2009

U.S. Army South names Soldier, NCO of the Quarter

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — One Soldier and one noncommissioned officer distinguished themselves after a four-day competition to identify the U.S. Army South Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer of the Quarter.Spc. Carlos Morales, U.S. Army Air Ambulance Detachment, 1-228th Aviation Regiment, out of Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, was named Soldier of the Quarter while Staff

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Army Staff Sgt. Alexander Delarosa, JTF-Bravo veterinary technician, places a blue collar on a cat Oct. 15 at the base preventative health operating room after spaying, immunizing and implanting a computer microchip.The Joint Task Force-Bravo veterinarian clinic staff started a new initiative this month to try and not only control the population of cats on base, but also make sure the cats that are here are healthy in order to help control the pests on base. One way for base residents to visually determine which cats that have been treated is by the presence of the light blue collar (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 21, 2009

New initiative at Soto Cano helps immunize, control feline population

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — On a cool, misty October morning a mother cat rummages through the garbage can. She needs to find food so she can nurse her litter of four kittens. Her instinct is to hunt the various birds, insects and rodents common to the area, but feeding the kittens has sapped her strength and energy levels to the point where anything she scavenges will do. A

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Staff Sgt. Kahlil Davis, JTF-Bravo firefighter, gives the Honduran firefighters a safety briefing on how to enter and exit the Soto Cano burn house Oct. 6. The JTF-Bravo firefighters worked with the Honduran firefighters to bring them up to speed on different procedures used here in case the firefighters ever have to work together in the local community. Some of the training included litter training, aircraft training and general firefighter safety and procedures (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 9, 2009

Honduran, JTF-Bravo firefighters team up to train

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Some children wave to two service members as they enter the base Oct. 6 for the fire department’s fire prevention week. About 175 children from different schools in La Paz and Comayagua traveled to base to learn some important lessons about fire prevention. Every year during the week of Oct. 8 fire stations around the country reach out to the community to remind families of the importance of fire prevention (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 9, 2009

Local children participate in fire department’s fire prevention week

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Tech. Sgt Dasveer Parhar, an Air Force weatherman with the 612th Air Base Squadron, measures winds, temperature, dewpoint and pressure with a handheld Kestrel Oct. 5 in front of the base operations building. Sergeant Parhar was recently named the 12th Air Force NCO of the Quarter. He said he has been a weatherman for 11 years, and he likes how important weather is to the mission (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 8, 2009

Weatherman wins 12th Air Force NCO of Quarter

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Col. Christopher Gehler, Joint Task Force-Bravo commander, signs the fire prevention proclamation at the JTF-Bravo headquarters building Oct. 5. Fire prevention week was established to remember the Great Chicago Fire on Oct. 9, 1871. The tragic fire killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres. Every year during the week of Oct. 8 fire stations around the country reach out to the community to remind families of the importance of fire prevention (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 5, 2009

JTF-Bravo kicks off fire prevention week

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Fire prevention week began today with Col. Christopher Gehler, Joint Task Force-Bravo commander, signing the fire prevention proclamation at the JTF-Bravo headquarters building. "Many of the structures we live and work in on base are made of wood so it is vitally important for us to maintain our awareness and practice good fire prevention on a

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