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

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

March 11, 2009

Soto Cano FD goes bald for children's cancer research

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,"

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

Feb. 20, 2009

Honduran airmen train with JTF-B firefighters

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Eleven airmen from the Honduran Air Force conducted training here Feb. 16 - 19 with the Joint Task Force-Bravo Fire Department in a subject matter expert exchange focused on wildland fires, land navigation and structural fires. Such exchanges are usually conducted with firefighters from Comayagua, said Mr. Herberth Gaekel , JTF-B chief of fire

Feb. 13, 2009

Joint Task Force-Bravo gets new enlisted leader

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — In a time-honored ceremony at 9 a.m. Feb. 11, the enlisted men and women of Joint Task Force-Bravo saw their top representative and mentor leave and a new leader step in. During a formal Change of Responsibility ceremony, held in the base fire department's hangar, Army Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy Mullins handed the responsibilities he held for 24

Feb. 6, 2009

Medical team hikes into Honduran mountains to care for children

MARCALA, Honduras — A small boy looked warily at the doctor through teary eyes. He didn't know what the strangers were doing here at his home. He wondered, like many children do, if he would be hurt. He wanted his mother to hold him. The doctor extended the stethoscope to the boy, who slowly reached out and touched it with his tiny hand -- learning at once that no

Feb. 2, 2009

Medical team repairs vision for 245 Hondurans

CHOLUTECA, Honduras — Seven-month-old Dilcia Milagro Espinal has always had beautiful big, brown eyes. Now, thanks to a team of U.S. Army ophthalmologists here, she also has the ability to see with them, unhindered by misalignment or double vision. Dilcia was one of 245 patients to receive free surgical eye care during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise here Jan. 8 -

Jan. 30, 2009

JTF-Bravo delivers comfort