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SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Mr. Herberth Gaekel, Joint Task Force-Bravo Fire Department chief of fire prevention, shows Honduran airmen how to employ a fire hose for fire supression. Members of JTF-B conducted a subject matter expert exchange with Honduran airmen here Feb. 16-19 covering several aspects of fire fighting. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

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

Command Sgt. Maj. Eloy Alcivar prepares to call the assembled formation to attention following his acceptance of responsibility as Joint Task Force-Bravo's top enlisted member at a Change of Responsibility ceremony Feb. 11 at the Soto Cano Air Base fire department. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Matthew Huddle)

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

(U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Mike Hammond)

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

Choluteca, Honduras - Dr. (Maj.) Frank Valentín, a pediatric ophthalmologist from Brooks Army Medical Center, Texas, checks 7-month-old Dilcia Milagro Espinal's eyes before performing surgery to correct her crossed eyes Jan. 28. Dr. Valentín was in Honduras as part of a 14-person surgical ophthalmology team performing a Medical Readiness and Training Exercise here Jan. 8-30. (US Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

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 -

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Staff Sgt. Lancaster Ladore (right), Joint Task Force-Bravo, hands a mattress to a man in El Mangos, Honduras, Jan. 30. Volunteers from JTF-B delivered more than 200 mattresses to people in three villages this week as part of a U.S. Southern Command initiative to replace items destroyed in recent floods. (US Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

Jan. 30, 2009

JTF-Bravo delivers comfort

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - More than 80 men and women from Joint Task Force-Bravo here hike into the hills outside Comayagua, Honduras, Jan. 24 to bring food and toys to the people who live there. (US Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

Jan. 29, 2009

JTF-B visits neighbors in El Sitio

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Tech. Sgt. Chandra Smith from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. rocks Joint Task Force-Bravo Jan. 22 as part of the Tops in Blue Team. The Air Force's premier traveling entertainment group performed a variety of music from country classics by Toby Keith and John Michael Montgomery to R and B balads by Boys to Men and Tina Turner. (US Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

Jan. 26, 2009

Tops in Blue rocks Soto Cano

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Dr. Guillermo Saenz, Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element liaison officer, unpacks a vital signs monitor with Dr. Jose Fernando El Cantara at Santa Teresa Hospital in Comayagua, Honduras Jan. 21. The JTF-B doctor worked with the U.S. Military Group in Tegucigalpa to arrange the donation of $10,000 worth of equipment to the pediatric unit at Santa Teresa. (US Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

Jan. 22, 2009

Equipment donation enhances services at local hospital

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - U.S. Army Forces 1st Sgt. Lloyd Broom conducts a jump master performance inspection for Honduran Army Sgt. Alex Armando Paris during combined airborne operations training here Jan. 15. The two services train together to learn from each other and to build cohesion between the units. (US Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

Jan. 21, 2009

Army forces conduct combined jump training at Soto Cano

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - — "Follow me!" yelled a 6-foot-tall U.S. Army Airborne Soldier, motioning with his arm to the Soldiers behind him. Eyes bright with excitement, the jump master turned and stepped out the back of a CH-47D Chinook helicopter as smoothly as if he were stepping off his own front porch. One by one, four more Soldiers followed Sgt. 1st Class Raul Lopez out

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Operating Room Technician Master Sgt. Keri Winsick (left) holds a retractor as Army Surgeon (Maj.) Ron Hyde and Dr. Blanca Dermith repair a hernia for a 5-year-old Honduran Boy Jan. 13. Dr. Hyde and Master Sgt. Winsick are part of a Joint Task Force-Bravo surgical team conducting weekly Medical Readiness Training Exercises in La Paz, Honduras. (US Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danét)

Jan. 15, 2009

JTF-Bravo surgical team aims to improve quality of life

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — A four-person surgical team from U.S. Southern Command's Joint Task Force-Bravo conducted two medical operations in La Paz, Honduras, Jan. 13, removing a man's gall bladder and repairing a hernia for a 5-year-old boy. The team, including three Air Force medical personnel and one Army surgeon, worked with Dr. Blanca Dermith, Honduras' first female

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