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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

SAN MIGUEL, COSTA RICA--Search and rescue volunteers here load a Joint Task Force-Bravo Blackhawk helicopter Sunday to be transported to areas affected by the earthquake. Four helicopters and 34 servicemembers from JTF-Bravo are deployed here at the request of the Costa Rican government to provide humanitarian assistance. (U.S. Air Force photo/1st Lt. Candace Park)

Jan. 12, 2009

CNE, OFDA, JTF-B partner to save lives of earthquake victims

SAN MIGUEL, Costa Rica — Four helicopters and 34 servicemembers from Joint Task Force-Bravo at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, began flying search and rescue missions Saturday in the vicinity of San Miguel and continued their search for victims Sunday after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck here Thursday. The crews evacuated 90 people, including two wounded victims, in

SAN MIGUEL, COSTA RICA — Members of the Costa Rican Red Cross transport a 65-year-old female earthquake victim here from a Joint Task Force-Bravo helicopter to a waiting ambulance Saturday. Four JTF-Bravo helicopters and 34 servicemembers are deployed here from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, at the request of the Costa Rican government to provide life-saving support to those affected by the earthquake. (U.S. Air Force photo/1st Lt. Candace Park)

Jan. 10, 2009

SOUTHCOM deploys disaster response team to Costa Rica

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A team of 34 U.S. military personnel and four helicopters from Honduras-based Joint Task Force-Bravo deployed to Costa Rica today to assist with disaster response efforts in areas affected by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake near San Jose. The team, comprised of U.S. Army and Air Force aviation crews, rescue, medical and support personnel, is supporting

Army Staff Sgt. Jose Gutierrez and Specialist Robert Hunt carry an injured man from a medivac helicopter Dec. 1. More than 60 JTF-Bravo personnel participated in humanitarian disaster relief missions in Costa Rica and Panama. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joel Mease)

Dec. 2, 2008

JTF-Bravo deploys disaster assistance teams to Panama, Costa Rica