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Staff Sgt. José Alequin, Joint Task Force-Bravo Joint Security Forces, shows participants how to properly immobilize a person during a Subject Matter Expert Exchange between JSF and local public forces in Comayagua.

April 11, 2017

La Paz, Comayagua Police force receives training

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — To further strengthen the knowledge of the local police forces, 115 members of the National Police force Comayagua and La Paz participated in a Subject matter Exchange with Joint Security Forces personnel from Joint Task Force-Bravo, stationed at Soto Cano Air Base in Palmerola, Comayagua.These exchanges were provided in both La Paz and Comayagua,

Sgt. 1st Class Loraine Branson, Joint Task Force-Bravo’s Medical Element, high fives a local Nicaraguan child during the screening process at Medical Readiness Exercise in the village of Waspam March 30. Personnel from the Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element worked side by side with local nurses and physicians, as well as Nicaraguan soldiers to provide the population with immunizations, preventive medicine, dental services, basic medical care and pharmacy services during the three day exercise.

April 1, 2017

Joint Task Force Bravo conducts medical exercise, builds partnerships in Nicaragua

WASPAM, Nicaragua — Approximately 40 personnel from Joint Task Force – Bravo participated in a Medical Readiness Training Exercise here March 28-31 in support of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health area representatives.

Honduran and U.S. Senior Enlisted Advisors pose for a group photo at Soto Cano Air Base, March 24 after designing a Program of Instruction to professionalize local forces. Their goal is to achieve a higher level of professionalism, using new teaching techniques that will allow them to pass on knowledge for future generations of soldiers across the armed forces.

March 24, 2017

Honduran, US Senior Enlisted Advisors develop program of instruction

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Professional and properly trained forces are vital to any military unit. Without trained professionals a unit cannot perform the duties they are meant to perform.As part of the U.S. Southern Command’s “partner of choice” stand and Joint Task Force-Bravo’s commitment to enhancing partner nation capacity, a program of instruction for a potential

Joint Task Force-Bravo’s 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment spent the last year developing a robust overwater search-and-rescue, or SAR, program that brings a crucial, life-saving capability to JTF-Bravo.

March 22, 2017

Inside JTF-Bravo’s overwater search-and-rescue capability

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Joint Task Force-Bravo’s 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment spent the last year developing a robust overwater search-and-rescue, or SAR, program that brings a crucial, life-saving capability to JTF-Bravo.

Joint Task Force-Bravo joins the team of cooperation to combat the intense fire that has consumed more than 15 acres of land in Intibucá.

March 22, 2017

JTF-Bravo helps fight wild fires

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo partnered with Honduran Public Forces to contain multiple life-threatening wildfires here the first week of March.

Members of the 1-228 AVN’s MEDEVAC Company transport a critically ill U.S. military retiree from a hospital in Siguatepeque to Tegucigalpa for further care Feb 18. The MEDEVAC Company is assigned to Joint Task Force – Bravo at Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras. The company trains daily for critical missions such as these and on this day were able to put all their training and skills into action for a real world mission that helped save a life. (Courtesy photo)

March 7, 2017

JTF-Bravo provides life-saving medical evacuation

SIGUATEPEQUE, Honduras — Joint Task Force - Bravo’s Medical Element and the 1st Battalion, 228 Aviation Regiment provided vital medical support that helped save the life of a U.S. military retiree here Feb. 18.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Alisha Garrette and crew chief Staff Sgt. Sean Sullivan give each other a high-five after Garrette successfully marshaled a C-130 Hercules aircraft while participating in the 612th Air Base Squadron's "Crew Chief for a Day" program at Soto Cano Air Base, March 2. The program aims to get other servicemembers from JTF-Bravo to come out to the airfield and experience a day in the life of a U.S. Air Force crew chief.

March 3, 2017

Soto Cano personnel become Crew Chiefs for a Day

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Four volunteers from various specialties on JTF-Bravo were issued headsets and hearing protection by the 612 ABS’s transient aircraft section on March 2, they became crew chiefs for the day.

A police officer with the San Pedro Sula Metropolitan Police Unit Medical Brigade conducts a medical assessment during a medical civic action program mission in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Feb. 18. Approximately 1,175 patients were seen in this one-day collaboration effort between local police, JTF-Bravo, local providers and private organizations. Working with Honduran police forces on joint exercises solidifies JTF-Bravo as a Partner-of-Choice for collaborative actions.

Feb. 28, 2017

Honduran providers, MEDEL support partnership engagement with Honduran police

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element partnered with Honduran officials to provide medical care near Honduras’s second-largest city, San Pedro Sula, during a medical civic action program mission, Feb. 18.

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter from JTF-Bravo's 1st Battalion, 228 Aviation Regiment unloads a pallet of equipment and supplies during a deployment readiness exercise of the U.S. Southern Command Situational Assessment Team (SSAT) in Zambrano, Honduras, Feb. 21 through 23. The SSAT is a quick-reaction deployable team comprised of experts that provide the commander of USSOUTHCOM an immediate assessment of conditions and unique Department of Defense requirements which might be needed during a Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Response event within the Central American Area of Responsibility.

Feb. 28, 2017

JTF-Bravo’s quick reaction force executes deployment readiness exercise

ZAMBRANO, Honduras — Eleven personnel from Joint Task Force-Bravo’s U.S. Southern Command Situational Assessment Team (SSAT) mobilized in support of a deployment readiness exercise here, Feb. 21 through 23.

Red Cross volunteers sort vitamins and deworming medication into care bags provided by the preventive medicine team during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise in Corinto, Cortes, Feb. 16, 2017. Red Cross volunteers also facilitated communication between patients and U.S. medical personnel. (U.S. Army photo by Maria Pinel)

Feb. 27, 2017

MEDRETE mission supports health efforts in Corinto

CORINTO, Cortes — Thirty-three personnel from Joint Task Force-Bravo’s Medical Element, Joint Security Forces and Army Forces Battalion participated in a two-day Medical Readiness Training Exercise here, Feb. 16 through 17, providing service for 747 patients.