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Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo's Mobile Surgical Team perform a surgical procedure during a Medical Readiness Exercise, Sept. 19, 2013. The Mobile Surgical Team partnered with the Honduran Ministry of Health and the Honduran Surgical Association to perform 40 surgeries at the Puerto Lempira Hospital in the in the Gracias a Dios region of Honduras. (Photo by U.S. Army SGT Michelle Krieg)

Sept. 23, 2013

Joint Task Force-Bravo partners with Honduran health care officials to provide surgical treatment

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Joint Task Force- Bravo's Mobile Surgical Team (MST) partnered with the Honduran Ministry of Health and the Honduran Surgical Association (HSA) to complete 40 surgeries at the Puerto Lempira Hospital in the Gracias a Dios region of Honduras during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE), September 18-20. The MST completed 14 surgeries to

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo makes its return flight from Puerto Lempira, Honduras, to Soto Cano Air Base while carrying a sling-loaded environmental control unit weighing more than 4,800 pounds, Sept. 21, 2013. The environmental control unit was used to support JTF-Bravo's mobile surgical team while they provided medical assistance in the Gracias a Dios region of Honduras. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Zach Anderson)

Sept. 22, 2013

Heavy lifting

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo work with members of the Honduran military to offload medical supplies from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Puerto Lempira, Honduras, Sept. 21, 2013. Joint Task Force-Bravo partnered with the Honduras Ministry of Health to coordinate the movement of more than 140 boxes of medical supplies from Soto Cano Air Base to Puerto Lempira. The medical supplies will be used at a local hospital. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Zach Anderson)

Sept. 21, 2013

Joint Task Force-Bravo partners with Honduran Ministry of Health to deliver medical supplies

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element administer medication to children during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE) in Honduras, Sept. 19, 2013. During the exercise, JTF-Bravo members provided medical care to more than 800 individuals in the Gracias a Dios region of Honduras. (Photo by U.S. Army Spc. Patrick Rawlings)

Sept. 20, 2013

Joint Task Force-Bravo brings medical care to more than 800 in Honduras

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo partnered with the Honduran Ministry of Health to provide medical care to more than 800 people in the remote villages of Usibila and Raya in the Gracias a Dios region of Honduras during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE), Sept. 18-19."MEDRETES allow us to maintain our expeditionary capability while

To celebrate the Air Force’s 66th birthday U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. William Wade, Joint Task Force-Bravo deputy commander, and one of 612th Air Base Squadron's junior Airmen, Airman 1st Class Chad Behr, 612th ABS crew chief, cut the Air Force cake here Sept 18, 2013. Initially part of the U.S. Army Air Corps, the now U.S. Air Force, was made into its own military branch on Sept 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. The U.S. Air Force is one of the strongest and most technologically advanced forces on the planet.

Sept. 18, 2013

Joint Task Force-Bravo celebrates the Air Force's 66th birthday

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Tim Byrnes (left), a Joint Task Force-Bravo Army Forces Air Drop supervisor, U.S. Army Specialist Joshua Martinez (center), a JTF-Bravo ARFOR parachute rigger, and U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Domingo Longo (right), a JTF-Bravo ARFOR ammunition inspector inspect a 4,823 pound environmental control unit before it’s sling-loaded onto a 1-228 Aviation Battalion Chinook-47 to assist JTF-Bravo’s Medical Element’s mobile surgical team Sept 16-21 in the Northern region of Honduras. The United States military personnel assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo have been conducting medical readiness training exercises since Oct. 1993. Since that time, they have conducted more than 295 missions and treated more than 341,400 medical patients, 67,400 dental patients and 14,300 surgical patients throughout Central America.

Sept. 16, 2013

Joint Task Force-Bravo transports operating room

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — After months of training, members of Joint Task Force-Bravo sling-loaded a 4,823 pound self containment system to one of 1-228 Aviation Battalion's Chinook-47s, which will be used by JTF-Bravo's Medical Element's mobile surgical team Sept 16-21 in the Northern region of Honduras. "The environmental control unit is a trailer mounted support system,"

Children from the CasAyuda orphanage hit a pinata as part of a visit hosted by Joint Task Force-Bravo's Joint Security Forces, Sept. 12, 2013. The JSF welcomed more than 30 children from the local orphanage to Soto Cano Air Base for a day of games and activities. (Photo by U.S. Army Spc. Ryan Stufflebeem)

Sept. 16, 2013

Joint Task Force-Bravo's Joint Security Forces hosts school, orphanage visit

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Joint Task Force-Bravo's Joint Security Forces welcomed more than 100 children from a local orphanage and school to participate in a day of fun and games here, Sept. 12. Members of JTFB-JSF set up stations consisting of basketball, dodge ball, kickball, and soccer for the children of the CasAyuda orphanage and school.  The children rotated through

U.S. Army Lt. Col. (ret) James Moore (left), Southern Command Senior Systems engineer, and U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kore Schmidt (right), a Joint Operations Center controller, insert data into a cell phone and tablet, which is connected to a Web-based application that allows information sharing of mapped data by geographically dispersed participants for the purpose of improved situational awareness and decision making here, Sept. 12, 2013. Members from U.S. Southern Command and Joint Task Force-Bravo partnered with the Permanent Contingency Commission of Honduras, COPECO (the Federal Emergency Management Agency equivalent), joint efforts here and in Tegucigalpa Sept 12-15, to demonstrate and assess a mapping tool, which will improve the governmental and non-governmental organizations’ capability during complex humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. (Photograph released by Mr. Martin Chahin)

Sept. 12, 2013

U.S. works with COPECO to test Web-based assistance software

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Members from U.S. Southern Command and Joint Task Force-Bravo partnered with the Permanent Contingency Commission of Honduras, COPECO (the Federal Emergency Management Agency equivalent), joint efforts here and in Tegucigalpa Sept 12-15, to demonstrate and assess a mapping tool, which will improve the governmental and non-governmental

U.S. Navy Master at Arms Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Aldrich, the JSF kennel master, walked throughout the post’s motor pull and placed various drug and bomb scented objects inside of vehicles, trailers and various other containers Sept. 5, 2013. Joint Security Forces’ military working dog handlers performed bomb and drug detection training here in order to keep the MWDs proficient.

Sept. 7, 2013

JTF-Bravo’s military working dogs train for success

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Joint Security Forces' military working dog handlers performed bomb and drug detection training here in order to keep the MWDs proficient Sept 5. U.S. Navy Master at Arms Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Aldrich, the JSF kennel master, walked throughout the post's motor pull and placed various drug and bomb scented objects inside of vehicles, trailers

Senior Airman Christopher Crusius, a 612th Air Base Squadron firefighter, is engulfed in flames as he opens the hood during a car fire here as part of Central America Sharing Mutual Operational Knowledge and Experiences (CENTAM Smoke) Exercise Aug 27, 2013. JTF-Bravo firefighters will train alongside Hondurans, Belizeans, Costa Ricans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Panamanians and Nicaraguans partner nation firefighters allowing the U.S. and Central America firefighters four days of team-building exercises.(Photograph released by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jarrod Chavana)

Aug. 28, 2013

All 7 Central American countries train at CENTAM Smoke

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Joint Task Force-Bravo is hosting the Central America Sharing Mutual Operational Knowledge and Experiences (CENTAM Smoke) Exercise here Aug. 26-29 and for the first time all seven nations are present.JTF-Bravo firefighters will train alongside Hondurans, Belizeans, Costa Ricans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Panamanians and Nicaraguans partner