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Nov. 18, 2009

Supply distribution mission transitions to medical relief

ILOPANGO, El Salvador — The Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element begins its Medical Civil Action Program, or MEDCAP, Thursday, Nov. 19 in Guadalupe, El Salvador.MEDEL personnel are conducting a MEDCAP disaster relief in support of Ministry of Health and Ministry of Defense for the benefit of Salvadorans affected by the flooding and mudslides that occurred here on Nov.

ILOPANGO, El Salvador – Thousands of pounds of water bottles sit and wait for distribution Nov. 16. The four Joint Task Force-Bravo helicopters transported 97,000 pounds of relief supplies today reaching 315,200 total pounds delivered since Nov. 11 (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Nov. 16, 2009

JTF-Bravo breaks 300,000 pounds distributed in El Salvador aid

ILOPANGO, El Salvador – A CH-47 Chinook assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo sits and waits for the sun to rise over the horizon Nov. 14. JTF-Bravo has been providing vital relief supplies in order to help stabilize the region after a devastating flood Nov. 8. In three days the team of four helicopters and crew has distributed more than 172,700 pounds of supplies in a total of 42 flight hours (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Nov. 14, 2009

Team of four JTF-Bravo helos surpass 170,000 pounds

ILOPANGO, El Salvador – Air Force Tech. Sgt. Bill Bayer, a weather meteorologist assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo, performs early morning weather checks measuring winds, temperature, dew point and pressure with a handheld Kestrel Nov. 14. Sergeant Bayer has been a vital piece to providing daily weather reports for the 1st Battalion, 228th Regiment during a deployment to El Salvador in order to help them stabilize the region from a recent mudslide. Since Nov. 11 JTF-Bravo has distributed more than 172,700 pounds of supplies (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Nov. 14, 2009

Air Force weatherman provides vital info for JTF-Bravo pilots

SAN DIEGO, El Salvador -- Curious Salvadoran children follow a medical assesment team around Nov. 13. Guillermo Saenz, Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element liaison officer, lead the medical assessment team to several villages affected by the Nov. 8 mudslides in order to determine whether it would be affective to perform a medical readiness and training exercise, or MEDRETE. JTF-Bravo has been in El Salvador since Nov. 11 providing airlift operations and tranporting more than 82,000 pounds of supplies (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Nov. 14, 2009

JTF-Bravo distributes 61,000 pounds of supplies, starts medical and engineering assessments

ILOPANGO, El Salvador — Joint Task Force-Bravo members, based at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, have taken on a new mission, and on Nov. 13 they proved just how motivated they were by distributing an astonishing 61,000 pounds of food, water and clothing to remote villages of El Salvador.The two-day combined total of supplies transported by the helicopters is more than

ILOPANGO, El Salvador -- A Salvadoran air force member directs a Joint Task Force-Bravo UH-60 Blackhawk, based out of Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, to land in order for volunteers to upload food onto it Nov. 12 here. The JTF-Bravo members helped distribute more than 21,000 pounds of food, water, clothing and other hygiene products to villages of El Salvador that have been cut off by mudslides. The towns most affected by the Nov. 8 flooding were Verapaz, Guadalupe, Santa Maria Ostumas and San Vicente. These villages were completely cut off by damaged roads and bridges (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Nov. 12, 2009

JTF-Bravo helps distribute 21,000 pounds of supplies to villages of El Salvador

ILOPANGO, El Salvador — An inspiring early morning sun rises over a distant volcano as U.S. servicemembers wake, ready to help neighbors in need. Electricity fills the air, and the sound of helicopter rotors starting up can be heard throughout flood-ravaged El Salvador.Joint Task Force-Bravo members, based at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, helped distribute more than

Nov. 11, 2009

Joint Task Force-Bravo deploys to support damage assessment team in El Salvador

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Joint Task Force-Bravo personnel deployed at approximately noon today to El Salvador in response to recent torrential rains that have caused flooding and landslides there.Thirty-seven Joint Task Force-Bravo personnel, four helicopters (one HH-60, one CH-47 and 2 UH-60s) and a command and control package departed for El Salvador, where they will

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras – More than 100 bags filled with vegetable oil, ketchup, pasta, a couple cans of sardines and bags of sugar, rice, flour and beans lay waiting for volunteers Oct. 31 in the chapel's activity room, the Crossroads. Eighty-one volunteers from Joint Task Force-Bravo hiked more than five miles up and down a rocky, mountain road Oct. 31 just outside of Comayagua, Honduras to deliver food to a remote village. The volunteers carried a total of 122 bags of food, equaling 2,684 pounds. Each bag of food was intended to go to one of the families of this poor mountain village. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Nov. 4, 2009

JTF-Bravo hand delivers 2,684 pounds of food to mountain village

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Eighty-one volunteers from Joint Task Force-Bravo hiked more than five miles up and down a rocky mountain road Oct. 31 just outside of Comayagua, Honduras, to deliver food to a remote village. The goal was simple: deliver food and clothes to the people of the remote village of El Ciruelo, said Air Force Chaplain (Capt.) Mark Grizzard, Joint Task

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — A view of tent city Oct. 27 behind the base rappelling station. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment recently turned their focus from helicopter operations to some basic Soldier field training from Oct. 25 to 29. Some of the things taught during the training were: practicing recall procedures, setting up tents, radio communications, convoy operations, combat medicine, vehicle staging, wrecker operations, M-249 light machine gun familiarization and firing the M-249 at the range (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 30, 2009

Aviation regiment focuses on field training exercise

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment recently turned their focus from helicopter operations to some basic Soldier field training from Oct. 25 to 29 in a tent city behind the base rappelling station. Some of the things taught during the training were: practicing recall procedures, setting up tents, radio communications, convoy

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Air traffic controllers and fire fighters from the 612th Air Base Squadron team up Oct. 29 to practice a bi-anual evacuation procedures at the base air traffic control tower using the Baker Life Chute. The Baker Life Chute was designed to give the controllers an expedient and safe means of getting down from the top of the tower (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).

Oct. 30, 2009

Air traffic controllers, firefighters team up for training

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