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PIEDRA MESA, Costa Rica – Air Force Staff Sgts. Steven Geist (left) and David Pagani, Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element, take a young Costa Rican girl with cerebral palsy who has been diagnosed with pneumonia to a waiting helicopter to be air evacuated from a makeshift clinic to a hospital in Limon Dec. 18. JTF-Bravo deployed 28 servicemembers from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras to Costa Rica, at the invitation of the country’s Ministry of Health, for the first Medical Readiness Training Exercise in more than three years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)

Dec. 21, 2007

JTF-Bravo deploys medics to Costa Rica for first time in more than three years

PIEDRA MESA, Costa Rica — For the first time in more than three years, United States servicemembers from Joint Task

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras -- Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Wade Johnson, Command Chief for 12th Air Force, delivers cookies to servicemembers from Joint Task Force-Bravo at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, Dec. 11. Chief Johnson came with the ?Cookie Caper? morale mission, which allowed 12th Air Force leaders to visit with deployed servicemembers prior to the holidays. The team delivered more than 9,000 cookies to Honduras, the Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs)

Dec. 18, 2007

12th AF delivers cookies, holiday cheer to forward operating locations

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba — The annual 12th Air Force morale mission dubbed as the "Cookie Caper" concluded here Dec. 14, as

COMAYAGUA, Honduras -- Servicemembers assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo cross a stream en route to the village of Capiro to deliver approximately 600 pounds of food Dec. 14. The three-mile hike, sponsored by the JTF-Bravo chapel, was the fourth in a series of five scheduled trips. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)

Dec. 17, 2007

Volunteers from JTF-Bravo deliver food to Honduran mountain village

CAPIRO, Honduras — United States servicemembers from Joint Task Force-Bravo took to the mountains around Soto Cano Air

COMAYAGUA, Honduras – A young Honduran girl embraces her new pair of shoes, a gift from U.S. Southern Command and Joint Task Force-Bravo. Servicemembers from both commands delivered more than 130 pairs of shoes to Hogar de Niños Tierra Santa orphanage here Dec. 8. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)

Dec. 12, 2007

SOUTHCOM, JTF-Bravo spread holiday cheer at local orphanage

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — COMAYAGUA, Honduras - Servicemembers from Joint Task Force-Bravo and U.S. Southern Command helped

TAMARA DROP ZONE, Honduras - Army Staff Sgt. David Hattan, Joint Task Force-Bravo Army Forces, checks the parachute of Capt. Erwin Lara, a TESON instructor with the Honduran army, prior to an airdrop here Dec. 8. The air drop was the last requirement for the students in the TESON class. TESON, which stands for Tropas Especiales para Operaciones de Selva y Nocturnas, is an elite Honduran unit akin to the U.S. Army Rangers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs)

Dec. 10, 2007

US forces help TESON students complete final hurdle

TAMARA DROP ZONE, Honduras — Sixteen students of the Honduran army's elite unit TESON parachuted from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter

COMAYAGUA, Honduras – Army Major (Dr.) Kurt Davis (right), a surgeon with the Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element, and local surgeon Dr. Jose Mejía perform surgery on a Honduran patient while Tech. Sgt Bruce Graybill, an operating room technician, assists during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise Dec. 5. MEDEL surgeons usually perform surgical MEDRETES twice a week in towns near Soto Cano Air Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)

Dec. 7, 2007

JTF-Bravo MEDEL sets up shop in local hospital

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — Doctors, nurses and medical technicians from Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element performed four

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras – Army Col. Marcus De Oliveira, Joint Task Force-Bravo commander, leads a procession of top military leaders from Honduras and JTF-Bravo Nov. 30 in a Caminata de Coroneles, a “camaraderie walk” in recognition of 39 retiring Honduran colonels. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)

Dec. 4, 2007

American, Honduran military leadership take ‘camaraderie walk’

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - For 25 years United States servicemembers assigned to Joint Task

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras – Air Force Lt. Col. Lawrence Ott, Joint Task Force-Bravo deputy commander, and Charles Ford, United States Ambassador to Honduras, serve food to troops at a Thanksgiving meal at the Soto Cano Dining Facility Nov. 21. (U.S. Air Force photo by Martin Chahin)

Nov. 29, 2007

MWR office provides entertainment for remote troops during holidays

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Even though the temperatures are still hovering around the mid-80s, the winter holiday season has

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras -- Army Maj. (Dr.) Kurt Davis, a general surgeon and Mobile Surgical Team commander, explains field medical procedures to a group of Honduran government officials during Local Leaders Day here Nov. 27. The annual event brought together not only Honduran government leaders, but also representatives from the U.S. Embassy, World Food Program, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs)

Nov. 28, 2007

Local leaders get first-hand look at Soto Cano

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Approximately 30 leaders from throughout Honduras visited here Nov. 27 to gain a better

LA SAMPEDRANA, Honduras - Army Sgt. Eric Gustafson loads donated food into his ruck sack prior to a mountain hike here Nov. 17. Airman, Soldiers and Sailors from Joint Task Force-Bravo at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, hiked five and a half miles up the mountain here to deliver more than 600 pounds of food to local villagers. This hike is the third in a series of five sponsored by the JTF-Bravo Chapel. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs)

Nov. 20, 2007

JTF-Bravo servicemembers bring Thanksgiving to Honduran village

LA SAMPEDRANA, Honduras — Approximately 70 people from Joint Task Force Bravo made a five-and-half-mile hike up Comayagua

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