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SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras – With a morning moon over his shoulder, Capt. John Schmalz, Bravo Co. commander, 1-228 Aviation Regiment, performs preflight on the UH-60 Chinook he will fly to support Honduran Airborne training Jan. 24. The helicopter served as the platform for the Honduran Army’s efforts in training its soldiers in airborne tactics at the Honduran airborne troop headquarters at Tamara, Honduras, (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. William Farrow)

Jan. 29, 2008

Hondurans, Americans team for combined jump

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — More than 250 Honduran soldiers took their first step toward Airborne readiness when they leaped

Tech. Sgt Herman Ybarra exchanges ideas with Salvadoran military members while they train for their upcoming deployment to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Ybarra was part of a U.S. task force from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, deployed to El Salvador to provide Salvadoran military members familiarization with U.S. equipment, tactics, techniques and procedures prior to their upcoming Operation Iraqi Freedom rotation. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. John Asselin)

Jan. 23, 2008

Task Force Iguana helps prepare Salvadoran military for Iraq deployment

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — A U.S. task force from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, deployed to El Salvador Jan. 12-19 to provide

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras – Air Force Staff Sgt. Staff Sgt. Eduard Morales encourages Tommy, a three-year old Belgian Malinois, who has just pointed out the location of drugs placed by his trainers during a training exercise at the library here Jan. 15. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M.May)

Jan. 22, 2008

Military Working Dog teams assist with local security missions

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — It's a simple, age-old act of classical conditioning--the dog finds what the master desires and the

PIEDRA MESA, Costa Rica – Air Force Staff Sgt. Charles Alford, Joint Task Force-Bravo communications directorate, talks to operators in the JTF-Bravo Joint Operations Center from a village in the remote mountains of Costa Rica. The communications directorate, or J-6, recently began teaching servicemembers from various career fields how to use the communications equipment used on deployments to augment the small group of people qualified to operate it. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)

Jan. 14, 2008

Joint environment provides new training, new opportunities for servicemembers

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Long deployments to operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations around the globe are

EL VOLCAN, Honduras - Army Warrant Officer Benjamin Martin, a pilot with the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment, hands toys to local children during a hike to El Volcan planned by the Joint Task Force-Bravo chapel Jan. 5. The seven-mile hike was the last of a series of five in which JTF-Bravo servicemembers delivered food to local villagers. Participants in the hike to El Volcan carried toys for local children with them because the hike happened one day before Three Kings Day, a holiday which Hondurans traditionally celebrate by giving gifts to children. (Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Erika Yepsen/Joint Task Force-Bravo Public Affairs)

Jan. 7, 2008

JTF-Bravo completes series of hikes to deliver food to villages

EL VOLCAN, Honduras — Damp weather didn't dampen the spirits of more than 50 servicemembers who hiked seven miles to

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Staff Sgt. Austin M. May, a Public Affairs noncommissioned officer deployed here from Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, works on a character from his comic strip, Air Force Blues. Sergeant May recently published a book of his comics, and Air Force Blues is slated to appear in an upcoming issue of Airman Magazine. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs)

Jan. 2, 2008

Air Force cartoonist continues strip, publishes book while deployed

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — It's hard being only a figment of someone's imagination. Just ask Air Force 1st Lt. Kenneth Dahl, an

LA CEIBA, Honduras - Soldiers and Airmen from Joint Task Force-Bravo at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, offload donated wheelchairs from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter here Dec. 28. The hand-crank wheelchairs were donated to isolated villages along the Miskito Coast of Honduras. The Alabama non-profit organization Missions Unlimited contacted the U.S. Agency for International Development to coordinate the donation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs)

Jan. 2, 2008

Civil Military Operations delivers hand-crank wheelchairs to Miskito Coast

LA CEIBA, Honduras — A Civil Military Operations team from Joint Task Force-Bravo delivered 100 donated wheelchairs to

COMAYAGUA, Honduras -- Air Force Senior Airman Evan McIntosh, a 612th Air Base Squadron firefighter, hands out miniature soccer balls to children here during a toy giveaway Dec. 23. A toy drive was organized by the Joint Task Force-Bravo Chapel and the gifts were donated by the families of servicemembers stationed at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs)

Dec. 24, 2007

JTF-Bravo families donate toys to Honduran children

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

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