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Team Soto Cano hosted more than 30 distinguished members of the surrounding communities during Leaders’ Day for a tour of Soto Cano Air Base March 23. Leaders’ Day was established in 2011 to educate local and national civic leaders on the mission and capabilities of JTF Bravo and Honduran AMA. As the senior representative for U.S. Southern Command, JTF Bravo’s overall mission is to enhance regional security, stability and cooperation. (Photo by Martin Chahin)

March 27, 2012

Leaders' day strengthens partnership

Soto Cano AB, Honduras — Team Soto Cano hosted more than 30 distinguished members of the surrounding communities during

SAN JUAN, Honduras - Air Force Staff Sgt. Melissa Sparks, a Medical Element member who works in preventive medicine at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, gives a child de-wormer after their preventive medicine briefing on the last day of the medical readiness and training exercise March 10. Each person received a preventive medicine briefing then proceeded to the screening area. Members from Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, saw more than 1,000 villagers during the four-day medical readiness and training exercise in the Montana de la Flor region March 7-10. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Candice Allen)

March 11, 2012

JTF-Bravo medics see 1,000 patients

SAN JUAN, Honduras — Members from Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, saw more than 1,000 villagers

SAN JUAN, Honduras - U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Gruber, a Medical Element logistics NCOIC, gives a child de-wormer after the preventive medicine briefing at a medical readiness and training exercise here March 9. Members of the MEDRETE team saw more than 370 San Juan villagers on day three of the four-day MEDRETE here. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Candice Allen)

March 9, 2012

JTF-B medics provide care to 370 in San Juan

SAN JUAN, Honduras — The team from Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, saw more than 370 people on

LA CEIBA, Honduras - Army Spc. Braulio Betanccourt listens to a woman in Spanish and writes down her answers in English during a medical training and readiness exercises here March 8. The Joint Task Force-Bravo medical team, along with Mission Honduras LeMars, the Honduran military, South Dakota State University nutritional team and Honduran Ministry of Health, saw more than 280 patients on day two of the four-day MEDRETE. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Candice Allen)

March 8, 2012

JSF, ARFOR interpret during MEDRETE

LA CEIBA, Honduras — Members from the Joint Security Forces and Army Forces Battalion, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras,

SOTO CANO AB, Honduras - Firefighters from the Joint Task Force-Bravo and Comayagua fire departments work side by side to contain a brushfire which started on Soto Cano AB March 4 here. While both fire departments worked to contain the fire on the ground, from above the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment dropped water using a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook and a UH-60 Blackhawk. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks)

March 8, 2012

Combined efforts extinguishes brushfire at JTF-Bravo

LA CEIBA, Honduras – Army Sgt. John Simon, Army Forces S6 NCOIC, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, moves the SWE-DISH, a tactical satellite communication system, during a medical readiness and training exercise here March 7. Simon provided internet and radio capability ensuring members of the MEDRETE team could communicate within the team as well as relay information to Joint Task Force-Bravo. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Candice Allen)

March 8, 2012

Soldier, Airman provide communication during MEDRETE

LA CEIBA, Honduras — Two servicemembers, who are assigned to Army Forces Battalion, Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air

LA CEIBA, Honduras - Capt. Eric Baroni, a Medical Element physician’s assistant, checks a patient’s beating heart during a medical readiness and training exercise here March 7. The team saw more than 300 people on the first day of the four-day MEDRETE. The medical professionals treated illnesses including respiratory infections, skin infections, pneumonia, tuberculosis, diabetes and high blood pressure. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Candice Allen)

March 7, 2012

JTF-B kicks off MEDRETE in La Ceiba

LA CEIBA, Honduras — Members from Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element kicked off a four-day medical readiness and

March 6, 2012

Medical units team up again for Francisco Morazan MEDRETE

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Nearly 27-person team from Joint Task Force-Bravo will partner with the Honduran Ministry of Health,

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras -- Colonel Ross Brown, Joint Task Force-Bravo commander, Lt. Col. Jorge Muñoz-Rivera, Director of the Honduran Air Force Academy and Command Sgt. Maj. Andrew Barteky, JTF-Bravo CSM, greet Vice President Joe Biden after he arrived here Mar. 6 to hold a bilateral meeting with President Lobo in Tegucigalpa. In addition, he will take part in a meeting with Central American leaders, who have been invited to a joint meeting by President Lobo, the current President Pro Tempore of the Central American Integration System. (Photo/Martin Chahin)

March 6, 2012

Vice President visits Honduras

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Dr. Ricardo Aviles, a Medical Officer at the Medical Element, and Capt. Tyler Grunewald, the deputy director of MEDEL operations setion, speak with a community member about the COPECO exercise here last month. Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, sent members of the Central America Survey Assessment Team to serve as evaluators during a two-day Foreign Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief preparedness exercise in the San Pedro Sula valley last month. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Candice Allen)

March 1, 2012

U.S. military, COPECO evaluate first responders

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, sent members of the Central America Survey

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