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U.S. Air Force Maj. Kennie Neal, Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-B) command chaplain, bumps fists with a local boy in a neighborhood of La Paz, Honduras, during a volunteer event, Oct. 17, 2021.

Oct. 20, 2021

JTF-B volunteers construct house for local family

Thirty-four service members assigned to Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-B), Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, embarked on a weekend volunteer mission to build a stable home for a local family.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alex Duran, J3 Joint Operations Director, helps one of the local children on the trip down the mountain during Chapel Hike 78 in La Paz, Honduras, March 30, 2019.

April 4, 2019

JTF-Bravo hearts hike for Honduras

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, HONDURAS — Approximately 128 members of Soto Cano Air Base hiked into the mountains of La Paz, Honduras, during Chapel Hike 78, March 30.

Thirteen Honduran PUMCIR (Personal Utilizado en Misiones Contra Incendio y Rescate – Personnel Used in Fire and Rescue) volunteers and six U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo who included firefighters and Personnel Recovery Coordination Cell members, led by Herberth Gaekel (left), 612th Air Base Squadron Fire Department liaison at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, and PUMCIR founder and instructor, pose for a photo midway through a three-mile hike up to a cave located in Comayagua National Park near El Volcan, Honduras, Sept. 24, 2016, to conduct search and rescue training. Gaekel seeks to involve U.S. service members in order to provide them an opportunity to share with and learn from their Honduran counterparts as well as to encourage positive relationship building between the two nations. Gaekel said the training he provides significantly augments what training the volunteers, who are also often full or part-time Bomberos, already receive, and in many cases would not receive if not for his program. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. David Liapis)

Sept. 29, 2016

Honduran, U.S. volunteers conduct underground search and rescue training

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Nearly a dozen Honduran PUMCIR (Personal Utilizado en Misiones Contra Incendio y Rescate – Personnel Used in Fire and Rescue) volunteers and seven U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, conducted a search and rescue exercise in Comayagua National Park near El Volcan, Honduras.