Story by Capt. Patrick Gargan | Joint Task Force Bravo | 07.15.2022
SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - U.S. Army pilots and crew assigned to the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment (1-228), Joint Task Force-Bravo completed deck landing qualifications with the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS 15) off the coast of El Salvador, July 15 and 16, 2022....
Story by Maria Pinel | Joint Task Force Bravo | 03.03.2022
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Thigpen, U.S. Army South commanding general, presided over a groundbreaking ceremony for a new aviation hangar at Soto Cano Air Base, March 3, during his first visit to Honduras....
Story by Maria Pinel | Joint Task Force Bravo | 08.16.2021
At the request of U.S. Southern Command, service members assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, will deploy to Haiti in support of relief efforts and deliver critical supplies to the people of Haiti who were affected by the recent earthquake on Aug. 14, 2021....
Story by Maria Pinel | Joint Task Force Bravo | 08.13.2021
Service members with Joint Task Force-Bravo and the 1-228 Aviation Regiment Winged Warriors conducted operations across Guatemala, Honduras and Panama following the devastation left by Eta and Iota. The Guatemalan Armed Forces awarded the Medal of the White Nun to 31 members of the Winged Warriors and 14 to supporting staff with JTF-Bravo to recognize their support during hurricane relief......
Story by Maria Pinel | Joint Task Force Bravo | 04.13.2021
On one of his days off from duty, traveling from the city of La Esperanza to Gracias, in the department of Lempira, Honduras, Sergeant Brian Sánchez, a firefighter with the Gracias Lempira Fire Department was involved in an auto accident. While stuck underneath the overturned vehicle, he lost consciousness. Local search and rescue officers and passersby spent hours using all available......
Story by Capt. Rachel N Salpietra | Joint Task Force Bravo | 11.12.2020
A medida que continúan los esfuerzos para salvar vidas en Honduras, Panamá y Guatemala, la Fuerza de Tarea Conjunta-Bravo comienza a pasar de las operaciones de rescate a la entrega de ayuda necesaria en las comunidades que han estado aisladas durante días desde que el huracán Eta pasó por Centroamérica....
Story by Maria Pinel | Joint Task Force Bravo | 05.29.2020
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Joint Task Force Bravo conducted a helicopter exercise out of Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, May 28, 2020. The exercise involved participation from the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment and the use of 10 U.S. Army CH-47 Chinooks and UH-60L Blackhawk helicopters....
Courtesy Story | Joint Task Force Bravo | 05.15.2020
Aviation is inherently dangerous. Every time that aircraft leaves the ground, your life is in the hands of the very precise and diligent efforts of maintainers who sustain a machine that must be carefully controlled by a trained aviator and crew....