Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 06.28.2016
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (June 28, 2016) — Lt. Cmdr. Fredrick Brown said he felt hope for combating crime in his country during the Global Countering Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) Alumni Community of Interest Workshop held June 20 to 24 at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies....
Story by Staff Sgt. Siuta Ika | Joint Task Force Bravo | 06.16.2016
Nestled in the wilderness of Miskito Indian country near the southeastern border and enclosed on all sides by dense rain forest lies the remote Honduran military base of Mocorón where combined Honduran and Joint Task Force-Bravo members conducted the twentieth iteration of Operation CARAVANA throughout the Gracias a Dios department June 8 and 9....
Story by Staff Sgt. Carmen Fleischmann | Florida National Guard Public Affairs Office | 06.14.2016
SOTO CANO, Honduras – The motto of United States Army South (ARSOUTH) is “Juntos Podemos,” which translates to “Together We Can.” For the Florida National Guardsmen of Task Force Caiman, currently deployed to Central America for this year’s Regional Alignment of Forces (RAF) mission for ARSOUTH, these words couldn’t be more fitting....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 04.03.2016
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (April 4, 2016) – For those who speak English as a second language, words like “narcotics,” “illicit,” or “trafficking” may not be as easily understood as “drugs,” “illegal,” or “trading.”...
Story by Capt. Christopher Mesnard | Joint Task Force Bravo | 11.13.2015
Joint Task Force-Bravo located at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, recently supported Operation CARAVANA which highlights a continued support from U.S. Southern Command to Honduras to help counter the trafficking of illicit drugs, weapons and money through the region....
Story by Cpl. Fatmeh Saad | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 10.22.2015
Leaders from U.S. Marine Corps Forces-South, and the Belize Defence Force visited II Marine Expeditionary Force and the School of Infantry–East as part of a three-day visit to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct. 20-22....
Story by Master Sgt. Daniel Griego | Texas Army National Guard (Texas Military Forces) | 10.07.2015
Members of the Texas Army National Guard's 72nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion recently trained with their Honduran and El Salvadoran counterparts for a four-month mentorship program at the Honduran Army Signal School in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The training, held May through September 2015, was part of the Regionally Aligned Forces’ Counter Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) partnership......