Citizen-soldiers of 101st Troop Command of the Puerto Rico Army National Guard went to the town of Ingenioh (Inn-Je-knee-oh) in the municipality of Yabucoa (ya-boo-ko-ahh), Puerto Rico. Their mission was to deliver some relief supplies to assist with the recovery effort, upon arriving they handed out food and water and listened to the concerns of the townsfolk.
After many years without seeing his family, Pvt Sair Silverio, an engineer with the 926th Engineer Brigade, 844th Engineer Battalion, 390th Engineer Company out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, finally reunites with them during the Opening Ceremony for the humanitarian assistance exercise Beyond the Horizon on May 31, in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador. BTH is a Southern Command, US Army South led exercise in which personnel from the Army Reserve, National Guard and active-duty forces construct schools and clinics and provide medical, dental and veterinary support. During the exercise, nearly 1800 U.S. service personnel representing Army, Air Force and Marines deploy to El Salvador in 2018.
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LA PAZ, El Salvador – Pvt. Sair Silverio, an US Army Reserve interior electrician with the 926th Engineer Brigade, 844th Engineer Battalion, 390th Engineer Company out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, has returned to El Salvador to literally put in his grain of sand alongside his Salvadoran and US peers in what will be El Amate School Center in the La Paz Department as part of Beyond the Horizon 2018.
As long as Sair can remember, his mom wanted him to get in touch with his roots, spend some time with his family and learn about El Salvador, so she sent him there in 2015, but only to receive him back no more than a year later in his hometown Atlanta, Georgia.
And even though he had to change his plans to study here, learn more...
