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May 31, 2024

 Disaster Preparedness with El Salvador  

                    NEJAPA, El Salvador —                                                Joint Task Force-Bravo and U.S. Agency for International Development along with 25 participates from El Salvador’s Civil Protection, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Public Works, Red Cross, National Police, firefighters, and more from emergency services came together for exercise Sentinel Watch at the El Salvador General Directorate of Civil Protection in Nejapa, El Salvador, May 21-22, 2024.            

April 29, 2024

 Multinational Firefighting Teams Train Together During CENTAM Smoke 

                    SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras   —                                                The multinational exercise CENTAM SMOKE ended with a closing ceremony awarding the five participating countries’ firefighters at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, April 26, 2024.            

April 26, 2024

 El Salvador sends the first female firefighter to participate in CENTAM SMOKE  

                    SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras  —                                                A female firefighter from the Fire Department of El Salvador was the first to participate in CENTAM SMOKE at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, from April 22-26, 2024.             

Dec. 14, 2022

 NH Guard, Salvadoran Cyber Teams Strengthen Partnership 

                                Backlit by the soft blue glow of nearly a dozen computer screens, a joint cyber team from the New Hampshire National Guard assessed El Salvador’s burgeoning cyber unit during a State Partnership Program exchange Dec. 5-9.            

Aug. 3, 2022

 Strengthening Partnerships Before the Storm 

                    San Salvador, El Salvador —                                                U.S. military and civilian personnel from Joint Task Force-Bravo (JTF-Bravo), a unit under the U.S. Southern Command (U.S. SOUTHCOM) based out of Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA), integrated efforts with the Salvadoran Armed Forces and Civil Protection System during Sentinel Watch, a combined training exercise to build disaster response readiness, 27-28 July.            

July 21, 2022

 1-228th Aviation Regiment and U.S. Navy build Central American support capability 

                    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.            

June 3, 2022

 New Hampshire National Guard, El Salvador Build on SPP Relationship 

                    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —                                                After two years of sporadic correspondence, it only took a few minutes of face time for N.H. Adjutant Gen. David Mikolaities and Salvadoran Defense Minister René Merino to reaffirm their commitment to the New Hampshire National Guard-El Salvador State Partnership Program.            

June 4, 2021

 JTF-B Donates Essential Materials to School in Mogotillo, El Salvador Through HAP 

                    MOGOTILLO, El Salvador  —                                                Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo (JTF-B), Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, donated $2,254 of construction materials to the Jose Anastasio Bonilla Education Center, May 16, through U.S. Southern Command’s (USSOUTHCOM) Humanitarian Assistance Program.            

May 7, 2021

 JTF-Bravo Conducts Rapid Response Exercise 

                    Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras —                                                Joint Task Force-Bravo, a U.S. Southern Command unit at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, will conduct a rapid response exercise with the Salvadoran Military to simulate a natural disaster response in and around La Union, El Salvador from 10-22 May.             

Jan. 22, 2021

 USS Freedom Completes Trilateral Exercise With El Salvador, Guatemala 

                                (EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN) The Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) executed a passing exercise (PASSEX) with its naval counterparts from El Salvador and Guatemala, Jan. 21.             

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