In Africa, our soldiers are part of the African Crisis Response Initiative, a training plan to prepare African military units to support limited peacekeeping or humanitarian relief operations on their continent. At various locations worldwide, soldiers are working as part of humanitarian de-mining operations. Their goal is to help prevent further deaths and maimings of innocent people, many of them children, who are present victims of past conflicts. In Latin America our citizen-soldiers support humanitarian missions. They are building trust and cooperation through medical training missions and regional cooperative security programs.
Soldiers drill wells and build roads, schools, and health clinics.
Children near a remote village near the Pacific side of the Panamanian coast wave at members of the 99th's 463rd Engineer Battalion, from Wheeling, W. Va., who are building a school the children will soon start attending. In Haiti, Army Reserve soldiers joined other veterans, on their own free time and with no pay, to start the School of Hope to teach English to Haitians. In addition to overseas deployments, Army Reserve training divisions provide tactical, technical and professional training to active Army, Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers. Its doctors staff Army medical facilities, and its logistics units perform daily transportation and supply missions. At home, Army Reserve soldiers perform vital missions during disasters.