Members of the U.S. team practice rowing prior to the water event at Fuerzas Comando 2012, June 3, 2012, at the Colombian National Training Center in Tolemaida. Fuerzas Comando, established in 2004, is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored special forces skills competition and senior leaders seminar which is conducted annually in Central and South America and the Caribbean. The ninth annual event is a military skills competition, which is aimed to strengthen regional and multinational cooperation, mutual trust, enhance training, readiness and interoperability of special forces in the region.