Members of the Panamanian team practice for the water event portion of the Fuerzas Comando competition, 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 leader seminar which is conducted annually in Central and South America and the Caribbean. The 9th 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.