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Guatemalan teachers cook for the children at the school

Guatemalan teachers cook for the children at the school

Guatemalan teachers cook for the children at the school in El Roble, Guatemala June 18, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exercise that embraces the partnership between the United States and Guatemala, to p... More

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class, Jorge Juarez,

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class, Jorge Juarez,

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class, Jorge Juarez, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment, embarked aboard High Speed Vessel Swift, assists a Peruvian Marine from Batallon De Infanteria De Marina No. 1, on t... More

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Edward Palacios, assigned

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Edward Palacios, assigned

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Edward Palacios, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment, embarked aboard High Speed Vessel Swift, checks the chamber of a Peruvian Marine's weapon, to make sure it is clear of al... More

Donated goods for Project Handclasp are offloaded from

Donated goods for Project Handclasp are offloaded from

Donated goods for Project Handclasp are offloaded from High Speed Vessel Swift, as part of Southern Partnership Station, Feb. 16, 2012. Project Handclasp is a U.S. Navy program that accepts and transports educa... More

CONMAR 3rd Mate Damian Spedale, assigned to High Speed

CONMAR 3rd Mate Damian Spedale, assigned to High Speed

CONMAR 3rd Mate Damian Spedale, assigned to High Speed Vessel (HSV 2) Swift, loads donated goods for Project Handclasp onto a truck as part of Southern Partnership Station. Project Handclasp is a U.S. Navy prog... More

U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Charles D. Michel speaks

U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Charles D. Michel speaks

U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Charles D. Michel speaks to participants of the Seminar on Transatlantic Civil Security Alumni Community of Interest Workshop, April 25 at the Defense Department’s George C. Marshall ... More

A Guatemalan student makes posters to inform her family

A Guatemalan student makes posters to inform her family

A Guatemalan student makes posters to inform her family and neighbors of upcoming events for Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 8, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exercise that embraces the... More

Guatemalan children gather for an opening ceremony

Guatemalan children gather for an opening ceremony

Guatemalan children gather for an opening ceremony as U.S. Soldiers, Airmen, and Guatemalan soldiers break ground to construct a new school during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 8, 2014. Beyo... More

A Guatemalan student makes posters to inform her family

A Guatemalan student makes posters to inform her family

A Guatemalan student makes posters to inform her family and neighbors of upcoming events for Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 8, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exercise that embraces the... More

U.S. Army Col. John Findley, 35th Engineer Brigade,

U.S. Army Col. John Findley, 35th Engineer Brigade,

U.S. Army Col. John Findley, 35th Engineer Brigade, commander of Task Force Oso, addresses the crowd during an opening ceremony as U.S. Soldiers, Airmen, and Guatemalan soldiers break ground to construct a new ... More

The Guatemalan Army Band prepares to play for an opening

The Guatemalan Army Band prepares to play for an opening

The Guatemalan Army Band prepares to play for an opening ceremony as U.S. Army and Guatemalan Soldiers break ground to construct a new school during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 9, 2014. Be... More

A Guatemalan boy observes while his class discusses

A Guatemalan boy observes while his class discusses

A Guatemalan boy observes while his class discusses upcoming events during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 9, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exercise that embraces the partnership betwe... More

A U.S. Army Engineer moves building materials at a

A U.S. Army Engineer moves building materials at a

A U.S. Army Engineer moves building materials at a site where U.S. Army and Guatemalan Soldiers break ground to construct a new school during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 9, 2014. Beyond th... More

A local boy observes as his parents discuss an upcoming

A local boy observes as his parents discuss an upcoming

A local boy observes as his parents discuss an upcoming Medical Readiness Training Exercise with U.S. Army Soldiers during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 12, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an an... More

U.S. Army Master Sgt. John Barneson discusses an upcoming

U.S. Army Master Sgt. John Barneson discusses an upcoming

U.S. Army Master Sgt. John Barneson discusses an upcoming Medical Readiness Training Exercise with local villagers during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 12, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an ann... More

A Guatemalan girl observes as U.S. Army Soldiers discuss

A Guatemalan girl observes as U.S. Army Soldiers discuss

A Guatemalan girl observes as U.S. Army Soldiers discuss an upcoming Medical Readiness Training Exercise during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 16, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exerci... More

Guatemalan families wait in line outside a Medical

Guatemalan families wait in line outside a Medical

Guatemalan families wait in line outside a Medical Readiness Training Exercise during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 21, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exercise that embraces the partn... More

U.S. Military Dental tools are laid out and prepped

U.S. Military Dental tools are laid out and prepped

U.S. Military Dental tools are laid out and prepped for service, during a Medical Readiness Exercise during Beyond the Horizon, Gualan, Guatemala, April 22, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exercise that e... More

A Guatemalan child waits in line outside a Medical

A Guatemalan child waits in line outside a Medical

A Guatemalan child waits in line outside a Medical Readiness Training Exercise during Beyond the Horizon 2014, Zacapa, Guatemala, April 21, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exercise that embraces the partn... More

A Guatemalan soldier provides security for  U.S. Soldiers

A Guatemalan soldier provides security for U.S. Soldiers

A Guatemalan soldier provides security for U.S. Soldiers and Airmen, while they build a school during Beyond the Horizon, El Roble, Guatemala, April 21, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exercise that embr... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Adam Newhall assigned to the 318th

U.S. Army Sgt. Adam Newhall assigned to the 318th

U.S. Army Sgt. Adam Newhall assigned to the 318th Psychological Operations Company, hangs up posters notifying local Guatemalans about a medical aid event going on in their village in participation of Operatio... More

SPP CONFERENCE BEGINS IN MIAMI

SPP CONFERENCE BEGINS IN MIAMI

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Kenneth Tovo, military deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command, speaks to National Guard leaders, planners and coordinators during the start of the 2014 Western Hemisphere State Partnership... More

Sgt. 1st Class John Snider, the project site noncommissioned

Sgt. 1st Class John Snider, the project site noncommissioned

Sgt. 1st Class John Snider, the project site noncommissioned officer in charge of the Las Carretas site and member of Missouri's 35th Engineer Brigade, and the troops from the 1st Platoon of the 1430th Engineer... More

Two engineers from the Construction Company, Corps

Two engineers from the Construction Company, Corps

Two engineers from the Construction Company, Corps of Engineers of the Guatemalan Army tighten bolts in preparation for installing the roof of a two-room schoolhouse being constructed during Beyond the Horizon ... More

Staff Sgt. Rodolfo T. Olivares, a linguist of the A141

Staff Sgt. Rodolfo T. Olivares, a linguist of the A141

Staff Sgt. Rodolfo T. Olivares, a linguist of the A141 300th MI Battalion of Utah, assists Sgt. 1st Class Dan Gervasio, a soldier with the 1430th Engineer Company out of Michigan, with explaining what he is nee... More

The medical facility at Las Carretas was chosen by

The medical facility at Las Carretas was chosen by

The medical facility at Las Carretas was chosen by Beyond the Horizon 2014 – Guatemala for the construction of a new building. “It's kind of like winning the lottery or getting something from Santa,” Gladys Hay... More

Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, 1430th Engineer Company

Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, 1430th Engineer Company

Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, 1430th Engineer Company of the Michigan Army National Guard and Guatemalan soldiers from the Corps of Engineers of Guatemala install the roof of the two-room schoolhouse being built h... More

Soldiers from the 2nd platoon of the 1430th Engineer

Soldiers from the 2nd platoon of the 1430th Engineer

Soldiers from the 2nd platoon of the 1430th Engineer Company of Michigan work alongside Guatemalan soldiers to build a two-room school building May 7, 2014 during Beyond the Horizon 2014 – Guatemala. Beyond the... More

Sgt. 1st Class Norma Christensen, a solider with the

Sgt. 1st Class Norma Christensen, a solider with the

Sgt. 1st Class Norma Christensen, a solider with the 152nd Theater Information Operations Group in California, is presented a rose during a celebration for Mother's Day May 10, 2014 at the Second Infantry Briga... More

Cabo Primero Miguel Diaz Lara (left) and Sub Lt. Carlos

Cabo Primero Miguel Diaz Lara (left) and Sub Lt. Carlos

Cabo Primero Miguel Diaz Lara (left) and Sub Lt. Carlos Urriaga Hidalgo, both with the Number 8 Chiloe Engineer Regiment 4th Division Chilean army, tighten up bolts before installing the roof portion of a three... More

A group of U.S. Army Soldiers talk to one of the Community

A group of U.S. Army Soldiers talk to one of the Community

A group of U.S. Army Soldiers talk to one of the Community Counsel of Development Officers about fixing a damaged school as a part of the mission of Beyond the Horizon, Rio Grande, Guatemala, May 9, 2014. Beyon... More

Troops from the United States and Guatemalan armies

Troops from the United States and Guatemalan armies

Troops from the United States and Guatemalan armies play a game of soccer against the Guatemalan Municipal Transit Police May 11, 2014, during Beyond the Horizon 2014 – Guatemala. “Most of our interactions with... More

Pfc. Josiah Williams, chaplain’s assistant of the 372nd

Pfc. Josiah Williams, chaplain’s assistant of the 372nd

Pfc. Josiah Williams, chaplain’s assistant of the 372nd Engineer Brigade of Minnesota, reads along during a religious service offered by Lt. Col. John Meyer, chaplain of the 372nd Engineer Brigade, during Beyon... More

Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Vitale (right), of the 35th

Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Vitale (right), of the 35th

Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Vitale (right), of the 35th Engineer Brigade of Missouri, plays a game of volleyball against several Guatemalan soldiers during Beyond the Horizon 2014 – Guatemala May 11, 2014. “It becom... More

Sgt. 1st Class Delmer Horman, from the HHC 935th Aviation

Sgt. 1st Class Delmer Horman, from the HHC 935th Aviation

Sgt. 1st Class Delmer Horman, from the HHC 935th Aviation Support Battalion in Missouri and the food service noncommissioned officer in charge, spends time with the soldiers he is providing food to May 13, 2014... More

Soldiers from the 105th Quartermaster Water Purification

Soldiers from the 105th Quartermaster Water Purification

Soldiers from the 105th Quartermaster Water Purification and Distribution Company from the Puerto Rico Army National Guard fill up a water buffalo in support of Beyond the Horizon 2014 - Guatemala, Tuesday, May... More

A soldier with the 1035th Support Maintenance Company,

A soldier with the 1035th Support Maintenance Company,

A soldier with the 1035th Support Maintenance Company, Missouri Army National Guard, works on a piece of equipment in support of Beyond the Horizon 2014 - Guatemala, Monday, May 12. Beyond the Horizon is a join... More

The school children at El Roble give the soldiers from

The school children at El Roble give the soldiers from

The school children at El Roble give the soldiers from the 1437th Multi-Role Bridge Company and the 1430th Engineer Company hugs and hand shakes after a presentation of the latest construction and a new play ar... More

The school children at El Roble give the soldiers from

The school children at El Roble give the soldiers from

The school children at El Roble give the soldiers from the 1437th Multi-Role Bridge Company and the 1430th Engineer Company hugs and hand shakes after a presentation of the latest construction and a new play ar... More

U.S. Army Spc. Rane Crosley, a Soldier with the 318th

U.S. Army Spc. Rane Crosley, a Soldier with the 318th

U.S. Army Spc. Rane Crosley, a Soldier with the 318th Psychological Operations Company, speaks with Guatemalan citizens about a medical clinic, during Beyond the Horizon, Lomas Abajo, Guatemala, May 19, 2014. B... More

U.S. Amy Soldiers from the 318th Psychological Operations

U.S. Amy Soldiers from the 318th Psychological Operations

U.S. Amy Soldiers from the 318th Psychological Operations Company speak with a Guatemalan adolescent, during Beyond the Horizon, Sabanda Grande, Guatemala, May 21, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exerci... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Amos of the Arizona Medical

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Amos of the Arizona Medical

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Amos of the Arizona Medical Detachment, cleans dental equipment at a Medical Readiness Training Exercise during Beyond the Horizon, Lomas Abajo, Guatemala, May 22, 2014. Beyond the ... More

A U.S. Army Soldier from the 318th Psychological Operations

A U.S. Army Soldier from the 318th Psychological Operations

A U.S. Army Soldier from the 318th Psychological Operations Company speaks with a group of Guatemalan citizens waiting for medical treatment during Beyond the Horizon, Lomas Abajo, Guatemala, May 22, 2014. Beyo... More

A Guatemalan man speaks with U.S. Army Soldiers from

A Guatemalan man speaks with U.S. Army Soldiers from

A Guatemalan man speaks with U.S. Army Soldiers from the 318th Psychological Operations Company about a Medical Readiness Training Exercise, during Beyond the Horizon, San Jose, Guatemala, May 23, 2014. Beyond ... More

U.S. Army Capt. David Ryan, of the Arizona Medical

U.S. Army Capt. David Ryan, of the Arizona Medical

U.S. Army Capt. David Ryan, of the Arizona Medical Detachment, prepares for a dental procedure at a Medical Readiness Training Exercise during Beyond the Horizon, San Jose, Guatemala, May 27, 2014. Beyond the H... More

Staff Sgt. Yalitza Correa, a National Guard soldier

Staff Sgt. Yalitza Correa, a National Guard soldier

Staff Sgt. Yalitza Correa, a National Guard soldier with the Arizona Medical Detachment, affixes wrist bands to patients as part of the inprocessing for a medical clinic conducted by her unit for the residents ... More

A U.S. Army Soldier loads medical supplies that will

A U.S. Army Soldier loads medical supplies that will

A U.S. Army Soldier loads medical supplies that will be used for a Medical Readiness Training Exercise during Beyond the Horizon, at Rio Grande, Guatemala, on June 2, 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exerc... More

U.S. Army Soldiers from 318th Psychological Operations

U.S. Army Soldiers from 318th Psychological Operations

U.S. Army Soldiers from 318th Psychological Operations Company conduct follow-up assessments for a medical readiness training exercise June 6, 2014 in Zacapa, Guatemala. As part of Task Force Oso, the group is ... More

A local woman awaits a buyer for her chicken prior

A local woman awaits a buyer for her chicken prior

A local woman awaits a buyer for her chicken prior to the closing ceremony of the newly built medical clinic in Las Carretas, June 18, 2014, during Beyond the Horizon 2014. Beyond the Horizon is an annual exerc... More

The South Carolina National Guard hosted a visit for

The South Carolina National Guard hosted a visit for

The South Carolina National Guard hosted a visit for students from the Colombian War College and gave them operations briefings on the various functions of the South Carolina Military Department at the Joint Op... More

U.S. Army medics with Special Operations Command South

U.S. Army medics with Special Operations Command South

U.S. Army medics with Special Operations Command South prepare a Kentucky National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for flight May 2, 2016, in Ancon, Peru ahead of Fuerzas Comando 2016, a multinational special... More

A competitor for Team Guyana fires at a stationary

A competitor for Team Guyana fires at a stationary

A competitor for Team Guyana fires at a stationary target during a Fuerzas Comando event in Ancon, Peru, May 3, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Joanna Bradshaw/Released)

International judges talk operations atop a hill as

International judges talk operations atop a hill as

International judges talk operations atop a hill as part of Fuerzas Comando on May 3, 2016 in Ancon, Peru. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Chad Menegay/Released)

A Guatemala competitor fires his rifle during an assault

A Guatemala competitor fires his rifle during an assault

A Guatemala competitor fires his rifle during an assault team event May 4, 2016 as part of Fuerzas Comando 2016 in Ancon, Peru. Fuerzas Comando is a U.S. Southern Command sponsered multinational special operat... More

A competitor drags a simulated casualty during an assault

A competitor drags a simulated casualty during an assault

A competitor drags a simulated casualty during an assault team event May 4, 2016, as part of Fuerzas Comando 2016 in Ancon, Peru. Fuerzas Comando is a U.S. Southern Command sponsored multinational special oper... More

A Jamaican competitor fires his rifle during an assault

A Jamaican competitor fires his rifle during an assault

A Jamaican competitor fires his rifle during an assault team event May 4, 2016, as part of Fuerzas Comando 2016 in Ancon, Peru. Fuerzas Comando is a U.S. Southern Command sponsored multinational special operat... More

A Peruvian military ambulatory vehicle provides medical

A Peruvian military ambulatory vehicle provides medical

A Peruvian military ambulatory vehicle provides medical support at a sniper range during Fuerzas Comando 2016 May 5, in Ancon, Peru. Fuerzas Comando is a U.S. Southern Command sponsored multinational special op... More

A Suriname special operations competitor prepares to

A Suriname special operations competitor prepares to

A Suriname special operations competitor prepares to haul his ruck sack after a 500 meter swim in the Pacific Ocean on May 6, as part of Fuerzas Comando 2016 in Ancon, Peru. Fuerzas Comando is a U.S. Southern C... More

Fuerzas Comando 2016 competitors swim while dragging

Fuerzas Comando 2016 competitors swim while dragging

Fuerzas Comando 2016 competitors swim while dragging 35 lb. rucksacks through the water May 7, 2016 on the shores of Ancon, Peru. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Joanna Bradshaw/Released)

Chile and U.S. planners receive a command update brief

Chile and U.S. planners receive a command update brief

Chile and U.S. planners receive a command update brief about simulated training scenarios July 20, 2016 during Chilean exercise Southern Star in Antofagasta, Chile. Known as Estrella Austral in Spanish, the exe... More

U.S. Naval Special Warfare and Trinidad and Tobago

U.S. Naval Special Warfare and Trinidad and Tobago

U.S. Naval Special Warfare and Trinidad and Tobago special navy units conduct maritime operations aboard a Trinidadian and Tobagonian coast guard vessel Sept. 27, 2016 during a culmination exercise in the Gulf ... More

U.S. Air Force Maj. Sarah Reynolds, a pediatrician

U.S. Air Force Maj. Sarah Reynolds, a pediatrician

U.S. Air Force Maj. Sarah Reynolds, a pediatrician with the 21st Medical Operations Squadron out of Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., with the help of a volunteer interpreter with the organization Sanar una Nació... More

U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Wehmeyer, the 346th Air

U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Wehmeyer, the 346th Air

U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Wehmeyer, the 346th Air Expeditionary Group commander, participates in an interview with a local reporter at a baseball clinic the task force hosted for area children May 20, 2017, i... More

U.S. Marines assigned to the 4th Civil Affairs Group

U.S. Marines assigned to the 4th Civil Affairs Group

U.S. Marines assigned to the 4th Civil Affairs Group visit students from Mucurapo West Secondary School in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, during Phase II of Exercise Tradewinds 2017, June 13, 2017. The Ma... More

Soldiers from the Belize Defence Force prepare their

Soldiers from the Belize Defence Force prepare their

Soldiers from the Belize Defence Force prepare their gear prior to conducting a simulated raid during Phase II of Tradewinds 2017 exercise in Port of Spain, Trinidad, June 13, 2017. Tradewinds, an annual U.S. S... More

A C-130 Hercules with the Delaware Air National Guard

A C-130 Hercules with the Delaware Air National Guard

A C-130 Hercules with the Delaware Air National Guard carrying service members from several different countries lands at Piarco International Airport in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, June 13, 2017, during... More

Service members from Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and

Service members from Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and

Service members from Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Mexican Marines discuss the objective before conducting a simulated raid on a hangar during Phase II of Exercise Tradewinds 2017 in Chaguaramas, Tr... More

Barbados Defence Force Pvt. Deweyne Green provides

Barbados Defence Force Pvt. Deweyne Green provides

Barbados Defence Force Pvt. Deweyne Green provides security at a vehicle check point during Phase II of Exercise Tradewinds 2017 in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, June 14, 2017. Tradewinds, an annual exercis... More

U.S. and Mexican Marines go on a formation run together

U.S. and Mexican Marines go on a formation run together

U.S. and Mexican Marines go on a formation run together during Phase II of Exercise Tradewinds in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, June 15, 2017. Tradewinds, sponsored by U.S. Southern Command, brings together... More

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bonds Jr., a bulk fuel

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bonds Jr., a bulk fuel

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bonds Jr., a bulk fuel specialist with Combat Logistics Battalion 23, 4th Marine Logistics Group, delivers a box of ammunition to Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force soldiers during ... More

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Abraham Blocker, a civil affairs

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Abraham Blocker, a civil affairs

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Abraham Blocker, a civil affairs specialist with 4th Civil Affairs Group, speaks with school children at Carenage Boy Government Primary School as part of a community relations event duri... More

U.S. Marine Sgt. Mike Meehan, a civil affairs specialist

U.S. Marine Sgt. Mike Meehan, a civil affairs specialist

U.S. Marine Sgt. Mike Meehan, a civil affairs specialist with 4th Civil Affairs Group, waves to young students at the Carenage Boy Government Primary School at a community relations event during Phase II of Exe... More

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Jonathan Hernandez, the exercise

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Jonathan Hernandez, the exercise

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Jonathan Hernandez, the exercise support staff noncommissioned officer in charge with U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South, ensures all plaques are ready to be presented during the closing cer... More

U.S. Marine Col. Michael Farrell, center, chief of

U.S. Marine Col. Michael Farrell, center, chief of

U.S. Marine Col. Michael Farrell, center, chief of staff for Marine Corps Forces, South , speaks with other service members at the closing ceremony for Phase II of Tradewinds 2017, in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and ... More

Lt. Col. Angel Martinez, Special Operation Command

Lt. Col. Angel Martinez, Special Operation Command

Lt. Col. Angel Martinez, Special Operation Command South's Training and Exercise Deputy Director, speaks to Fuerzas Comando 2017 participants at the opening ceremony July 17 at The Institute of Army Education i... More

Team Mexico celebrate their completion of the first

Team Mexico celebrate their completion of the first

Team Mexico celebrate their completion of the first event of the Fuerzas Comando competition July 17, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Competitors participate in events during the exercise th... More

A Brazilian sniper team works together to place a simulated

A Brazilian sniper team works together to place a simulated

A Brazilian sniper team works together to place a simulated casualty on a table during Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Participating nations share a longstanding history of cooperati... More

A Guatemalan competitor sets his sights on a target

A Guatemalan competitor sets his sights on a target

A Guatemalan competitor sets his sights on a target at the field sniper event July 18, 2017, at Paraguari, Paraguay, as part of Fuerzas Commando. Fuerzas Comando is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored exercise ex... More

A member of Team Paraguay peers through the scope of

A member of Team Paraguay peers through the scope of

A member of Team Paraguay peers through the scope of his long range rifle before a sniper event for Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando allows Paraguay to partner with su... More

A Dominican competitor scans the range for targets

A Dominican competitor scans the range for targets

A Dominican competitor scans the range for targets over his sniper rifle July 19, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Paraguari, Paraguay. The field shoot event required a two-man rifle team to hit 10 long-range tar... More

A competitor from Team Guatemala races toward his first

A competitor from Team Guatemala races toward his first

A competitor from Team Guatemala races toward his first target during a shooting event July 20, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando helps Guatemalan forces share and contribu... More

A Guyanese sniper loads a round into his rifle while

A Guyanese sniper loads a round into his rifle while

A Guyanese sniper loads a round into his rifle while his teammate scans the range for targets July 19, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando at Paraguari, Paraguay. The Guyanese sniper team is one of 20 countries competi... More

A two-man Salvadoran sniper team drags 150-pound litters

A two-man Salvadoran sniper team drags 150-pound litters

A two-man Salvadoran sniper team drags 150-pound litters during the FBI Shoot and Movers event July 19, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The competitors had to drag the litters 100 meters ... More

Competitors of Team Panama prepare for the stalk-and-shoot

Competitors of Team Panama prepare for the stalk-and-shoot

Competitors of Team Panama prepare for the stalk-and-shoot event July 20, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Ñu Guazú, Paraguay. One of the goals of Fuerzas Comando is to provide a venue for partnershipbamongst pa... More

A Dominican competitor drags a litter during a timed

A Dominican competitor drags a litter during a timed

A Dominican competitor drags a litter during a timed sniper stress event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a multinational competition that aims to improve train... More

An Argentine competitor runs to the next set of targets

An Argentine competitor runs to the next set of targets

An Argentine competitor runs to the next set of targets in the stress shoot event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a multinational competition that builds count... More

A Panamanian special forces team member drags a 150-pound

A Panamanian special forces team member drags a 150-pound

A Panamanian special forces team member drags a 150-pound litter for 200 meters (656 feet) as part of a sniper stress shoot during Fuerzas Comando July 21, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The sniper stress shoo... More

Mexican competitors run toward a live-fire shoot house

Mexican competitors run toward a live-fire shoot house

Mexican competitors run toward a live-fire shoot house July 22, 2017 during a combined assault event at Fuerzas Comando in Cerrito, Paraguay. Competitors in this event attempt to clear a building and rescue a s... More

Mexican competitors load their weapons before a combined

Mexican competitors load their weapons before a combined

Mexican competitors load their weapons before a combined assault event July 22, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Cerrito, Paraguay. In the event, teams must clear a house and rescue a hostage. (U.S. Army photo i... More

Paraguayan competitors hurdle lines during the obstacle

Paraguayan competitors hurdle lines during the obstacle

Paraguayan competitors hurdle lines during the obstacle course event as part of Fuerzas Comando on July 24, 2017, at Vista Alegre, Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a foreign military competition d... More

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander of

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander of

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, observes U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers navigate an obstacle during Fuerzas Comando held in Vista Alegre, Paraguay, July, 2... More

A Costa Rican competitor as seen after completing the

A Costa Rican competitor as seen after completing the

A Costa Rican competitor as seen after completing the grueling Special Forces-style obstacle course July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The event tested competitors' physical and me... More

Paraguayan competitors cross a set of monkey bars during

Paraguayan competitors cross a set of monkey bars during

Paraguayan competitors cross a set of monkey bars during the obstacle course event of Fuerzas Comando on July 24, 2017, in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a competition that fosters friendships and d... More

Belizean competitors stretch before the team event

Belizean competitors stretch before the team event

Belizean competitors stretch before the team event at Fuerzas Comando on July 25, 2017, in Jose Falcon, Paraguay. The team event consists of a 14-kilometer ruck march while picking up and moving various objects... More

A Salvadoran competitor packs his parachute after the

A Salvadoran competitor packs his parachute after the

A Salvadoran competitor packs his parachute after the friendship jump July 26, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Nu Guazu, Paraguay. The competition aims to enhance multinational cooperation, interoperability, tr... More

U.S. Special Forces soldiers receive the third-place

U.S. Special Forces soldiers receive the third-place

U.S. Special Forces soldiers receive the third-place trophy for the Fuerzas Comando competition July 27, 2017, during the closing ceremony in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joanna Brad... More

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Senior leaders attending the

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Senior leaders attending the

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Senior leaders attending the 2017 Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) in Georgetown, Guyana, gather for an official photo following the opening ceremony Dec. 6. CANSEC is an an... More

Service members with the Special Operations Command

Service members with the Special Operations Command

Service members with the Special Operations Command South conduct a Sustained Airborne Training at Soto Cano Air Base, Feb. 21, 2018. The training has to be completed with at least 24 hours prior to a jump and ... More

MIAMI -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and

MIAMI -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and

MIAMI -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command, greet each other shortly after the president arrived at the military headquarters to thank it... More

180727-N-GX781-0017 CARIBBEAN SEA (July 27, 2018) Fire

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