Honduras hosted U.S. Southern Command–(SOUTHCOM) sponsored Senior Leadership Seminar, Particular Operations Challenges and Capabilities within the Face of Rising Threats in Standard Eventualities. The occasion, held along with exercise Fuerzas Comando 2022, was held in Tegucigalpa, June 13–24.
The seminar introduced collectively navy, Protection, and academia officers from 22 international locations of the hemisphere, all strategic leaders in navy decision-making, together with representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, america, and Uruguay.
“Among the many regional threats that the majority have an effect on residents are gangs and narcotrafficking,”Army First Lieutenant José Antonio Coello, Honduran Armed Forces spokesman, instructed Diálogo. “States should battle relentlessly towards these scourges, since they’re the principle drivers of violence.”
Honduran Secretary of Protection José Manuel Zelaya Rosales mentioned that “the manpower that got here out of the LeadershipSeminar is pure gold.” He additionally emphasised that that is considered one of SOUTHCOM’s many types of helps to Honduras.
“This can be a globalized world and we are able to not suppose that what occurs in a rustic 1000’s of kilometers away is not going to have an effect on us, whether or not at an financial, social, political,or navy degree,” Zelaya mentioned. “Most of these joint technique seminars permit us to remain one step forward of any regional risk.”
“Every of the taking part international locations face comparable issues and offered their experiences and capabilities on how to fight them,” 1st Lt. Coello mentioned. “[We analyzed] tips on how to obtain higher safety requirements, share data on the battle towards organized crime, and in addition strengthen ties of friendship and cooperation by way of nation integration.”
Audio system and consultants
Attendees consolidated standards and methods associated to planning for the usage of Special Forces as a navy element within the safety of the Western Hemisphere.
A bunch of audio system from the Joint Particular Operations College (JSOU) of U.S. Particular Operations Command (USSOCOM) lectured individuals on the threats posed by legal networks; strategic challenges to face new transnational threats, conflicts amid the inhabitants; legal communitythreats and buildings; in addition to joint, coordinated, and multinational particular operations.
U.S. Army Colonel (ret.) Dr. Isaiah Wilson III, JSOU president, mentioned the convention was a superb return to face-to-face actionspublish pandemic, which “for many people resumed a number of months in the past.”
“I see you all as companions in attaining victory, in nurturing the organizational and operational community with new methods of doing our occupation,” Dr. Wilson mentioned. “The precedence is to feed the networks to fight threats within the area.”
Deployment of abilities
Throughout the seminar, individuals had been invited to the First Special Forces Battalioncommon headquarters to watch an indication of the response capabilities of Honduras’ elite commandos in particular operations towards organized crime and worldwide narcotrafficking.
Within the simulation, the elite commando arrived at a clandestine airstrip the place a terrorist cell was holding hostages in an airplane. Service members demonstrated their shut fight, sniper, andcounterterrorism coaching, utilizing particular tools and state-of-the-art expertise.
On the bottom, an assault staff initiated the assault, whereas from plane, fast-roping, one other group of the elite staff went into motion, efficiently freeing the hostages and transferring them to a protected place.
Honduran Naval Drive Vice Admiral José Jorge Fortín Aguilar, chief of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, invited the individuals to stay united as a result of “solely collectively can we confront the threats.”
“We’re grateful to Southern Command for giving us the required assist, and I thank the taking part international locations as a result of that is what makes us stronger,” he concluded.
