MAYPORT, Fla. –
Train PANAMAX 2022 is a U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) sponsored train that gives necessary coaching alternatives for nations to work collectively and construct upon the aptitude to plan and conduct complicated multinational operations. The train state of affairs entails safety and stability operations to make sure free stream of commerce via the Panama Canal.
U.S. forces collaborating on this 12 months’s train embrace workers parts from USSOUTHCOM, U.S. Army South, U.S. Marine Forces South, Particular Operations Command South, twelfth Air Pressure (Air Forces Southern), and U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet, together with contributors from 23 companion nations.
Roughly 300 Sailors, Marines, and public safety forces will serve on the CFMCC workers beneath the management of Argentine Rear Adm. Marcelo Fernandez, who serves as Commander, Atlantic Naval Space for the Argentine Navy.
“PANAMAX demonstrates our capability to make sure regional safety and stability via multi-national maritime operations in assist of the Panama Canal,” mentioned Fernandez. “I look ahead to the chance to work along with the U.S. and our different companion nations throughout this necessary train.”
Underneath the train state of affairs, a multinational pressure has fashioned to execute a United Nations Safety Council decision calling for protection of the Panama Canal. The pressure consists of air, land and special-forces elements, along with the maritime element, which can plan and conduct simulated operations in and across the canal and its surrounding waters within the Jap Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
There aren’t any stay forces on this 12 months’s PANAMAX. As an alternative, element staffs will work via a computer-aided state of affairs in assist of the Multinational Forces South (MNFS) Commander, Maj. Gen. William Thigpen, Commanding Normal, U.S. Army South.
Forces will take part within the coaching at varied U.S. areas together with Joint Workers Train Directorate at Suffolk, Va.; U.S. Southern Command, Doral, Fla.; Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas; Homestead Air Reserve Base, Homestead, Fla.; Davis-Monthan Air Pressure Base, Tucson, Ariz.; and Naval Station Mayport, Fla.
For the fifth straight PANAMAX, the air, land, and maritime element commanders for the train are companion nation flag/basic officers.
“PANAMAX offers an necessary alternative to construct on these lasting relationships we’ve got developed with our companions,” mentioned Rear Adm. Doug Sasse, Reserve Vice Commander for U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet, and the CFMCC Deputy Commander. “It additionally serves as invaluable platform for multinational forces to boost functionality, enhance interoperability, and strengthen partnerships.”
U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, the train host, helps U.S. Southern Command’s joint and mixed navy operations by using maritime forces in cooperative maritime safety operations with a view to preserve entry, improve interoperability, and construct enduring partnerships with a view to improve regional safety and promote peace, stability, and prosperity within the Caribbean, Central and South American areas.
