Confronting Threats to Security in the Americas: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics, and Terrorism of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, June 22, 1999, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 33 pages |
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Page 26 - There, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN...
Page 10 - ... airlift assets on Puerto Rico. Collocation of ground and air forces is imperative for precise planning and rapid execution of crucial missions. In the form of Joint Task Force Bravo, United States Southern Command has maintained a continuous presence at the Soto Cano Airbase in Honduras since 1983. JTF Bravo is a contingent of about 500 soldiers and airmen who have for 16 years occupied temporary, expeditionary facilities on the east side of the airfield. Soto Cano has been, and will continue...
Page 10 - ... commands within the AOR, negotiating access to those sites and obtaining the funding needed to support unit relocations. At this point we have made substantial progress, but there remain pieces of the puzzle not yet in place. Puerto Rico will replace Panama as our main operating hub in the region. United States Army South (USARSO) is in the process of relocating its headquarters to Fort Buchanan. Once reestablished, this force of 1,382 active and Reserve component soldiers and civilians will...
Page 11 - To this end, the study is sponsored jointly by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (OASD/SO/LIC) and the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (DOS/R).
Page 10 - ... active and Reserve component soldiers and civilians will undertake the missions previously carried out by a contingent of 3,868 in Panama. To compensate for reduced manning, USARSO will rely heavily on the more than 16,000 Army and Air Force Guardsmen and reservists on Puerto Rico. In a great many ways this is an ideal marriage. Puerto Rican guardsmen and reservists are bilingual making them equally effective whether conducting engagement activities with members of English-speaking militaries...
Page 11 - Miami has supported our mission and, in addition, afforded us opportunities to pursue "smart business" practices in providing support services to the Southern Command military community. Consistent with my desire to nurture and fully support "smart business" and business reform efforts, I believe the United States Government will be best served by purchasing our headquarters building and land ... a small parcel of real estate that does not constitute a "Fort Miami.
Page 10 - ... fast-breaking requirements. To perform these demanding missions the troops must be close to the action and keep a sharp edge on their language and cultural skills. Congress has been notified that we intend to relocate approximately 350 members of SOCSOUTH to Naval Air Station, Roosevelt Roads, this summer. We are also finalizing basing arrangements for selected command and control and intratheater airlift assets on Puerto Rico. Collocation of ground and air forces is imperative for precise planning...
Page 14 - JCS, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House...
Page 12 - pulse" operations we have conducted in the Caribbean. The first such operation, "Frontier Shield", was conducted to interdict the heavy flow of drugs through Puerto Rico and the US Virgin islands in the Eastern Caribbean. Anticipating that pressure on the Eastern vector would force the traffickers to shift to maritime routes through the Central Caribbean we conducted a follow on operation, "Frontier Lance", that targeted routes to and through Hispaniola. A third operation, "Frontier Saber...
Page 12 - ... achieve our counternarcotics goals. The components of the strategy are: ( 1) application of innovative tactics, techniques and procedures; (2) promoting effective regional responses and (3) pursuing better coordination and more effective employment of interagency resources. • Innovative Approaches: We have learned that the traffickers study and analyze our operating patterns in much the same way we study and analyze theirs. Based on their observations they frequently revise their modus operand!