JCOC Experience ‘Invaluable’
MIAMI, April 26, 2008 – The cost of a pound of coffee in Colombia: $8. A hand-carved souvenir iguana from Cuba: $10. A cold beer in Honduras: $1.
Traveling throughout Central and South America talking to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines and seeing firsthand the U.S. military’s role in the region: priceless. Story
Delivering School Supplies
SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras, April 25, 2008 – As Chris Camacho passed out soccer balls yesterday to a smiling group of local children in a dusty village just down the road from here, he thought of his father, who grew up in an impoverished area of Guadalajara, Mexico, and used to play soccer using a tube sock stuffed with rolled-up newspapers. Story
Participant Revisits Past
CARTAGENA, Colombia, April 24, 2008 – It’s been more than three decades since Tim Hudson bounced across this country’s back roads in an old Bluebird bus and ended up in this historic coastal town. Story
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U.S. Mission in Colombia Impresses Civic Leaders
BOGOTA, Colombia, April 23, 2008 – As a senior vice president of investments for UBS in Cincinnati, Steve Lee never gave much thought to Colombia. Story
Learning About Life Aboard a Navy Aircraft Carrier at Sea
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 22, 2008 – Forty-eight business, civic and local government leaders visited the USS George Washington about 80 miles off shore from here April 20, and a lucky dozen got to spend the night on the ship. Story
Mom Sees What Navy Life
Could Be Like for Son
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 22, 2008 – Since the fourth grade, Wendy Wachtell’s son, Jameson, has wanted to attend the U.S. Naval Academy. Story
Visiting
Guantanamo Bay
U.S. NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY,Cuba, April 20, 2008 – At 85 years of age, David Oreck, a self-described unashamed, flag-waving patriot and World War II veteran, found himself yesterday standing here, on the soil of one of the last dedicated communist nations in the world. Story
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Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt, the Navy Team Leader for JCOC 75, shares
his daily blogs about the group's activities and adventures, observations
and perceptions during their visit to U.S. Southern Command.
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JCOC: Day One
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2008 – Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said he was often asked after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, ‘Why?’ Story
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