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SOUTHCOM Focus Area: Rapid Response

​We continuously plan and prepare for crisis and contingency response through a wide range of cooperative security initiatives.

U.S. Marines with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Southern Command board a CH-53 Super Stallion in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 9, 2015.

U.S. Marines with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Southern Command board a CH-53 Super Stallion in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 9, 2015.

Our cooperative security initiatives hone the skills of U.S. forces while building trust among  our interagency, non-governmental, private sector, and regional military and security partners.

Training and  engagement activities include military and peacekeeping exercises, regional security conferences, humanitarian and disaster relief  operations, and exchanges that enhance capacity and readiness throughout the region.

Our Rapid Response Efforts & Missions

ROSEAU, Dominica (Aug. 3, 2015) The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is moored pierside in Roseau, Dominica during Continuing Promise 2015. Humanitarian Assistance  ​

A U.S. Soldier hands out food and water to Haitians Jan. 22, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during earthquake relief effortsForeign Disaster Relief

A Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf boarding team conducts an interdiction of a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel suspected of smuggling 7.5 tons of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Aug. 31, 2015. Operation Martillo

 

 

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