U.S. Southern Command

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 00:00
The United States and four Western Hemisphere nations today completed a week-long operational demonstration of an internet-based collaboration technology that aims to significantly improve unclassified information sharing among nations cooperating to dete
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 00:00
The CARICOM Disaster Response Unit, or CDRU, is a 35-person quasi-military team made up of military members, firefighters and police officers from 18 separate Caribbean nations.
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 00:00
The donated equipment is part of three recently completed projects valued at over $500,000 by the SOUTHCOM Office of Security Cooperation (MAAG) Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) .
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 00:00
Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge offload approximately 1,500 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated wholesale value of $23 million, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Monday.
Monday, March 17, 2014 - 00:00
Colombian military officials learned about the inner workings of the Defense Logistics Agency March 5-7 during a visit to several of the agency’s activities
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 00:00
"I simply sit and watch it go by," he continued. "And because of service cuts, I don't expect to get any immediate relief, in terms of assets, to work with in this region of the world"
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 00:00
U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) aboard on the USS Halyburton seized more than $12 million in cocaine during two separate cases in February in support of Operation Martillo.
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 00:00
The training was conducted in order to allow military members to maintain proficiency in a variety of skill sets as well as to prepare for future operations and exercises throughout Central America.
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 00:00
This interdiction was carried out as part of Operation Martillo, which is one component in the United States government's whole-of-government approach to countering the use of the Central American littorals as transshipment routes.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 00:00
Deployed since July 25, 2013, the officers and crew of Rentz, in conjunction with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 49 and U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachments, disrupted four shipments of cocaine, totaling nearly 2,000 kilograms.

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