The Department of Defense had invested $150 million in Central American relief operations thus far. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and civilian relief workers. responded with over $300 million in humanitarian assistance, providing food, medicine, emergency shelter, and agricultural assistance through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S.
Immediately after the hurricane, the U.S. Several Army National Guard units rotated through Base Camp Alpha for their two weeks of annual training. The exercise built medical clinics and schools, and distributed medicine and supplies to the rural people. National Guard set up a troop medical clinic for the hundreds of troops involved in Operation New Horizons 1998, a US military training, humanitarian and civic-action exercise in the Central American country of Honduras. United States military troops from both the active and reserve components worked with the Belize Defense Force and the Ministries of Works, Education, and Health to improve roads, build eight new school buildings, and provide free medical screening and treatment for thousands of Belizeans. New Horizons-Belize was the largest United States military training, humanitarian, and civic-action training exercise in the Western Hemisphere in 1997. The six-month Joint Task Force Pelican exercise, which kicked off in January, cost at least $16 million. Fiscal year 2002 saw three more New Horizons exercises in Barbados, Dominica, and Jamaica.Īs part of Operation New Horizons 97 a total of 3,900 National Guard and reserve soldiers were sent to the Central American country of Belize to build roads and schools and provide medical services. During 2001, Southern Command conducted three New Horizons exercises in the Caribbean area - Bahamas, St. In a region of scarce resources, New Horizons engineering and medical exercises have significantly benefited the people of the Caribbean, while enhancing the capabilities of US Armed Forces to deploy and train in foreign environments. The New Horizons exercise in Panama is led by U.S. Army South is the executive agent for the Beyond the Horizon exercise in El Salvador. The exercises are planned and coordinated closely with multiple agencies and host nation governments to creatively address the level and scope of medical care and engineering assistance required. troops work with host nation counterparts and a variety of governmental and non-governmental agencies to train in civil-military operations skill sets while providing medical and dental care and engineering support to local populations. Southern Command-sponsored, joint-foreign military humanitarian civic assistance exercises. Beyond the Horizon and New Horizons are U.S.
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