DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2014 – Security forces from 21
countries will participate in Fuerzas Comando 2014 in Colombia tomorrow through
Aug. 1, Defense Department officials announced today.
Fuerzas Comando is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored
exercise that has been conducted in Central and South America and the Caribbean
since 2004, officials said.
The Colombian military is hosting the multinational special
operations skills competition. About 700 military, law enforcement and civilian
personnel from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts, Trinidad and Tobago, the
United States, and Uruguay will participate.
Through friendly competition, officials said, the exercise
promotes military-to-military relationships, increases training knowledge and
improves regional security. The nine-day event will demonstrate and test
participants’ skills through special operations forces competitions, they
added, and will include an executive combating terrorism fellowship program
focused on topics such as combating terrorism, organized crime and illicit
trafficking.
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