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Exercise "Fuerzas Aliadas Cabañas"

Cabañas 2002, October 18-29, 2002 5
Exercise type Foreign Military Interaction Field Training Exercise (FMI FTX).

"Foreign Military Interaction" or "multinational" exercises are carried out jointly with other militaries, normally several at a time.

A "Field Training" exercise (FTX) simulates actual operations "in the field," focusing more on improvement of skills than on the making of command decisions.
Implemented by Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH)
Location Chile
Participating militaries 8 countries

 

Cabañas 2001, August 22 - September 11 2001 4
Exercise type Foreign Military Interaction Field Training Exercise (FMI FTX).

"Foreign Military Interaction" or "multinational" exercises are carried out jointly with other militaries, normally several at a time.

A "Field Training" exercise (FTX) simulates actual operations "in the field," focusing more on improvement of skills than on the making of command decisions.
Implemented by Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH)
Location Argentina
Participating militaries 8 countries

 

Cabañas 2000, September 6-20, 20001
Exercise type Foreign Military Interaction Field Training Exercise (FMI FTX).

"Foreign Military Interaction" or "multinational" exercises are carried out jointly with other militaries, normally several at a time.

A "Field Training" exercise (FTX) simulates actual operations "in the field," focusing more on improvement of skills than on the making of command decisions.
Mission In August and September 2000, the U.S. Southern Command simulated a United Nations-style peacekeeping operation. Each of eight participating countries sent a platoon to train in the thirty-three peacekeeping tasks listed below.
Implemented by Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH) and Argentina's 4th Airborne Brigade (based in Córdoba, Argentina)
Location Córdoba, Argentina
Participating militaries U.S., Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay

 

Cabanas 98, July 26-August 21, 19982
Exercise type Foreign Military Interaction Field Training Exercise (FMI FTX).

"Foreign Military Interaction" or "multinational" exercises are carried out jointly with other militaries, normally several at a time.

A "Field Training" exercise (FTX) simulates actual operations "in the field," focusing more on improvement of skills than on the making of command decisions.
Mission In July and August 1998, the U.S. Southern Command simulated a United Nations-style peacekeeping operation, "in order to enhance regional cooperation and trust, reinforce staff functions and procedures in peacekeeping operations, and focus on interoperability for the coalition battalion staff."

The exercise sought to reinforce the U.S. participants' abilities to carry out the following "mission essential tasks":

  • Collect information on strategic situation, geography, medical risks, climate, and significant hazards
  • Provide strategic direction to theater forces
  • Provide security for theater forces and means
  • Foster alliance and regional relations and security arrangements
  • Coordinate disaster relief
  • Coordinate interagency activities
  • Support peacekeeping
  • Conduct peace enforcement
Implemented by Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH)
Location Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico
Participating militaries U.S., Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

A Southcom document provides the following list of "UN peacekeeping operations tasks" exercised at Cabanas '98.3

  1. Movement techniques
  2. React to sniper
  3. Withdraw under hostile pressure
  4. Locate, recognize and mark mines
  5. Report mines and obstacles
  6. Select and mark a rotary wing landing zone
  7. Report casualties
  8. Occupy an observation post and conduct surveillance
  9. Report information
  10. Occupy and operate a checkpoint
  11. Search a vehicle
  12. Search a building
  13. Identify personnel
  14. Identify evidence of contraband
  15. Determine if search and seizure is authorized
  16. Establish and supervise a traffic control point
  17. Reconnoiter a route
  1. Perform route clearance
  2. Plan and conduct a patrol (night / ldr task)
  3. Day security patrol (vignette)
  4. Night security patrol (company vignette)
  5. Patrol report
  6. Coordinate and monitor security of critical facilities
  7. Coordinate and monitor security of designated personnel
  8. React to a terrorist or insurgent incident
  9. Prepare vehicles for movement
  10. Link up with a convoy
  11. Escort a convoy / deliver supplies and humanitarian aid
  12. React to media
  13. Establish a distribution site
  14. Secure a distribution site
  15. Conduct dislocated civilian control operations
  16. Conduct liaison with local authorities (ldr task)

Sources:

1 United States, Department of Defense, U.S. Southern Command, "Cabanas 2000," Slideshow document, March 7, 2000.

2 United States, Department of Defense, U.S. Southern Command, "Cabanas 98," Slideshow document, April 8, 1998.

3 U.S. Southern Command, "Cabanas 98."

4United States, Department of Defense, U.S. Southern Command, "Cabanas 2001," Slideshow document, July 2002.

5United States, Department of Defense, U.S. Southern Command, "Cabanas 2002," Slideshow document, July 2002.

 

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