Bases and other overseas military presence
Includes Forward Operating Locations in Aruba/Curaçao, Ecuador, and El Salvador, radar sites, and bases in Cuba, Honduras, and Puerto Rico

Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (National Defense University, Fort McNair, DC)
Defense Department initiative to improve civilians' defense planning and management skills

Counter-Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP) A Defense Department training program funding training and education in counter-terror skills

Deployments for Training (DFTs)

Exercises (Tentative exercise calendar)
Regularly programmed joint training events throughout the region

Foreign Military Interaction (FMI)
Also known as "Military-to-Military Contact"

Humanitarian Assistance
U.S. military programs whose primary purpose is to offer assistance to local populations; includes excess property transfers

Humanitarian and Civic Assistance (HCA)
Also known as "civic action," exercises that provide construction or medical services

Inter-American Air Forces Academy (Lackland AFB, TX)
The U.S. Air Force''s Spanish-language training school for Latin American militaries

Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) and other Special Operations Forces (SOF) Training
Special Forces' deployments for joint training. This section also includes SOF counter-drug training

Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (Camp LeJeune, NC, and Stennis Space Center, MS)
The U.S. Navy's Spanish-language training school for Latin American militaries

"Section 1004" and "Section 124" Counterdrug Assistance
Training, equipment upgrades and other services provided for counternarcotics, funded through the defense budget

"Section 1033" Counterdrug Assistance to Colombia (and Peru until 2002)
Assistance to fight drugs on rivers, funded through the defense budget

Service academies (U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY; U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO)

Spanish Helicopter School Battalion (U.S. Army Aviation Center, Fort Rucker, AL)

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (Ex-School of the Americas) (Fort Benning, GA)
The U.S. Army's Spanish-language training school for Latin American militaries