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Anti-Terrorism
Assistance (ATA)
Weapons, equipment and training for prevention and management
of terrorism
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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
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Center
for Hemispheric Defense Studies (National Defense
University, Fort McNair, DC)
Defense Department initiative to improve civilians' defense planning
and management skills
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Counter-Terrorism
Fellowship Program (CTFP)
A Defense Department training program funding training and education
in counter-terror skills
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Deployments
for Training (DFTs)
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Direct
Commercial Sales (DCS)
Sales from U.S. companies licensed by the U.S. government
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Drawdowns
Presidential authority to grant defense articles, training
and services from the U.S. arsenal
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Enhanced
International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC)
A policy initiative, using funds from other programs, to improve
militaries' peacekeeping skills
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Excess
Defense Articles (EDA)
Transfers of used weapons and equipment from U.S. stocks
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Exercises
(Tentative exercise calendar)
Regularly programmed joint training events throughout the region
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Foreign
Military Financing (FMF)
Grants and loans for defense articles, training and services
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Foreign
Military Interaction (FMI)
Also known as "Military-to-Military Contact"
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Foreign
Military Sales (FMS)
Government-to-government sales of defense articles, training and
services
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Humanitarian
Assistance
U.S. military programs whose primary purpose is
to offer assistance to local populations; includes excess property
transfers
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Humanitarian
and Civic Assistance (HCA)
Also known as "civic action," exercises that provide
construction or medical services
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Inter-American
Air Forces Academy (Lackland AFB, TX)
The U.S. Air Force''s Spanish-language training school for Latin
American militaries
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International
Criminal Investigations and Training Program (ICITAP)
Law-enforcement training provided by the Department of
Justice
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International
Military Education and Training (IMET)
Funding for courses given both in the U.S. and in-country by U.S.
personnel. Expanded IMET pays for training
in non-combat subjects.
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International
Narcotics Control (INC)
Funding of equipment, training, eradication and other
programs of the State Department’s Bureau for International Narcotics
and Law Enforcement (INL)
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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
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Leases
Defense articles leased by the U.S. government
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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
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"Section
1004" and "Section 124" Counterdrug Assistance
Training, equipment upgrades and other services provided
for counternarcotics, funded through the defense budget
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"Section
1033" Counterdrug Assistance to Colombia (and Peru until
2002)
Assistance to fight drugs on rivers, funded through the
defense budget
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Service
academies (U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY;
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado
Springs, CO)
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Spanish
Helicopter School Battalion (U.S. Army Aviation Center,
Fort Rucker, AL)
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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
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