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last updated:1/6/06
U.S. Security Assistance to the Western Hemisphere: By Program

 

Arms Transfers Training
Deployments and Exercises Schools
Counternarcotics Police Aid
Social and Economic Programs Humanitarian Programs
Aid Approved in Annual Foreign Aid Budget Legislation Aid Approved in Annual Defense Budget Legislation

All programs:

 

Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA)
Weapons, equipment and training for prevention and management of terrorism

 
 

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)

 
 

Direct Commercial Sales (DCS)
Sales from U.S. companies licensed by the U.S. government

 
 

Drawdowns
Presidential authority to grant defense articles, training and services from the U.S. arsenal

 
 

Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC)
A policy initiative, using funds from other programs, to improve militaries' peacekeeping skills
 

 
 

Excess Defense Articles (EDA)
Transfers of used weapons and equipment from U.S. stocks

 
 

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

 
 

Foreign Military Financing (FMF)
Grants and loans for defense articles, training and services

 
 

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

 
 

Foreign Military Sales (FMS)
Government-to-government sales of defense articles, training and services

 
 

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

 
 

International Criminal Investigations and Training Program (ICITAP)
Law-enforcement training provided by the Department of Justice

 
 

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.

 
 

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)

 
 

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

 
 

Leases
Defense articles leased by the U.S. government

 
 

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

 

 

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