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Special Operations Forces (SOF): Brazil

19991:

Type of Deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
JCET 10-Jun-99/ 20-Jun-99 Advanced Special Forces skills, Air operations (SBZ99029W/SF-9363) ODA 736 3/7 SFG(A) 12 12 from Brazilian Army Special Forces Battalion $96,000

19982:

Type of Deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
De-mining 01-Apr-98 / 30-Apr-98 Humanitarian Demining: Teach demining techniques to military from El Salvador, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil; Danlí, Honduras 7th Special Forces Group, Ft. Bragg, NC Unknown 4 from Brazil military, 4 from Colombia military, 4 from El Salvador military, 4 from Venezuela military $80,000

19973:

Type of Deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
JCET 8-Jul-97 / 8-Aug-97 Light Infantry Training (SF7469) 7th Special Forces Group 22 40 Air Force and Army $14,000

Sources:

1 United States, Defense Department, "Report on Training of Special Operations Forces for the Period Ending September 30, 1999," Washington, April 1, 2000.

United States, Department of Defense, Department of State, Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest in Fiscal Years 1999 and 2000: A Report to Congress (Washington: March 2000) <http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/fmtrain/toc.html>.

2 United States, Defense Department, State Department, "Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest In Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999: A Report To Congress," Washington, March 1999: 1, 4.

3 United States, Defense Department, "Report on Training of Special Operations Forces for the Period Ending September 30, 1997," Washington, April 1, 1998.

Special Operations Forces (SOF): Brazil

 

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