Just the Facts

1999¹:

Type of deployment	Dates	Training Event	U.S. SOF Unit	U.S. Personnel	Host-nation personnel	Cost
JCET	30-Nov-98/ 19-Dec-98	Boat & engine repair - 110 Hrs (SW-9126)	SBU-22 "C"	6	7 from Belize Defense Force Maritime Wing	$24,000 or $25,000
JCET	07-Jun-99/ 28-Jun-99	NSWTT Instruction, Enhance organic mission skills, Cultural immersion (SBH99039N/SW-9377)	SBR-2	31	18 from Belize Defense Force Maritime Wing	$132,000
JCET	26-Jul-99/ 15-Aug-99	Light infantry, Small Unit tactics, Leadership, Mission planning (SBH99072W/SF-9475)	ODA 2082 3/20 SFG(A)	12	310 from Belizean Defense Force	$31,000
JCET		Listed as "JCET"			8	Not available
Counter-drug		CDTS (CN 9039)			30	$146,200

1998²:

Type of deployment	Dates	Training Event	U.S. SOF Unit	U.S. Personnel	Host-nation personnel	Cost
Counter-drug	30-Oct-97 / 30-Nov-97	Counter-Narcotics Joint Combined Infantry Training: In support of National Security Strategy to reduce flow of drugs to U.S.; Location: Belmopan, Belize City	3rd SFGA	12	Belize Counternarcotics Police (Dragon Unit); number unknown	$99,300

1997:³

Type of Deployment	Dates	Training Event	U.S. SOF Unit	U.S. Personnel	Host-nation personnel	Cost
JCET	19-Jun-97 / 26-Jul-97	Light Infantry, Deployed Force Training (SF7327/7328/7329)	7th Special Forces Group / 20th Special Forces Group	39	158 Army	$59,000

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.

United States, Defense Department, U.S. Southern Command. "FY 98 CD Funded Deployments." Slideshow document, date unknown, obtained August 1998.

United States, Defense Department, U.S. Southern Command. "FY 98 -- 2697 SOF Personnel." Slideshow document, date unknown, obtained August 1998.

⁴ United States, Defense Department, "Report on Training of Special Operations Forces for the Period Ending September 30, 1997," Washington, April 1, 1998.