Programs > SOF > Guatemala
last updated:9/2/03
Special Operations Forces (SOF): Guatemala

19991:

Type of Deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
Counter-drug   CDTS     40 $70,100

19982:

Type of Deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
De-mining 01-Sep-98 / 30-Sep-98 Humanitarian Demining: Teach demining techniques to host-nation military and civilian personnel; Guatemala City 1st Psychological Operations Battalion, Ft. Bragg, NC; and 7th Special Forces Group, Ft. Bragg, NC Unknown 90 from military engineer unit (60) and voluntary fire department civilians (30) $65,000

19973:

Type of Deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
JCET 1-Aug-97 / 25-Aug-97 Medical Humanitarian Civil Assistance (SF7441) 7th Special Forces Group 14 30 Army $39,000
JCET 5-Aug-97 / 26-Aug-97 Joint Combined Exchange Training (Guatemala 7441) Naval Special Warfare Unit 8 1 0 $9,000

Sources:

1 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: 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): Guatemala

 

Google
Search WWW Search ciponline.org


Home
Countries
Programs
News and Analysis
Law
Bases and Military Facilities
Links

A project of the Latin America Working Group Education Fund in cooperation with the Center for International Policy and the Washington Office on Latin America

 Project Staff  Adam Isacson (Senior Associate CIP isacson@ciponline.org)    Lisa Haugaard (LAWGEF Executive Director lisah@lawg.org
  Joy Olson (WOLA Executive Director jolson@WOLA.org)


www.ciponline.org/facts

back to top