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Chairman Visits Amazon Military Command in Brazil

03/28/2012 09:44 PM CDT

Chairman Visits Amazon Military Command in Brazil By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service MANAUS, Brazil, March 28, 2012 - When arriving here, jets fly for three hours over the Amazon rain forest. This city is smack in the center of Amazonia, and it is a different world. The Amazon is Brazil's treasure, and its riches are precious and must be protected. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Brazil's Amazon Military Command headquarters here today to get an idea of the range, capabilities and challenges facing the armed forces' effort in this remote land. Gen. Eduardo Villas Boas of the Brazilian army hosted Dempsey for the short visit and discussed the full range of his command. Boas commands the largest of seven military districts in Brazil. "His is by far the largest, and the area where we have the most common interests," Dempsey said. Transnational organized crime is a problem. Drug traffickers, smugglers, financiers and the whole range of criminal networks operate in the region. Brazil is now the world's second largest consumer of cocaine in the world, after the United States. Managing the borders with neighboring countries is another common interest, Dempsey said. And protecting critical infrastructures – from dams and bridges to natural resources – is another common interest. "These are things where there is common ground for us to build a relationship," the chairman said. Building the military-to-military relationship is important, the general said. One way of doing that, he noted, is training together. The command hosts a world-class jungle training center. In its 48-year history, only 25 Americans have graduated from the course, said Maj. Gen. Jose Luiz Jaborandy, chief of staff for the Amazon Military Command. Dempsey toured the facility where small classes of officers and noncommissioned officers receive 12 weeks of training in survival, weapons and tactics for use in the jungle. In the Brazilian army, those leaders go back to their units to teach their soldiers. France has the most foreign graduates with 86, said Jaborandy, who was graduate number 1,261 in 1984. Dempsey said he was impressed. As part of his emphasis on the profession of arms, he added, he wants American officers and NCOs to take advantage of these types of training opportunities. "Introducing leaders into unfamiliar environments is always a good thing," the chairman said. "And the jungle is certainly that." Dempsey said he believes the training would increase the cooperation between the two militaries. Past chairmen who have visited the area also wanted to increase U.S. participation in the Jungle School. "I do think that I would be supportive of increasing our participation in jungle training with the Brazilians," Dempsey said. "That said, we have several layers of the relationship to work on. That tactical level is something we haven't lost. We just haven't had the time." The reason more Americans haven't been through the training is because of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We've been pretty busy," Dempsey said. The chairman moves from the tactical and operational level to the strategic level tomorrow. He is scheduled to meet with Brazilian Defense Minister Antonio Celoso Amorim and Brazilian Chief of Defense Gen. Jose Carlos de Nardi.

Biographies: Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey Related Sites: Special Report: Travels With Dempsey  State Department Background Note on Brazil

USS Elrod Visits Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Story Number: NNS120328-13 Release Date: 3/28/2012 8:40:00 PM 0 Comments   Font Size: A A A 0 0 By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (SW/AW) Justin Ailes Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Public Affairs GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (NNS) -- USS Elrod (FFG 55), currently supporting Joint Interagency Task Force South (JITF) counter-narcotics operations in the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility, visited Naval Station (NS) Guantanamo Bay, March 27-30. Elrod, an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was in port for fuel, water and re-supply services. The crew was also provided opportunities to enjoy Morale, Welfare and Recreation activities and shop at the Navy Exchange. "Elrod is deployed to the Fourth Fleet area in support of Operation Martillo, a joint and inter-agency effort to stem the flow of drugs through the littorals of the Caribbean," said Elrod Commanding Officer, Cmdr. John Callaway. "Visiting Guantanamo Bay is a great opportunity for crew rest and logistics in a port with superb Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) facilities. We appreciate the hospitality and tremendous support available here." Operation Martillo (Spanish for 'hammer') is a U.S., European, and Western Hemisphere partner nation effort targeting illicit trafficking routes in coastal waters along the Central American isthmus. U.S. military participation is being led by JIATF South, a component of SOUTHCOM. Operation Martillo is a component of the U.S. government's coordinated interagency regional security strategy in support of the White House strategy to combat transnational organized crime and the U.S. Central America Regional Security Initiative. Fourteen countries are participating: Canada, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States. JIATF is a multiservice, multiagency national task force which conducts counter illicit trafficking operations, intelligence fusion and multi-sensor correlation to detect, monitor, and handoff suspected illicit trafficking targets; promotes security cooperation and coordinates country team and partner nation initiatives in order to defeat the flow of illicit traffic.

Dempsey Pleased About U.S.-Pakistani Leaders Meeting

03/28/2012 08:26 PM CDT

Dempsey Pleased About U.S.-Pakistani Leaders Meeting By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT, March 28, 2012 - Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today he is pleased that U.S. and Pakistani military leaders have met to discuss mutual concerns. Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, commander of U.S. Central Command, and Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, met with Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in Islamabad. It was the highest level-military meeting between the United States and Pakistan since a Nov. 26, 2011, incident that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the Afghan border. Following the incident, Pakistan closed the ground supply lines that ran from Karachi up into Afghanistan, forcing coalition forces to rely on a northern supply route. Dempsey told reporters traveling with him from Colombia to Brazil that he has spoken with Kayani at least five times since the border incident. The Pakistanis, he said, want to reset the military-to-military relationship with the United States. "We want to rebuild the trust and confidence between our two militaries," the general said. This includes working the border issues with the Pakistanis and reopening the ground supply lines through Pakistan to Afghanistan, Dempsey said. He added that he believes the two militaries can discuss what must be done in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas to improve the situation in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Groups have taken root in the tribal areas that pose a threat to the national government and to neighboring Afghanistan, the chairman explained. Pakistan has sent troops into the region to take on these groups and to establish the government's control of its sovereign territory. Many officials believe the Pakistani military is doing about as much as it can. Pakistani leaders regard India as a threat, and most of their armed forces are facing India in the east. Until more troops are made available, the situation in the tribal areas probably will remain as it is, and official said, with many areas under government control and others like the Wild West. U.S. defense officials have been quick to point out that Pakistan has lost thousands of service members and thousands of citizens to the scourge of terrorism. "No one doubts the sacrifice or will of the Pakistanis -- just the means they have," one official said.

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