Sailors assigned to the guided-missile frigate USS Thach (FFG 43) reached out to the local community in Balboa, Panama for a community relations (COMREL) project March 14.
Maj. Gen. Frederick S. Rudesheim, Commander, Army South (ARSOUTH) visited Rear Adm. Sinclair Harris, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/Commander, U.S. 4th Fleet (COMUSNAVSO) at 4th Fleet Headquarters, March 26.
Southern Partnership Station 2013, a 4th Fleet initiative designed to strengthen civil and maritime capabilities with regional partner nations in the Caribbean and Central and South America, ended three weeks of joint training and partnership building here April 1.
The John Hopkins (JH) Go Team, along with Sailors from Naval Aviation Survival Skill Center Jacksonville, Navy Environment Preventive Medicine Unit two in Norfolk, Va., with coordination from U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, participated in a Subject Matter Expert Exchange in Costa Rica.
High speed vessel USNS Swift (HSV-2) completed testing of the TIF-25K Aerostat (unmanned blimp) and a Puma unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and departed Key West for Operation Martillio, a Countering Transnational Organized Crime (C-TOC) mission in the U.S. 4th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR) May 1.