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US Military
Uses Mock Floods of Quepos and Parrita In
Training Program
Two C-17 US Air Force military airplanes
landed at the Juan Santamaria (San Jose)
international airport yesterday, not as an
invasion of Costa Rica by the US, but rather
as part of the FA-HUM emergency training
program by the US that began in Costa Rica
last Thursday.
The group of US military are from the United
States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), who
are responsible for all US military
activities in South America and Central
America, encompassing 19 counties.
The big transport airships carried three
helicopters that will be used in the
training exercises that will be going on in
Quepos and Parrita.
The airships also carried a number of
medical professionals that will be providing
support to the training groups that are in
Costa Rica since last week.
The Fuerzas Aliadas Humanitarias (FAHUM) is
an exercise that concentrates on improving
how civilian, government and military
agencies from the United States, the
Caribbean and Central America respond to
natural disasters in the region.
The exercise includes search and rescue
efforts, transfer of the injured and
evacuation efforts.
Vanessa Rosales-Ardón, the newly appointed
president of CNE, explained that there are
two phases of the exercise that will be
conducted in Costa Rica. The first phase is
an emergency simulation of a Pandemic
influenza, to test the CNE’s staff’s
abilities to conduct local and international
emergency response. The second phase is a
field exercise where CNE officials can
evaluate and improve emergency response at
the local, national, and international
levels.
U.S. troops and officials will work with
Costa Rica's Comisión Nacional de
Emergencias (CNE) to enhance the
participants’ knowledge, skills, and
capabilities to work together during a
natural or man-made disaster.
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