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  • Medics provide human touch

    Viviana Vigil woke her children early and dressed them. Then they ate a meager breakfast of tortillas and beans. It is all they had.As the sun broke over the mountainside village of La Luna where the family lives, she gathered her children and led them down a trail toward the bigger village of

  • Volunteers provide search and rescue for Central America

    Search and rescue operations at this Central American base are not ordinary.Instead of the typical Air Force pararescuemen enveloped in heavy gear, the SAR team here is Army run. It encompasses people from all services, an assortment of career fields and numerous volunteers.“It’s an additional

  • Airmen keep Soto Cano’s runway running

    Staff Sgt. Michelle Cox said she hates it when a plan falls apart because when that happens, it can easily end a vital mission. And at this small base in the heart of Central America, all missions are important.Missions can fail because people lack training. Sergeant Cox said that bothers her

  • Soto Cano getting permanent makeover

    After decades of living in wooden structures called “hooches,” troops at this small “temporary” base soon will get new homes as part of a military construction project.The new buildings will replace the base’s 270 hooches with 44 four-unit apartment buildings and seven two-story, 72-occupant

  • For U.S. troops, Tegucigalpa’s good life has its dangers

    American servicemembers visiting this capital city from nearby Soto Cano Air Base come to rest, relax and get a taste of the good life.On weekends, they succumb to the pampered lifestyle lavished on them at hotels, restaurants, discotheques, tourist sites and shopping areas. It’s a life many don’t

  • Reservists set example at New Horizons 2005 camp

    In a camp tucked away in southwest Panama, two Airmen are leaving a lasting impression on their fellow servicemembers and the local people they meet. Master Sgt. Steve Axie and Tech. Sgt. George Lyon have grown to call it home, but three months ago, the two arrived to build a base camp on a horse

  • Airman engineers Seabees’ construction in Panama

    Capt. Star Longo has reason to smile.After three months of hard work, he and his team of engineers finished building a much-needed community center in this tiny isolated town in southwestern Panama.With his mission done, he can return home and do some surfing again. But the real reason he is