First OCONUS mission for 2LT Zecchini

Trip Start Mar 1989
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Trip End Mar 1989


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Where I stayed
Camp Castle
Soto Cano Air Base
(Comayagua hotels)

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

As a newly commissioned Second Lieutenant, I was assigned as Support Platoon Leader of Delta Company, 372nd Engineer Battalion under Task Force 16. My mission was to build a section of road between two remote areas in Honduras enabling the farmers and locals to travel more freely from their homes and farms into town.

Soto Cano Air Base (commonly known as Palmerola Air Base) is a joint Honduras and United States military base near Comayagua in Honduras. A large concentration of US troops and the Honduran military Air Force academy use the airbase. The airbase became operational in 1981. Oliver North once used Palmerola as a base of operations for the U.S. backed Contras in the 1980s. Now the U.S. military uses Soto Cano as a launching point for its war on drugs efforts in Central America as well as humanitarian aid missions throughout Honduras and Central America.

We were there before the formation of the US military's Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-B) which is headquartered at Soto Cano.
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Lorrin E Rodrigues on Nov 26, 2010 at 10:12AM

I was honored to be a medic who served in Palmerola ('84-'85) -I could tell you guys some unbelieveable accounts-there were so many... these photos just BLOW ME AWAY!! You still have the same huts that I lived in in 1984- when I was attatched to the 47th Field Hospital- but I see the actual hospital that I remember is gone... I'll write more later !!!

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