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"After months of preparation, Joint Task Force Jaguar arrived in El Salvador along with more than 75 other service members to finalize plans for the comprehensive joint exercise, Beyond the Horizon El Salvador 2013.The effort of operations right now is ensuring the task force is prepared to meet mission requirements onceunits begin arriving.\u201COur primary focus right now is preparing our life support system and getting our operations set-up so when rotational units begin arriving we can hit the ground running,\u201D said Lt. Col. Raymond Valas, Joint Task Force Jaguar commander. \u201CThere are folks working all day and night to get this place operational. We have moved nearly 100 pieces of cargo from the port to DM6 (Military Detachment 6) over the past week, which is no small feat.\u201DDoing all that is a difficult process that requires a great deal of coordination by operations personnel.\u201CThe operations staff is occupied ensuring containers and personnel are coordinated successfully,\u201D said Sgt. 1st Class Robert Szczepkowski, operations non-commissioned officer for the task force. \u201CRight now, personnel safety and successful transfer of containers are of the highest priority.\u201DBeyond the Horizon is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored, U.S. Army South-planned and led annual humanitarian and civic assistance exercise. The exercise provides construction and medical assistance to partner nations throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean. The exercise generally takes place in rural, underprivileged areas and is a major component of the U.S. military's regional engagement efforts and it affords a unique opportunity to train U.S. service members alongside partner nation personnel, while providing needed services to communities throughout the region."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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