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An unidentified Salvadoran special forces Soldier keeps a close eye on the borders of Camp Charlie in Al Hillah, Iraq, April 14, 2005. The Cuscatlan Battalion IV Soldier is helping support Operation Iraqi Freedom, which is being conducted mainly by Coalition Forces in Hillah.
[5]: 11 Between 1983 and 1987, El Salvador's military forces received over 100 million dollars per year from the US. [24] In 1990, at the end of the Cold War, the US restricted funding to the Salvadoran military. The US found its rigorous measures against left wing groups were no longer needed.
Soldier of the CEAT tells US Army soldier to go ahead for room clearing. The Comando Especial Anti-Terrorista (Special Counter-Terrorism Command, CEAT) is a special forces unit and executive branch security of El Salvador, created on July 6, 1985 during the El Salvadoran civil war, and trained by United States Special Operations Forces.
The Salvadoran Civil War began on 15 October 1979 with the overthrow of President Carlos Humberto Romero. [1] The military established the Revolutionary Government Junta to govern the country in the wake of the coup and it established itself to be a "reformist" junta.
Military history of El Salvador (3 C, 9 P) P. Salvadoran military personnel (1 C, 54 P) S. Ships transferred from the United States Coast Guard to the Navy of El ...
The U.S. arrested Salvadoran retired military officer Roberto Antonio Garay Saravia, for his alleged involvement in El Salvador's El Mozote massacre.
The Salvadoran Army stated that there was not an ambush or a massacre, but instead, the journalists were caught in crossfire between the army and the guerrillas. [9] José Napoleón Duarte , the president of the JRG, visited the site and stated on 25 March, "it was not a premeditated act, in my opinion, it was an accident".
The Military Museum of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (Spanish: Museo Militar de la Fuerza Armada de El Salvador) is located in San Salvador, El Salvador. The museum is housed inside the former El Zapote barracks (cuartel El Zapote) of the Salvadoran Army. The museum is owned by the Ministry of National Defense.