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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.
Salvadoran Army Navy of El Salvador Salvadoran Air Force: Headquarters: Km 5 1/2 Carretera a Santa Tecla, San Salvador, El Salvador: Leadership; Commander-in-Chief: President Nayib Bukele: Minister of National Defense: René Francis Merino Monroy: Chief of Joint Chiefs of Staff: Carlos Alberto Tejada Murcía: Personnel; Military age: 16 ...
On 23 October 1984, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) bombed a Bell UH-1H of the Salvadoran Air Force in Joateca, El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War. The bombing killed all 14 occupants on board the helicopter, including Salvadoran lieutenant colonel Domingo Monterrosa who commanded the American-trained Atlácatl ...
In the early 1990s, the Truth Commission for El Salvador was established by the United Nations to investigate war crimes committed during the civil war. [8] The report concluded that the battalion was responsible for the El Mozote massacre, the El Calabozo massacre, and the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests.
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 popemobile used by Pope John Paul II during his 1996 visit to El Salvador [1] and a 1:25000-scale relief map of El Salvador are also on display at the museum. The Memorial Plaza of National Sovereignty and the Commemorative Monument of the Salvadoran Leaders of Central American Independence are located at the military museum. [4]
The U.S. arrested Salvadoran retired military officer Roberto Antonio Garay Saravia, for his alleged involvement in El Salvador's El Mozote massacre.
The Nationalist Democratic Organization (Spanish: Organización Democrática Nacionalista, abbreviated ORDEN) was a Salvadoran paramilitary organization founded under the military rule of Julio Adalberto Rivera, headed by José Alberto Medrano.