Vice President visits Service Members in Honduras
Navy News Service
Story Number: NNS120310-04
3/10/2012
From U.S. 4th Fleet Public Affairs
SOTO CANO, Honduras (NNS) -- Vice President Joe Biden visited with forward deployed U.S. service members located at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras March 6.
The vice president was in the region meeting with the presidents of Central American countries to discuss the upcoming "Summit of the Americas", as well as the continued war on drugs.
"We understand the grave threats of narcotics trafficking and the gang violence, and the threat it poses to the people of Honduras [and] ... to the entire region, as well as to my country," said Biden.
Service members assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo greeted the vice president before he departed on Air Force Two to conclude his two day visit to Mexico and Central America.
"It was a great moment in my life," said Petty Officer 2nd Class Josh McClelland, Patrol Squadron (VP) 1. "We exchanged coins and talked for a short while."
VP-1, under operational control of U.S. 4th Fleet (C4F), is currently deployed to the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility in support of Countering Transnational Organized Crime (C-TOC).
U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command (COMUSNAVSO) and C4F supports USSOUTHCOM joint and combined full-spectrum military operations by providing principally sea-based, forward presence to ensure freedom of maneuver in the maritime domain, to foster and sustain cooperative relationships with international partners and to fully exploit the sea as maneuver space in order to enhance regional security and promote peace, stability, and prosperity in the Caribbean, Central and South American regions.
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