MAJOR ENGAGEMENTS
FUERZAS COMANDO
A special operations forces skills competition and senior leader seminar to promote military-to-military relationships, interoperability, and regional security focusing on countering transnational threats in the region.
SOUTHERN STAR
The largest multinational special operations exercise in the western hemisphere and is hosted by the Chilean armed forces focusing on joint, combined, interagency operations to develop interoperable conceopts as part of a Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command.
FUSED RESPONSE
An annual exercise designed to improve time-sensitive crisis action planning and joint integration with partner nation and government agencies.
PANAMAX
A multinational combined/joint task force exercise designed to ensure the free flow of commerce through the Panama Canal -- one of the world's most strategically and economically crucial pieces of infrastructure -- and security and stability in the surrounding region.
PACIFIC Dagger
A collaboration between the Chilean army's special forces and SOCSOUTH, in one of the most extreme environments on the planet: the Magellan and Chilean Antarctic region -- focused on maintaining freedom of navigation through key maritime terrain in the southern cone.