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A Brazilian competitor hurdles over a bar on the obstacle

A Brazilian competitor hurdles over a bar on the obstacle

A Brazilian competitor hurdles over a bar on the obstacle course event July 24, 2017, for Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Competing countries share the common goal of setting the necessary conditions... More

A Brazilian comando rushes across a range during a

A Brazilian comando rushes across a range during a

A Brazilian comando rushes across a range during a timed shooting event of Fuerzas Comando on July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. By training with our partner nations in a multinational competition like th... More

A Belizean competitor lines up his rifle with the target

A Belizean competitor lines up his rifle with the target

A Belizean competitor lines up his rifle with the target while a judge observes in the stress shoot event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The event focuses on sharpening competit... More

A Guyanese competitor begins the Critical Task Evaluation

A Guyanese competitor begins the Critical Task Evaluation

A Guyanese competitor begins the Critical Task Evaluation 1 course as part of the 13th annual Fuerzas Comando competition July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. The competition helps the 2... More

Argentine competitors look over the Data Of Previous

Argentine competitors look over the Data Of Previous

Argentine competitors look over the Data Of Previous Exchange (DOPE) during the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017, in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. International competitions like Fue... More

A Brazilian sniper team works together to place a simulated

A Brazilian sniper team works together to place a simulated

A Brazilian sniper team works together to place a simulated casualty on a table during Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Participating nations share a longstanding history of cooperati... More

Dominican competitors work together in the sniper stress

Dominican competitors work together in the sniper stress

Dominican competitors work together in the sniper stress event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a multinational competition that advances training of nations in... More

A Panamanian competitor rounds a bend during a shooting

A Panamanian competitor rounds a bend during a shooting

A Panamanian competitor rounds a bend during a shooting competition of Fuerzas Comando on July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The transnational nature of the 21st century security challenges require stron... More

A sniper for Team Paraguay drags a 150-pound (68 kg.)

A sniper for Team Paraguay drags a 150-pound (68 kg.)

A sniper for Team Paraguay drags a 150-pound (68 kg.) dummy toward his first station during a shooting event of Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando aids... More

A Chilean competitor crawls through an obstacle July

A Chilean competitor crawls through an obstacle July

A Chilean competitor crawls through an obstacle July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Throughout Fuerzas Comando, competitors' physical limits and marksmanship expertise are tested in... More

Jamaican competitors ascend ropes during an obstacle

Jamaican competitors ascend ropes during an obstacle

Jamaican competitors ascend ropes during an obstacle course for Fuerzas Comando on July 24, 2017, in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Nations competing in Fuerzas Comando refine the tactics used by their special operati... More

A Panamanian sniper takes aim at a moving target 185

A Panamanian sniper takes aim at a moving target 185

A Panamanian sniper takes aim at a moving target 185 meters (about 607 feet) away during the final portion of a stress shoot at Fuerzas Comado on July 21, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a mu... More

U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, the commander of U.S.

U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, the commander of U.S.

U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, the commander of U.S. Southern Command, congratulates Colombian competitors July 27, 2017, during the closing ceremony of Fuerzas Comando in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay. Colombia... More

A Brazilian sniper team locks in on a target during

A Brazilian sniper team locks in on a target during

A Brazilian sniper team locks in on a target during Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Tonya Deardorf /Released)

Team Chile shows national pride after competing in

Team Chile shows national pride after competing in

Team Chile shows national pride after competing in a shooting event for Fuerzas Comando on July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Chile’s highly-capable military and law enforcement agencies serve as models o... More

A member of Team Paraguay peers through the scope of

A member of Team Paraguay peers through the scope of

A member of Team Paraguay peers through the scope of his long range rifle before a sniper event for Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando allows Paraguay to partner with su... More

A Salvadoran sniper team setup their equipment during

A Salvadoran sniper team setup their equipment during

A Salvadoran sniper team setup their equipment during the FBI Shoot and Movers event July 19, 2017 as part of Fuerzas Comando at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The two-man team must work together to hit four long-rang... More

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander, U.S.

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander, U.S.

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, meets U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers with 7th Special Forces Group during a Fuerzas Comando team event July 24, 2017, in Vist... More

A Jamaican competitor adjusts the scope on his rifle

A Jamaican competitor adjusts the scope on his rifle

A Jamaican competitor adjusts the scope on his rifle during the FBI Shoot and Movers event July 19, 2017 as part of the Fuerzas Comando competition at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The nations participating in the co... More

Team Belize weaves through an obstacle during a Fuerzas

Team Belize weaves through an obstacle during a Fuerzas

Team Belize weaves through an obstacle during a Fuerzas Comando event July 24, 2017, in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joanna Bradshaw/Released)

A two-man Salvadoran sniper team drags 150-pound litters

A two-man Salvadoran sniper team drags 150-pound litters

A two-man Salvadoran sniper team drags 150-pound litters during the FBI Shoot and Movers event July 19, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The competitors had to drag the litters 100 meters ... More

A Peruvian competitor leaving the FBI shooting event

A Peruvian competitor leaving the FBI shooting event

A Peruvian competitor leaving the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017, in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a multinational special forces competition that works to impr... More

Team Colombia, the returning champions from last year's

Team Colombia, the returning champions from last year's

Team Colombia, the returning champions from last year's Fuerzas Comando, return to camp after completing the second marksmanship event of the competition July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Parag... More

Team Mexico races toward the finish line of the Fuerzas

Team Mexico races toward the finish line of the Fuerzas

Team Mexico races toward the finish line of the Fuerzas Comando obstacle course July 24, 2017, in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Countries participating in Fuerzas Comando have developed a solid working relationship t... More

Team Belize catches a ride from the range after competing

Team Belize catches a ride from the range after competing

Team Belize catches a ride from the range after competing in a timed shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joanna Bradshaw/Released)

Team Mexico celebrate their completion of the first

Team Mexico celebrate their completion of the first

Team Mexico celebrate their completion of the first event of the Fuerzas Comando competition July 17, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Competitors participate in events during the exercise th... More

A Dominican competitor fires his weapon down range

A Dominican competitor fires his weapon down range

A Dominican competitor fires his weapon down range in the Critical Task Evaluation 2 event of the Fuerzas Comando competition July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. The competition increas... More

Team Honduras, the champions of Fuerzas Comando 2017,

Team Honduras, the champions of Fuerzas Comando 2017,

Team Honduras, the champions of Fuerzas Comando 2017, hold their hard earned trophies aloft July 27 during the closing ceremony in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joanna Bradshaw/Released)

A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier details many of

A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier details many of

A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier details many of Fuerzas Comando’s events to U.S. Special Operations Command Commander, Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III (center), and Navy Rear Adm. Collin Green, Commander, Sp... More

Argentine competitors receive two thumbs-up from the

Argentine competitors receive two thumbs-up from the

Argentine competitors receive two thumbs-up from the judges for hitting their prospective target during the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017,in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. The 20 n... More

An Argentine competitor runs to the next set of targets

An Argentine competitor runs to the next set of targets

An Argentine competitor runs to the next set of targets in the stress shoot event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a multinational competition that builds count... More

After competing in a shooting event, members of Team

After competing in a shooting event, members of Team

After competing in a shooting event, members of Team Colombia gather July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joanna Bradshaw/Released)

Members from Team Costa Rica congratulate each other

Members from Team Costa Rica congratulate each other

Members from Team Costa Rica congratulate each other after a 4-mile run during Fuerzas Comando on July 17, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando focuses on bonding team members tog... More

U.S. Special Operations Command Commander, Army Gen.

U.S. Special Operations Command Commander, Army Gen.

U.S. Special Operations Command Commander, Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III (center), receives a Fuerzas Comando overview from the competition’s Paraguayan and U.S. directors July 24, 2017, in Vista Alegre, Para... More

Chilean competitors jump down from an obstacle July

Chilean competitors jump down from an obstacle July

Chilean competitors jump down from an obstacle July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando fosters interoperability between competing countries through friendly competition.... More

A Costa Rican sniper shoots his target during Fuerzas

A Costa Rican sniper shoots his target during Fuerzas

A Costa Rican sniper shoots his target during Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a Foreign Military Interaction competition designed to enhance multinational and regi... More

A judge gives the thumbs-up signaling the Chilean sniper

A judge gives the thumbs-up signaling the Chilean sniper

A judge gives the thumbs-up signaling the Chilean sniper team hit their target during the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017, in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. This competition improves... More

Members of Team Guyana gather together after successfully

Members of Team Guyana gather together after successfully

Members of Team Guyana gather together after successfully competing in a shooting event for the Fuerzas Comando competition July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. This competition increases training knowledg... More

A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier with the 7th Special

A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier with the 7th Special

A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier with the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., competes in a sniper stress shoot event at Fuerzas Comando on July 21, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay... More

An Argentine competitor fires at a moving target during

An Argentine competitor fires at a moving target during

An Argentine competitor fires at a moving target during Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Critical Task Evalution 1 was the first live-fire event in the competition... More

The snipers of Team Uruguay find their targets during

The snipers of Team Uruguay find their targets during

The snipers of Team Uruguay find their targets during a shooting event of the Fuerzas Comando competition July 18, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. U.S. Southern Command considers Uruguay an important partner fo... More

Haitian competitors lift a litter onto a platform during

Haitian competitors lift a litter onto a platform during

Haitian competitors lift a litter onto a platform during the FBI Shoot and Movers event July 19, 2017 as part of Fuerzas Comando at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The competition helps competitors sharpen tactical ski... More

A competitor from Team Guatemala races toward his first

A competitor from Team Guatemala races toward his first

A competitor from Team Guatemala races toward his first target during a shooting event July 20, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando helps Guatemalan forces share and contribu... More

A Panamanian special forces team member drags a 150-pound

A Panamanian special forces team member drags a 150-pound

A Panamanian special forces team member drags a 150-pound litter for 200 meters (656 feet) as part of a sniper stress shoot during Fuerzas Comando July 21, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The sniper stress shoo... More

U.S. Special Forces soldiers receive the third-place

U.S. Special Forces soldiers receive the third-place

U.S. Special Forces soldiers receive the third-place trophy for the Fuerzas Comando competition July 27, 2017, during the closing ceremony in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joanna Brad... More

A member of the Panamanian sniper team participates

A member of the Panamanian sniper team participates

A member of the Panamanian sniper team participates in a "body drag" July 18, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. This competition is a chance to strengthen partnerships for regional securit... More

Team Paraguay's sniper duo prepare for their first

Team Paraguay's sniper duo prepare for their first

Team Paraguay's sniper duo prepare for their first shot during a long-distance shooting event of Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando builds international enduring partner... More

A member from Team Paraguay competes in the Fuerzas

A member from Team Paraguay competes in the Fuerzas

A member from Team Paraguay competes in the Fuerzas Comando on July 17, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. The goal of the exercise is to create a partnership between all 20 competing countries... More

A competitor from Team Guatemala fights for a better

A competitor from Team Guatemala fights for a better

A competitor from Team Guatemala fights for a better score as time winds down in a timed sit-up event on July 17, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. The event is part of Fuerzas Comando, a comp... More

Argentine competitors look over the Data Of Previous

Argentine competitors look over the Data Of Previous

Argentine competitors look over the Data Of Previous Exchange (DOPE) during the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017, in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. This competition, and this event sp... More

Team Jamaica scales one of the last obstacles of a

Team Jamaica scales one of the last obstacles of a

Team Jamaica scales one of the last obstacles of a course for Fuerzas Comando on July, 24 2017, in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joanna Bradshaw/Released)

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander of

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander of

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, observes U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers navigate an obstacle during Fuerzas Comando held in Vista Alegre, Paraguay, July, 2... More

A Peruvian Fuerzas Comando competitor sprints with

A Peruvian Fuerzas Comando competitor sprints with

A Peruvian Fuerzas Comando competitor sprints with a judge to begin a timed shooting event July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Peru successfully hosted the 2016 Fuerzas Comando competition and brought toge... More

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander, U.S.

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander, U.S.

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, meets with Brazilian special operations competitors during Fuerzas Comando’s obstacle course event held in Vista Alegre, Paragua... More

A Panamanian sniper contemplates his target during

A Panamanian sniper contemplates his target during

A Panamanian sniper contemplates his target during Fuerzas Comando's sniper competion July, 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a Foreign Military Interaction competition designed to enhance ... More

Team El Salvador prepare for the stress shoot event

Team El Salvador prepare for the stress shoot event

Team El Salvador prepare for the stress shoot event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is an 11-day competition that requires team cohesion and promotes multinationa... More

A Panamanian sniper prepares for his next target during

A Panamanian sniper prepares for his next target during

A Panamanian sniper prepares for his next target during Fuerzas Comando's sniper competition July 18, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a Foreign Military Interaction competition designed to en... More

An Argentine competitor reflects on his performance

An Argentine competitor reflects on his performance

An Argentine competitor reflects on his performance in the stress shoot event after receiving his score from the judges July 21, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The event is part of Fuerzas Comando, which has 2... More

A Panamian competitor dashes toward his targets on

A Panamian competitor dashes toward his targets on

A Panamian competitor dashes toward his targets on a shooting range during Fuerzas Comando on July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joanna Bradshaw/Released)

A Haitian competitor grimaces after sprinting through

A Haitian competitor grimaces after sprinting through

A Haitian competitor grimaces after sprinting through the finish line of the grueling obstacle course July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Team Haiti competes alongside 19 other nati... More

A Costa Rican competitor as seen after completing the

A Costa Rican competitor as seen after completing the

A Costa Rican competitor as seen after completing the grueling Special Forces-style obstacle course July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The event tested competitors' physical and me... More

A Dominican competitor relies on his team member's

A Dominican competitor relies on his team member's

A Dominican competitor relies on his team member's expertise while aiming for his target during the sniper stress event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando strengthe... More

Team Costa Rica vaults over a ladder during the obstacle

Team Costa Rica vaults over a ladder during the obstacle

Team Costa Rica vaults over a ladder during the obstacle course July 24, 2017, for Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is one of several multinational exercises, hosted this year by Parag... More

A Jamaican competitor watches his teammate walk to

A Jamaican competitor watches his teammate walk to

A Jamaican competitor watches his teammate walk to the starting line of the stress shoot event July 21, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The event is part of Fuerzas Comando, a competition in which 20 nations co... More

Precision shooters from Team Paraguay confer with each

Precision shooters from Team Paraguay confer with each

Precision shooters from Team Paraguay confer with each other on a sniper course as part of the Fuerzas Comando competition July 18, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is an opportunity for sniper t... More

U.S. Special Forces soldiers shake hands with U.S.

U.S. Special Forces soldiers shake hands with U.S.

U.S. Special Forces soldiers shake hands with U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, the commander of U.S. Southern Command, July 27, 2017, after the closing ceremony of Fuerzas Comando in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay.... More

A Costa Rican sniper shoots his target during Fuerzas

A Costa Rican sniper shoots his target during Fuerzas

A Costa Rican sniper shoots his target during Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a Foreign Military Interaction competition designed to enhance multinational and regi... More

Team Guyana huddles in preparation for the obstacle

Team Guyana huddles in preparation for the obstacle

Team Guyana huddles in preparation for the obstacle course July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando strengthens interoperability and training skills for competing countri... More

A Dominican competitor drags a litter during a timed

A Dominican competitor drags a litter during a timed

A Dominican competitor drags a litter during a timed sniper stress event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a multinational competition that aims to improve train... More

Team Brazil readies to begin the obstacle course July

Team Brazil readies to begin the obstacle course July

Team Brazil readies to begin the obstacle course July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The 11-day Fuerzas Comando competition brings 20 countries together to battle for a first place ... More

A Panamanian sniper team exchanges ammunition during

A Panamanian sniper team exchanges ammunition during

A Panamanian sniper team exchanges ammunition during Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a competition that fosters teamwork between friendly nations because shared c... More

A Peruvian competitor walks toward his teammates after

A Peruvian competitor walks toward his teammates after

A Peruvian competitor walks toward his teammates after completing the Critical Task Evaluation 1 event on the second day of Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Team P... More

A Brazilian competitor climbs up a dirt mound during

A Brazilian competitor climbs up a dirt mound during

A Brazilian competitor climbs up a dirt mound during the obstacle course July 24, 2017, as part of Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The event tests special operations competitors individually but also... More

Dominican competitors accept praise from judges after

Dominican competitors accept praise from judges after

Dominican competitors accept praise from judges after the sniper stress event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando helps to improve training and interoperability betwe... More

U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers with the 7th Special

U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers with the 7th Special

U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers with the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., aim at a target 2,355 feet away during a sniper stress shoot event at Fuerzas Comando on July 21, 2017... More

A Chilean competitor crawls under wires during the

A Chilean competitor crawls under wires during the

A Chilean competitor crawls under wires during the obstacle course event July 24, 2017, for Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Commando is a unique opportunity for participating nations of the A... More

Team El Salvador chants to psych themselves up for

Team El Salvador chants to psych themselves up for

Team El Salvador chants to psych themselves up for a physical fitness competition July 17, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. The competition is the first event in the 13th iteration of Fuerzas Coma... More

Paraguayan competitors cross a set of monkey bars during

Paraguayan competitors cross a set of monkey bars during

Paraguayan competitors cross a set of monkey bars during the obstacle course event of Fuerzas Comando on July 24, 2017, in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a competition that fosters friendships and d... More

Team Panama prays after a special forces-style fitness

Team Panama prays after a special forces-style fitness

Team Panama prays after a special forces-style fitness test during Fuerzas Comando on July 17, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Twenty teams are comprised of six to seven members who compete ... More

The Peruvian sniper team competes in the FBI shooting

The Peruvian sniper team competes in the FBI shooting

The Peruvian sniper team competes in the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017, in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. A judge uses a scope behind them to inspect if their shot is a hit or miss... More

A Guyanese competitor lines up the sight on his M16

A Guyanese competitor lines up the sight on his M16

A Guyanese competitor lines up the sight on his M16 rifle to hit the last target before he can advance in the Critical Task Evaluation 1 course during the Fuerzas Comando competition July 18, 2017 at Vista Aleg... More

Honduran competitors lift a 150-pound litter during

Honduran competitors lift a 150-pound litter during

Honduran competitors lift a 150-pound litter during the FBI Shoot and Movers event July 19, 2017 as part of Fuerzas Comando at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando aims to continue developing partnerships be... More

Salvadoran competitors slide under an obstacle July

Salvadoran competitors slide under an obstacle July

Salvadoran competitors slide under an obstacle July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The competition is designed to enhance interopability, security and capabilities of regional Speci... More

A judge gives the thumbs-up signaling the Chilean sniper

A judge gives the thumbs-up signaling the Chilean sniper

A judge gives the thumbs-up signaling the Chilean sniper team hit their target during the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017, in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt.... More

A Honduran judge congratulates a Honduran competitor

A Honduran judge congratulates a Honduran competitor

A Honduran judge congratulates a Honduran competitor who performed well in the stress shoot event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Competitors from each country's assault team mus... More

A Brazilian sniper team accomplishes a "body drag"

A Brazilian sniper team accomplishes a "body drag"

A Brazilian sniper team accomplishes a "body drag" during Fuerzas Comando's sniper competion July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a Foreign Military Interaction competition designed to en... More

A Guatemalan competitor reflects on his performance

A Guatemalan competitor reflects on his performance

A Guatemalan competitor reflects on his performance of Critical Task Evaluation 1 during Fuerzas Comando on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre in Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando fosters security and stab... More

Team Colombia gears up for the fifth day of competition

Team Colombia gears up for the fifth day of competition

Team Colombia gears up for the fifth day of competition July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Team Colombia is the returning champion and leads 19 other competing countries at the star... More

A member of the Mexican sniper team shoots at his target

A member of the Mexican sniper team shoots at his target

A member of the Mexican sniper team shoots at his target during Fuerzas Comando 2017 on July 18, 2017 at Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Events like sniper competitions showcase partnerships for regional security. (U.... More

A Colombian competitor readies his weapon before the

A Colombian competitor readies his weapon before the

A Colombian competitor readies his weapon before the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017, in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is a multinational competition that improves t... More

An Argentine comando motivates a teammate in the stress

An Argentine comando motivates a teammate in the stress

An Argentine comando motivates a teammate in the stress shoot event July 21, 2017 during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The multinational competition helps promote partnerships between American and ... More

A Brazilian special forces comando aims at a moving

A Brazilian special forces comando aims at a moving

A Brazilian special forces comando aims at a moving 185 meter (about 607 feet) target during the final stage of a sniper stress shoot at Fuerzas Comando on July 21, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Brazil is one... More

Team El Salvador scales a cargo net as part of the

Team El Salvador scales a cargo net as part of the

Team El Salvador scales a cargo net as part of the obstacle course July 24, 2017, for Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando harnesses the collective ability of the competing nations to mee... More

Team Peru competitors catch a ride from the shooting

Team Peru competitors catch a ride from the shooting

Team Peru competitors catch a ride from the shooting ranges for some much needed rest and relaxation July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando fosters regional relations and cooperation against c... More

A Brazilian sniper team performs a "body drag" during

A Brazilian sniper team performs a "body drag" during

A Brazilian sniper team performs a "body drag" during Fuerzas Comando's sniper competion July 18, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Fuerzas Comando is about partnerships and sharing. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Tony... More

A Chilean competitor uses his Data Of Previous Exchange

A Chilean competitor uses his Data Of Previous Exchange

A Chilean competitor uses his Data Of Previous Exchange (DOPE) during the FBI shooting event of Fuerzas Comando July 19, 2017, in Vista Alegre in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. The 20 nations competing in Fuerzas Coma... More

A Belizean competitor lies for a steady shot at a range

A Belizean competitor lies for a steady shot at a range

A Belizean competitor lies for a steady shot at a range for Fuerzas Comando July 20, 2017 in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The Belizean Defense Force works to promote interoperability during the Fuerzas Comando compe... More

A Guyanese comando crawls beneath wires during a Fuerzas

A Guyanese comando crawls beneath wires during a Fuerzas

A Guyanese comando crawls beneath wires during a Fuerzas Comando obstacle course July 24, 2017, in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. This competition increases training knowledge and furthers interoperability between cou... More

Dominican commandos mentally prepare for the rigorous

Dominican commandos mentally prepare for the rigorous

Dominican commandos mentally prepare for the rigorous obstacle course July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. Twenty elite teams are sent from countries in the Western Hemisphere to com... More

A Dominican competitor cools himself after finishing

A Dominican competitor cools himself after finishing

A Dominican competitor cools himself after finishing an exhausting obstacle course July 24, 2017, during Fuerzas Comando in Vista Alegre, Paraguay. The event requires individual strength and stamina from compet... More

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