Commander meets NEW HORIZONS personnel and visits sites

U.S. Air Force Col. James Sheedy, 474th Air Expeditionary Group and 612th Theater Operations Group commander, talks with U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Ryan Elliott, 823rd RED HORSE Squadron commander and NEW HORIZONS Honduras 2015 exercise commander, out of Hurlburt Field, Fla., at the Puerto Castillo Naval Base in Trujillo, Honduras, June 10, 2015. Sheedy oversees THE NEW HORIZONS exercise and visited exercise personnel at the Honduras Aguan well, Gabriela Mistral primary school construction site, and Dr. Salvador Paredos Hospital. “Whenever one of these operations comes up to the command and control chain that have to attach it to a unit or build a unit, we have a unit, the 474th Air Expeditionary Group, to I get to be the commander and oversee the command and control,” said Sheedy. Sheedy also visited exercise personnel at the Honduras Aguan well site, Gabriela Mistral primary school construction site, and saw the Dr. Salvador Paredos Hospital. Launched in the 1980’s, NEW HORIZONS is an annual joint humanitarian assistance exercise conducted by U.S. Southern Command with a partner nation in Central America, South America or the Caribbean. The exercise improves joint readiness training of U.S. and partner nation civil engineers, medical professionals and support personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. David J. Murphy/Released)