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In 1989, the armed forces of El Salvador had raised 56,000 fighting men with 63 aeroplanes and 72 helicopters. [5]: 11 Between 1983 and 1987, El Salvador's military forces received over 100 million dollars per year from the US. [24] In 1990, at the end of the Cold War, the US restricted funding to the Salvadoran military. The US found its ...
On October 15, 1979, the military government was deposed by a joint military-civilian government calling itself the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador (JRG). The JRG's policies were met with opposition from the military and economic elites and government repression increased, with tens of thousands of civilians being killed in 1980 ...
The Navy of El Salvador (Spanish: Fuerza Naval de El Salvador) is the naval arm of the Armed Forces of El Salvador.The navy was founded on 12 October 1951. [2]Built around craft and duties absorbed from the Salvadoran Coast Guard, the navy is primarily composed of patrol boats tasked with coastal patrol and fishery protection. [3]
The Salvadoran Army Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea de El Salvador, abbreviated FAS) was formed on 20 March 1923 during a period of heavy interest in aviation in El Salvador. In 1947, after signing the treaty of Rio (which was a mutual defense treaty among the states of America including the U.S. ), El Salvador gained a new US air mission and ...
Pages in category "Military of El Salvador" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Airport of the Pacific (Spanish: Aeropuerto del Pacífico) [1] or International Airport of the Pacific (Aeropuerto Internacional del Pacífico) [2] is a planned joint-use civilian international airport and military base that will be located in Conchagua, El Salvador. It will serve the city of La Unión and the planned Bitcoin City.
Military bases and the neighborhoods surrounding them often seem like the ultimate refuge of middle- American values. Run with military efficiency and discipline, the well-trimmed yards, cleanly ...
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de El Salvador San Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez), (IATA: SAL, ICAO: MSLP), previously known as Comalapa International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de Comalapa) and as Comalapa Air Base (Base Aérea de Comalapa) to the military, [3] is a joint-use civilian and military airport ...