[6][7] On occasion the division provided disaster relief assistance to Latin American nations using assigned and rotational aircraft and forces.

[1] The division's foreign military sales responsibilities gave it the mission of training recipients on the equipment they purchased.

The division deployed mobile technical training units to Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras.

The Academy provided technical training and education for airmen and officers from approximately fourteen Latin American countries [1] The academy also maintained a center for translating USAF training publications into Spanish for use by Latin American countries.

[11] In October 1989, the academy moved to Homestead Air Force Base, Florida and was reassigned from the division.

Joint exercises included paratroop drops and close air support for Army troops.

That year also saw the division performing hot weather testing of the Boeing E-4B Airborne Command Post aircraft.

[13] The following year, the division deployed OA-37 Forward Air Controllers to Southwest Asia for Operation Desert Shield.

[7] Its pilots continued to serve in Southwest Asia as battalion air liaison officers during Operation Desert Storm, even as the squadron was being inactivated at its home station.

The 630th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, which had been activated in 1988 and assigned to the division to manage the Caribbean Basin Radar Network Southern Regional Operations Center was transferred to the 24th Wing.

[9] Three months later, the division returned to Albrook Air Force Station from Howard after an absence of almost twelve years.

[7] In February 1991, the division became Air Forces Panama and once again assumed responsibility for the subordinate units of the 24th Composite Wing, which was inactivated.

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