Overview
- The Senate approved the request unanimously with 69 votes and no debate to permit the temporary overseas training.
- The contingent consists of 60 members of SEMAR’s Unidad Naval de Operaciones Especiales following a request from President Claudia Sheinbaum.
- Training is scheduled at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, from April 6 to May 30, with the deployment window running April 1 to May 30.
- Personnel will depart and return via Toluca International Airport on a SEMAR aircraft carrying tactical gear and organic weapons without ammunition.
- Activities include exchanges with U.S. SOCNORTH plus battalion-level maneuvers and live-fire range work, framed as professionalization that does not involve combat operations.