The World - News from April 26, 1985
U.S. military forces were joined by Honduran units in an anti-guerrilla training exercise that a Honduran army official called a “message” to neighboring Nicaragua. In a continuation of the “Universal Trek ‘85” maneuvers that involve 420 Hondurans and 7,000 U.S. military personnel, Honduran army units joined U.S. paratroopers to relieve U.S. Marines guarding a remote airstrip on the northern Caribbean coast. The only hitch was a shortage of helicopters, which left rented school buses as the only means of transport for some of the troops.
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