Navy Rear Adm. Thomas L. Brown, the commander of Special Operations Command South, shakes hands with Colombian Lt. Gen. Juan Pablo Rodriguez, the commander of the Colombian Special Operations Forces, after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Fuerzas Comando 2012. The signing of the MOU finalized a week-long conference in which senior planners from both SOCSOUTH and the Colombian military worked together in order to finalize all coordination efforts for this year's Fuerzas Comando exercise. The exercise is set to take place from June 6-14 at the Colombian National Training Center base in Tolemaida, Colombia.