On December 12, 1994, the 2-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, deployed as part of Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage. The battalion deployed from Fort Bragg as Task Force (TF) 2-Panther, augmented by 2nd Platoon, C-Co, 307th Engineers (2/C/307th), their habitually associated Engineer platoon, while serving as the Division Ready Force (DRF-1). Their mission was to restore order among approximately four thousand Cuban refugees who had attacked and injured a number of Air Force personnel while protesting their detainment at Empire Range along the Panama Canal. Task Force 2-Panther successfully established a base camp, reorganized four refugee camps, safeguarded the Cuban migrants, and actively patrolled the Panamanian Jungle around the refugee camps for two months. The Task Force also conducted three successful parachute training operations and observed a 92-degree Christmas Day in Panama before returning to Fort Bragg on February 14, 1995.
