In early March 1988, the Nicaraguan Sandinista government launched Operation Danto to overrun Contra rebel supply caches in the San Andrés de Bocay region and crossed into Honduran territory in the process. Under President Ronald Reagan, the United States responded with a no-notice deployment of elements of the 7th Infantry Division (Light) Quick Reaction Force, which landed at Palmerola Air Base, now Soto Cano Air Base, and moved into position at a Honduran military base. After several days, elements of the 82nd Airborne arrived, and the deployment developed into a live-fire training exercise, although the light infantry soldiers and paratroopers remained prepared to fight. The force included the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 304th Parachute Infantry Regiments, Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, and soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, and 2d and 3d Battalions of the 27th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (Light), from Fort Ord, California. On 17 March, the 1st Battalion landed at Palawrola Airfield, a Honduran Air Force base that served as headquarters for the U.S. military presence in Honduras, and the 2nd Battalion jumped onto the airfield a day later, while soldiers of the 27th Infantry Regiment moved within 3 miles of the Nicaraguan border on 17 March 1988. The 82nd Airborne and the 504th began rigorous training exercises under orders to avoid fighting on the border unless those orders changed, but the Sandinista troops had already begun to withdraw. Within days, the Sandinista government negotiated a truce with Contra leaders, and by the end of March the 27th Infantry had returned to Fort Ord and the paratroopers of the 504th had returned to Fort Bragg. Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of U.S. troops to Honduras in 1988 in response to threatening actions by Nicaraguan forces.