THE United States of America’s military contingents will, this weekend, commence “Exercise Tradewinds 2021”. The exercise is sponsored by the US Southern Command.
The exercise will see participation from 17 nations including, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
According to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Exercise Tradewinds is a Caribbean- focussed training exercise designed to help participants better respond to natural disasters and land and maritime threats. It supports the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative as well as US SOUTHCOM’s goal of building partner nation capacity at the tactical and operational levels.
All training locations provide opportunities to conduct joint, combined, and inter-agency partner nation capacity-building focussed on increasing regional cooperation in complex multinational security operations, as well as in humanitarian assistance and disaster-response operations.