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Julian Corrales, Grace Hirigoyen, Robin Nin, CDR. Tomas Kringel USCG, PVT Andre Lewis, Barbados Defense Forces, Brian McArdle, DIR-I, Master Chief Charles Ferrante USCGR, Raúl Fernandez-Calienes at St. Ann’s Fort Christchurch, Barbados. (L to R). |
Recently, Auxiliarists from LANT 53 traveled to Barbados to participate in the Initial Planning Conference for Tradewinds 2012. Tradewinds is an annual exercise of Caribbean nations gathered for the purpose of regional cooperation in law enforcement, security and disaster recovery.
The initial planning conference, hosted by Marine Forces South met with members of Caribbean member nations to plan on what subjects the 17 partner nations would like to be taught. After a week and a half of classroom instruction a training exercise involving all countries was conducted to put to use the lessons learned in the classroom.
"This is a great opportunity to work with military members of our partners in the Caribbean," commented Auxiliarist Julian Corrales. "The whole idea of Tradewinds is to establish a framework for improving cooperation and operations among partner nations."
~mg 05-04-12