And while they cooperated with Guatemalan Armed Forces in 2015, in 2016, the BDF hopes to team up with armies from all over the world. That's because
they want to build a Jungle Warfare School Of Excellence. Now the BDF has been doing training since 1991, but this project aspires to be on an entirely
different level:…
Brig. Gen. David Jones - Commander, BDF
"But we want to expand it at a larger level because for the most part it is only individual officers and soldiers from foreign armies to do training in
Belize but some of the forces to include the US army, the German, the Dutch, Norwegians, when they come in they want to bring in at least at company
strength; so in excess of 100 men, 200 men instead of just 5 or 6. It will be a larger footprint of people coming to use the training areas in Belize.
So we want it to be a school of excellence that not just the European countries but also the members of the Caribbean come into Belize and do jungle
training here in Belize."
And apart form training, Central American, Caribbean and American armed forces want to team up to stop the flow of drugs through Belizean waters and
territory – a trade which Jones says is huge:..
Brig. Gen. David Jones - Commander, BDF
"And the region wants to work with us in order to fight transnational organized crime that we know drugs are passing through Belize and we're not
probably interdicting probably about 5% it and some of it stays in Belize which affects our society. So the BDF is going to play its part and we're
going to be very aggressive this year."
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