A group of BDF soldiers have probably already settled in at what will be their new home in Dominican Republic for about two weeks. Now they aren't on vacation, not at all, 41 soldiers traveled to the DR yesterday for the first half of the annual Exercise Tradewinds. In a release sent today it states "it is held jointly by the United States Southern Command and its multinational partners to promote regional security cooperation. This year's exercise comprises 22 nations and over 18 different regional organizations". The focus is on humanitarian assistance or disaster response, counter threat network, rapid response among other critical themes.
Phase one of the exercise is being hosted by the Dominican Republic from May 29th to June 9th and Phase two will be hosted by St. Vincent and the Grenadines from June 12 th -22nd.
Belize's contingent is led by Major Justo Veliz of the BDF who is Deputy Commander of the Joint Task Force Land Command for this exercise.
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