Mem­bers of the Unit­ed States Army and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) have been par­tic­i­pat­ed in a joint mil­i­tary train­ing ex­er­cise aimed at en­hanc­ing med­ical pre­pared­ness and op­er­a­tional ef­fec­tive­ness in chal­leng­ing en­vi­ron­ments, the US mil­i­tary has said.

The Tac­ti­cal Com­bat Ca­su­al­ty Care and Jun­gle Tech­ni­cal Ex­change was con­duct­ed from June 15 to 18 at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas, bring­ing to­geth­er US Army Civ­il Af­fairs Sol­diers from the 98th Civ­il Af­fairs Bat­tal­ion (Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions) (Air­borne), TTDF per­son­nel and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from var­i­ous re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies.

The US Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Com­mand South (SOC­SOUTH) said that ex­er­cise fo­cused on im­prov­ing med­ical readi­ness, ca­su­al­ty man­age­ment pro­ce­dures and the shar­ing of best prac­tices for op­er­at­ing in aus­tere and jun­gle en­vi­ron­ments. It not­ed that par­tic­i­pants en­gaged in prac­ti­cal train­ing de­signed to strength­en their abil­i­ty to re­spond ef­fec­tive­ly to emer­gen­cies and sus­tain op­er­a­tions in de­mand­ing ter­rain.