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Mem­bers of the De­fence Force were con­fined to camp yes­ter­day, as a state of height­ened aware­ness re­mained in ef­fect un­til fur­ther no­tice.

Sources con­firmed that the “alert state” was is­sued for mem­bers of the Reg­i­ment, the Coast Guard and the Air Guard to re­port to du­ty yes­ter­day, amidst re­ports from in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia out­lets that a US strike on Venezuela was “im­mi­nent.”

Mil­i­tary sources said the alert state, de­scribed in in­ter­nal mes­sages as a “State One Pos­ture,” is a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure in­tro­duced to en­sure all el­e­ments of the De­fence Force are pre­pared to re­spond swift­ly and ef­fec­tive­ly to any na­tion­al or re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty threat.