The Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment, through the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain and the US South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM), has do­nat­ed 8,640 meals ready-to-eat (MREs) to the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF).

The do­na­tion con­sists of 15 pal­lets of field ra­tions val­ued at US$130,000.

Each MRE con­tains a full meal, in­clud­ing pro­tein, car­bo­hy­drates, a snack, cof­fee, tea and a sweet, and pro­vides about 1,250 calo­ries. The ra­tions have a long shelf life and are in­tend­ed for use by troops on ex­tend­ed op­er­a­tions or by first re­spon­ders dur­ing emer­gen­cies.