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MOTTO:
Service for the Lives of Others.
Training
All Coast Guard personnel undergo basic military training at the JDF Training Depot at
Newcastle, St
Andrew.
On completion of basic training, officer cadets are sent to the Britannia Royal Naval
College in Dartmouth, England where they receive basic naval training.
Ratings undergo continuation training at
Moneague Training Camp, St Ann. On completion, they are sent to HMJS Cagway for a basic
seamanship course which includes swimming and boat- handling. The sailors are then allowed
to specialise in seamanship, communications, diving, and marine or electronic engineering.
Similar specialised training is done in the
United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Exercises
The Coast Guard participates with other arms of the JDF in support of their
watermanship training, ditching drills abeach landings. JDF CG also exercises with
visiting land and naval forces. Some of these training exercises are Exercise TRADEWINDS
involving the United States and Eastern Caribbean countries, Exercise STEEL DRUM with the
British Marines and Exercise SANDSTORM with British and United States troops.
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