The infantry units have been involved in three peacekeeping missions overseas: Operation URGENT FURY – Grenada, 1983-85; Operation CARIB – Trinidad, 1990; and the most recent deployment, Operation ANVIL – Haiti, 1994-96, where for the first time the JDF was a part of a United Nations peacekeeping force.

Moneague Training Camp is the units’ primary training facility and during the year troops spend there, they undergo intensive training in conventional warfare and internal security operations. A number of training courses and cadres are also conducted there. Members of both battalions also attend courses at Jamaican and overseas institutions.