Lt. Ernest Richards of the Jamaica Defense Force delivers

Lt. Ernest Richards of the Jamaica Defense Force delivers his range safety brief to members of other partner nations while on the range during the range management phase of Exercise Tradewinds 2014. The Marines of 4th Law Enforcement Battalion teamed up with the soldiers from the Royal Canadian Army to train 13 Caribbean partner nations during Exercise Tradewinds 2014 aboard Las Calderas Naval Base, Dominican Republic. Tradewinds 2014 is a joint, combined exercise conducted in order to build partner nation counter-transnational organized crime missions, humanitarian aid and disaster response operations capacity. The ultimate goal of Tradewinds 2014 is to promote interoperability and multinational relationships throughout the Caribbean theater. (Jamaica Defense Force photo by Cpl. Darren Beckles)