GDF, U.S military for nine-day training exercise

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From left to right: Major Loraine Foster; Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best; Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, American Ambassador D. Brent Hardt and Lieutenant Ryan Brooks at the press conference today.
From left to right: Major Loraine Foster; Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best; Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, American Ambassador D. Brent Hardt and Lieutenant Ryan Brooks at the press conference today.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will on Thursday begin a nine-day joint training exercise here, dubbed Fused Response 2012, with the United States military.

According to US Ambassador to Guyana D. Brent Hardt, Fused Response is the largest annual exercise of its sort in the hemisphere, with participation by approximately 125 Guyanese personnel and 350 U.S. personnel. This is said to be the first time the exercise will be conducted in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Hardt explained, during