Military branches: No regular military force; the Special Service Unit, and the Coast Guard, are both under the command of the Royal Saint Lucia Police.
Manpower available for military service: Males age 16-49: 41,414 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service: Males age 16-49: 32,688; Females age 16-49: 36,289 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually: Male: 1,574; female: 1,502 (2010 est.)
Active Manpower: Approximately 116 men and women
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $5 million (fiscal year 91/92)
Military expenditures - percent of gross domestic product: 2 % (fiscal year 91/92)
Military partner: The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force receives training from the USSOUTHCOM. The United States Armed Forces considers St. Lucia as a partner nation in the Caribbean, along with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Famous quotes containing the words military and/or saint:
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Troll the bowl, the jolly nut-brown bowl,
And here, kind mate, to thee!
Let’s sing a dirge for Saint Hugh’s soul,
And down it merrily.”
—Thomas Dekker (1572?–1632?)