Military branches: No regular military force; the Special Service Unit, and the Coast Guard, are both under the command of the Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force.
Manpower available for military service: Males age 16-49: 31,489 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service: Males age 16-49: 28,518; Females age 16-49: ??? (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually: Male: 1,169; female: 1,224 (2010 est.)
Active Manpower: Approximately 94 men and women
Military expenditures - dollar figure: NA%
Military expenditures - percent of gross domestic product: NA%
Military partner: The Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force receives training from the USSOUTHCOM. The United States Armed Forces consider Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a partner nation in the Caribbean, along with St. Lucia.
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“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
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Fought was this noble fray,
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To England to carry.
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