All year round and more during the peak of the hurricane season, the armed forces in the West Indies (FAA) are preparing to intervene in the French islands.
Until today, they participate in a full-scale exercise to apply their `` natural disaster '' plan to train the various units to provide assistance to the populations, in conjunction with the prefecture, during a cyclone alert. major.
“When a cyclone is on the way, Armed Forces personnel in the West Indies must be able to switch from a routine work configuration to an organization in 'alert' mode to serve in command posts and control rooms. crises.
This type of exercise mainly allows the FAA operations center and the 33rd Marine Infantry Regiment to check the proper functioning of the equipment and to train the personnel to implement all the means of intervention so that the FAA can act after the passage of a cyclone ”, specifies the communication cell of the Armed Forces.
During these crises, elements are pre-positioned on the ground, as close as possible to the area that could be affected, in order to be able to deploy as quickly as possible.
To ensure all these missions, the FAA can be reinforced by the adapted military service regiments (RSMA) and any necessary military means, air, land or naval, coming from Guyana or mainland.
This exercise also allows the Armed Forces in the West Indies to prepare to ensure their own resilience, that is to say to preserve their personnel and the major resources that will be essential to the management of the crisis and the pursuit of their operational missions.
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