Armed forces integrated into operational training
large-scale European!
From March 21 to 25, 460 active and reserve soldiers from the Armed Forces in the Antilles (FAA) as well as 80 soldiers from the Armed Forces in Guyana (FAG) and 90 soldiers from the Regiments of the Adapted Military Service (RSMA) in Martinique and from Guadeloupe participated in a European, interministerial and joint operational training called EU RICHTER.
The Ministry of the Interior (Directorate General of Civil Security and Crisis Management - DGSCGC -) and the European Union (ECHO - Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Service of the European Commission) organized, in connection with the prefectures of the West Indies, this large-scale exercise which made it possible to train local civil security actors to face the consequences of a major earthquake which then triggered a tsunami.
Integrated into the general system, the military maneuver led by the FAA had two major objectives: to test the resilience of the armed forces units in the Antilles, their personnel and their families during the first phase of play, then to train the FAA, and certain units which they are operationally attached to it, to lead the deployment and intervention of military means in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Saint-Martin, in coordination with the Interdepartmental General Staff of the Antilles zone (EMIZA) as part of an intervention of emergency requested by the Prefecture after a natural disaster. This exercise also made it possible to test the capacities of the FAA to integrate reinforcements from the armed forces in Guyana.
During five days, the missions devolved to the FAA were multiple and are divided into five phases: resilience, initial assessment, relief operations, the stabilization and reconstruction phase and finally the disengagement of forces. During each of these phases, the resources committed and the missions were adapted as quickly as possible.
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