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.
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“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)