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    Gainsville resident participates in Carribean exercise Tradewinds

    Florida Army National Guard in Barbados

    Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Russell | 170607-N-RG360-0205 Florida Army National Guard 2nd lt. Ryan Noblitt, assigned to...... read more read more

    GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES

    06.07.2017

    Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Russell 

    241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

    BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS – Florida National Guardsman and Gainesville resident, 2nd Lt. Ryan Noblitt, is participating in Tradewinds 2017, an annual, multi-national exercise in the Carribean Sea.

    Noblitt, who has been in the Florida National Guard for five years, joined 2,500 other servicemembers from 20 countries, in Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago from June 6-17, 2017.

    Tradewinds, sponsored by United States Southern Command, headquartered in Miami, Fla., is a joint, combined exercise conducted in conjunction with partner nations to enhance the collective abilities of defense forces and constabularies to counter transnational organized crime and terrorism, and to conduct humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations.

    During the Caribbean-focused exercise, Noblitt a 2010 graduate of Rockridge High School, helped ensure a seamless partnership, cross trained with other service members to ensure a better response to natural disasters, and land and maritime threats, including illicit trafficking in the critical region

    Partner nations participating in the exercise include Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago as well as military personnel from the United States, Canada, France, Mexico, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

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    Date Taken: 06.07.2017
    Date Posted: 06.08.2017 17:31
    Story ID: 236925
    Location: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, US
    Hometown: COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, US

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