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Barbados Military 2015
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SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Barbados Military 2015
SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on June 23, 2014

Military branches:
Royal Barbados Defense Force: Troops Command, Barbados Coast Guard (2011)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service, or earlier with parental consent; no conscription (2013)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 73,820
females age 16-49: 73,835 (2010 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 58,125
females age 16-49: 58,016 (2010 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 1,842
female: 1,849 (2010 est.)

Military - note:
the Royal Barbados Defense Force includes a land-based Troop Command and a small Coast Guard; the primary role of the land element is island defense against external aggression; the Command consists of a single, part-time battalion with a small regular cadre deployed throughout the island; the cadre increasingly supports the police in patrolling the coastline for smuggling and other illicit activities (2007)


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Barbados on this page is re-published from the 2015 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Barbados Military 2015 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Barbados Military 2015 should be addressed to the CIA.
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  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order




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