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Emergency Drawdown Authority: Eastern Caribbean
(Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines)

1998: $1,500,0001

(Ordered September 30, 1998)

From the Department of Defense, Department of the Treasury, and Department of Justice:
  • Rations
  • Field gear
  • Small arms for police forces
  • Training by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to be conducted in Antigua.

1997: $1,500,0002

(Ordered September 30, 1997)

($1,000,000 from Dept. of Defense, $500,000 from U.S. Coast Guard)

Field Gear ("LBE, boots, rain gear, canteens, packs, compasses, ammunition pouches, etc.") $500,000
300 M-16A1 Rifles $300,000
300 .45 caliber pistols $10,000
179-day temporary duty C-26 air support $190,000
Department of Transportation - "Coast Guard support for 82-foot craft supplied to Antigua and Saint Lucia" $500,000

1996: $8,500,0003

(Ordered September 30, 1996)

2 65-foot ocean patrol boats
Training
Secure communications for all member states
Police communications equipment
For Barbados:
  • 2 C-26 fixed-wing aircraft
  • Flight crew equipment

Sources:

1 United States, Department of State, "Memorandum of Justification for use of Section 506(a)(2) special authority to draw down articles, services, and military education and training," September 15, 1998.

2 United States, Department of State, "Summary Sheet," fax document, September 16, 1997.

Federal Register, October 10, 1997: 53221.

3 United States, Department of State, "Memorandum of Justification for use of Section 506(a)(2) special authority to draw down articles, services, and military education and training," September 1996.

Federal Register, November 4, 1996: 56865.

Emergency Drawdown Authority: Eastern Caribbean

 

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