(BIS Photo / Eric Rose)

NASSAU, The Bahamas -- Tradewinds 2018 military training participants from the Royal Bahamas Defence and Police Forces, the United States and Mexico, performed the final exercise with the scenario of rescue and extraction of hostages on June 20, 2018, at the South Beach Pools, in Nassau, The Bahamas.  Two Black Hawk helicopters and RBDF military vehicles assisted in the extraction portion of the exercise.  Among the stakeholders present for the exercise were a number of leaders of local and international uniformed forces, including Commander of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) and Chief of Defence for the Tradewinds 2018 Exercise Commodore Tellis Bethel, Assistant Commissioner of Police Ken Strachan, Acting Commissioner of Correctional Services Bernadette M. Thompson-Murray, and Major General Robert M. Branyon of the United States Southern Command.