St Kitts US Navy - US Navy on exercise in Caribbean
NAME: STK US NAVY 20060505I
TAPE: EF06/0389
IN_TIME: 10:08:10:10
DURATION: 00:02:18:02
SOURCES: AP TELEVISION
DATELINE: St Kitts, 4 May 2006
RESTRICTIONS:
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot of water and island of St. Kitts
2. Tighter shot of St. Kitts
3. Wide shot of USS Monterey
4. Various shots of US Coast Guard training St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard officials
5. SOUNDBITE (English): Tony Crisco, US Officer in charge of coast guard crew training:
"They are very eager to learn; I don''t think that they have as much opportunity to train as we do. So we''re very excited to be here, to be able to step on the decks with these guys and train. We learn as much from them as they do from us, so we are very happy to come out here and apply these techniques. Hopefully they can use them, because without a doubt in the future we will be doing joint operations and joint boardings with them, so we''ll be work hand and hand with them."
6. Wide shot training
7. Various mid shots of St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard officials
8. SOUNDBITE (English): Sergeant Brian Mills, St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard:
"It''s great; as you can see they are preparing us for a World Cup 2007 and if you realise law enforcement play a major role in this upcoming activity that we are going to have in 2007, so it''s always important to keep.. hone our skills and this.. the opportunity arises as this ship comes to port and it is good that we could capitalise on it."
9. More of training
10. Wide shot USS Monterey
STORYLINE:
Twelve members of the St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard on Thursday received training in arrest procedures in preparation for next year''s cricket World Cup, which organisers expect will bring about 100,000 visitors to the region.
Tony Crisco, the US officer in charge of the training, said he and his crew were happy to be involved in the operation, particularly with a view to future cooperation.
"We learn as much from them as they do from us, so we are very happy to come out here and apply these techniques. Hopefully they can use them, because without a doubt in the future we will be doing joint operations and joint boardings with them," he said.
Sergeant Brian Mills, from the St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard, said the training would be of great importance to prepare his team for the cricket World Cup event in 2007.
The sailors from the USS Monterey - part of an aircraft carrier group that left Florida in April - also made repairs on Wednesday to a home for mentally disabled children on the Caribbean island.
The Monterey, a cruiser based in Norfolk, Virginia, was scheduled to link up later in the week with other US warships for training in the Caribbean Sea.
The US dispatched the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and its group to the Caribbean for exercises focusing in part on drug and human trafficking.
Other stops include Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao, St. Maarten and Aruba.
Cuban President Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have criticised the US exercises, accusing the United States of trying to intimidate his country with the show of military strength.
The US military has dismissed the criticism, noting that it holds annual exercises in the region.
People in St. Kitts - a former British colony in the eastern Caribbean that is one of many countries used as a transit point by drug smugglers - welcomed the American troops.
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