In 1939, the Puerto Rican Department was created and in May 1941 the Panama Canal and Puerto Rican Departments were combined as the Caribbean Defense Command, although each was still referred to as a department.

After rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, he became the assistant chief of staff of the Caribbean Defense Command.

During World War II the United States Army added a massive concrete bunker to the top of El Morro to serve as a Harbor Defense Fire Control Station to direct a network of coastal artillery sites, and to keep watch for German submarines which were ravaging shipping in the Caribbean.

It remained as the senior Army headquarters in the region until activation of the Caribbean Defense Command ( CDC ) on 10 February 1941.

Although the Caribbean Command was designated by the Defense Department on 1 November 1947, it did not become fully operational until 10 March 1948, when the old Caribbean Defense Command was inactivated.

In November 1942, he was appointed commander of the US Caribbean Defense Command and remained in this post for the rest of the war.

After a time with no command, Brett was appointed commander of the US Caribbean Defense Command and the US Army's Panama Canal Department in succession to Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews in November 1942.

Brett requested voluntary retirement and retired on 30 April 1945 with the rank of major general, only to be immediately recalled to active duty the next day as a temporary lieutenant general and as Commanding General of the Caribbean Defense Command and Panama Canal Department.

degree from Yale University, 1948 ; studied at New York University Law School, 1948-1949 ; founding partner in Sterling International, a paper marketing and manufacturing business, 1950-1964 ; was vice president of that company and several of its subsidiaries including Sterling Vineyards, 1960-1982 ; was Director of the U. S. Mission in Cairo, Egypt, of the Agency for International Development, 1982-1985 ; Director of the Agency for International Development Caribbean Basin Initiative, 1985-1988 ; was Assistant Secretary of the Army ( Financial Management ), 27 May 1986-12 May 1988 ; served concurrently as Acting Under Secretary of the Army, 28 February 1988-23 May 1988 ; was Under Secretary of the Army and Army Acquisition Executive, 24 May 1988-13 August 1989 ; while serving as Army Under Secretary, performed the duties of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 13 May 1989-10 August 1989 ; was Secretary of the Army, 14 August 1989-19 January 1993 ; chairman of the board of the Panama Canal Commission, 1990-1993 ; died in San Francisco, California, 18 May 1995.

Command and control ship and carrier were also reportedly active in the Caribbean at the time.

He was placed in charge of the Caribbean Command in 1948, controlling U. S. forces in the Caribbean, and in 1949 was assigned to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff for Administration under then Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins.

: Redesignated: Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, 1 July 1942 – 16 Oct 1943

They also attempted to penetrate the Miami facility of Southern Command, which plans and oversees operations of all U. S. military forces throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

" Aligned under the 403d Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command ( AFRC ) and based at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, it flies aircraft into tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean for the specific purpose of directly measuring weather data in and around those storms.

It is the hub for Navy logistics going to the U. S. European Command and U. S. Central Command theaters of operations, as well as to the Caribbean areas under U. S. Southern Command.

Thus, the principle of Unified Combatant Command was established and the Caribbean Command was one of them.

On 6 June 1963, reflecting the fact that the command had a responsibility for U. S. military operations primarily in Central and South America, rather than in the Caribbean, it was formally redesignated as the United States Southern Command.

* Latin, Caribbean allies hail new U. S. Southern Command chief by John Yearwood, Miami Herald, 26 June 2009

Telephone service is provided through ETECSA, mobile telephone service is provided through the Cellular Telephone Company of Cuba ( CUBACEL ) and Caribbean Cellular ( Celulares del Caribe, C-COM ).

Post-Colonial perspectives on the vampire legend are provided in Nalo Hopkinson's novel Brown Girl In The Ring ( 1998 ), which features the Soucouyant, a vampire of Caribbean folklore, and in Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep ( 1995 ) and its sequel The Living Blood ( 2001 ).

Tommy Muñiz became owner of the station and, in 1966, provided greater coverage of the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, than any other Puerto Rican TV station.

At Tokyo Disneyland, whose mansion is a replication of the one in Florida, both inside and out, the narration is provided by Teichiro Hori, a movie producer from Toho Studios ( Hori also provides the voice of the talking skull in Tokyo's version of Pirates of the Caribbean ).

Electrical service for Grand Cayman is provided by Caribbean Utilities Company Ltd., with its corporate headquarters located on North Sound Road.

Wardair provided domestic service in Quebec, Manitoba, Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, as well as international service to Europe, the United States, and several Caribbean and South American countries.

Sparrow has since appeared in other video games, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow where he was voiced by Johnny Depp, the adaptation of Dead Man's Chest where he was once again voiced by James Arnold Taylor, and various game versions of At World's End where he was voiced by Jared Butler with motion capture movements provided by Johnny Paton.

The Trust has also provided a safety net for two species living on the Caribbean island of Montserrat where a volcano erupted in 1995.

Frees also provided voices for numerous characters at Disney parks, including the unseen " Ghost Host " in the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and several audio-animatronic pirates, including the Auctioneer, in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

BWIA also had an alliance with another Caribbean airline, LIAT, which together provided over 30 regional destinations.

Duty / quota-free treatment is also available for certain knit apparel made in CBTPA beneficiary countries from fabrics formed in the Caribbean Basin region, provided that U. S. yarns are used in forming the fabric.

Besides trips, Royal Caribbean provided prizes in vacation tours on each team arrives first in Pit Stop.

The campaign has succeeded in part: whereas during the early 1980s only Vieques Air Link and Prinair provided service to the airport, now the airport is served by Vieques Air Link, Air Culebra and a number of other small carriers from around the rest of the Caribbean.

For this, the alliance of the English Miskito ethnic group was decisive, and the British provided them with armaments that allowed them to subdue the other ethnic groups of the Caribbean coast, the Sumu, and the Rama.

It was renamed the KS Harmony, and provided in the Caribbean.

Founded in 1972 with a single prop engine aircraft, Carib Aviation provided charter and scheduled flights throughout the Caribbean from its main base in Antigua.

Traveling through the Caribbean to such nations as Puerto Rico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, she has provided coverage of various tropical storms such as Hurricane Georges that have battered the region.

The rhythm is usually provided by the ferrinho much like the use of washboards in zydeco, the saw in Caribbean ripsaw music, the scraper in Sub-Saharan African music and the güiro in Latin and Pre-Columbian music.

On land, volunteers from the Caribbean Mercy also provided dental, orthopedic and healthcare services.

He wrote the script for both Adventure Thru Inner Space and Pirates of the Caribbean, for which he also penned the lyrics to the theme song, " Yo Ho ( A Pirate's Life for Me )" and provided the voice of the talking skull early on in the attraction.

In January 2011, Seidel finished 4th in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Event for $ 295, 960, then went on later that month to take 3rd in a A $ 100, 000 buy-in Aussie Millions tournament for $ 618, 139.

Military officers had revolted against the provisional Junta to restore Bosch, whereupon U. S. President Lyndon Johnson, under the pretext of eliminating Communist influence in the Caribbean sent 42, 000 U. S. troops to defeat the revolt in Operation Power Pack, on April 28.

It has helped provide training for police officers, fire departments, military divers, and environmental investigators in the following locations: North America, Central America, Russia, Australia, and the Caribbean.

Moreover, in keeping with his spiritual-socialism philosophy, President Arévalo Bermejo supported the Caribbean Legion, a group of reformist Latin American military officers and intellectuals who advocated the deposition of right-wing dictatorships in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Venezuela ; the CIA described the Caribbean Legion as a politically destabilizing force, dangerous to US geopolitical interests in the Western Hemisphere.

From 1962 to 1972 the annual camp was at an international level, attended by officers and cadets from Canada and, from other Caribbean territories with air cadets from the United States participating on one occasion.

Corps officers have been part of the Navy's Pacific Partnership ( in the Pacific basin ) and Continuing Promise ( in the Caribbean / west Atlantic ) since 2007.

In 1948 Emperor Haile Selassie I donated of his private land to allow members of the Rastafari movement, Ethiopian World Federation ( EWF ) officers and members and other settlers from Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean to go to Africa.