In 1983 14 men of the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force were deployed to Grenada during the Operation Urgent Fury.[3] In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad and Tobago after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson. In 1995 members of the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force were deployed in Haiti as a part of Operation Uphold Democracy.[4]