In 2012, the Belizean government spent about $17 million on the military, constituting 1.08% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

[4] The military of Belize dates back to 1817, when the Prince Regent Royal Honduras Militia, a volunteer organization, was founded.

Presently, it is stationed at Fairweather Camp, Punta Gorda in the Toledo District with its two companies and in Belize City maintaining a presence to accomplish its task as stipulated in the Defence Act.

These are now presently designated Battalion Tactical Areas of Responsibility (Bn TAOR) and Command HQs were based on rotation between Price Barracks and Fairweather Camp in Punta Gorda.

She has one of the widest wing spans which produces ease in her soaring and a quick and graceful stream line for the attack.

This Company justified very early its existence by providing the volunteers with a valuable mobile force during the Indian disturbances in the Western District.

On 4 August, 1914, the astounding news reached Belize that Great Britain had declared war on Germany in defence of Belgium.

Companies were formed in Corozal, Stann Creek, El Cayo and Orange Walk, and detachments at Benque Viejo and Hill Bank.

This force made its first public appearance on the 4th February 1929, immediately after the great hurricane of 1931 which destroyed the City of Belize.

Some of the finest examples of discipline, loyalty and esprit de corps were demonstrated when men had lost their homes and in some cases their families quickly made their way to the drill hall before the fury of the devastating winds had abated in answer to the “Fall in” call of the bugle.

Men of all walks of life in Belize, members of the legislature, Heads of Government, department clerks and the ordinary laborer, seeing what organization and discipline could do, joined the defence force.

The Combat Engineer Platoon, formerly referred to as the Assault Pioneers in the early days of the BDF, has heavy equipment at its disposal and is trained to renovate and erect buildings as well as engage in construction.

[13] The SBU's mandate includes mainly the entire country of Belize, all the rivers and the coast lines, which operates under the Air Wing.

[16] The unit is in charge of making sure that no illegal activities occur within the country of Belize in the rivers and the coastline.

The band was originally formed in 1947 from the North Caribbean Force (Battalion of Belize) fundamentally as a Drum & Bugle Corps, at Mount Pleasant Creek, Central Farm in the Cayo District.

In 1952, it added the brass section to the Drums & Bugles Corps that was the nucleus of what would evolve into the existing BDF Band.

[2] September 9, 2024 The Belize Defence Force is deploying two senior officers to Jamaica ahead of an assignment to Haiti, as part of its commitment to support a long-delayed security mission to help Haitian police fight powerful gangs.