The auspicious opening of the new state-of-the-art dormitory for middle-grade student officers at the two-year old Army School of Logistics (ASL) at Trincomalee took place this morning (31) during a simple ceremony, headed by Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army as the Chief Guest.
A platoon of the Engineer Service Regiment (ESR), using an abandoned hangar gave birth to this new accommodation facility wing, complete with 26 separate single rooms at a cost of about Rs 16 million within a matter of few months.
Trincomalee-based first Army School of Logistics, mandated to groom officers for sound competence and professionalism in the field of logistics came into being on 9th May 2011 as a conceptual notion of the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, providing a new impetus for effective and efficient implementation of the organization’s logistic responsibilities as Army commitments at national level began to swell after the successful fight against terrorism.
To this date, the ASL has completed six Junior Officers’ Logistic Courses (JOLC) and six Senior Non-Commissioned Officers’ Logistic Courses (SNCOLC) after its founding in less than two years on the directions of the ASL’s Commandant Brigadier M. H. P. Mihindukulasuriya, but the lack of proper accommodation continued to remain an impediment for absorption of more and more officers to those courses on logistics.
Thursday (31) morning’s opening ceremony got underway soon after a Guard Turnout saluted the day’s Chief Guest on arrival at the premises to be received by the ASL Commandant.
As the auspicious 11.19 minute struck, the Commander unveiled a plaque, engraved in a natural boulder and warmed the new dormitory after cutting a ribbon at the invitation of the ASL Commandant. Afterwards, the Commander, together with senior officers went round the new accommodation premises and saw for himself all well-furnished rooms in the new construction.
Later on, attaching a symbolic gesture of memory, the Commander was invited to plant a tree sapling in the premises.
Major General E.P. de Z Abeysekera, Deputy Chief of Staff Army Headquarters, Major General H. M. H. A. Herath, Commander Army Training Command, Major General Lal Perera, Security Force Commander (East), General Officers Commanding 22 Division, Directors of Army Headquarters, Brigade Commanders, Commandant of the Sri Lanka Air Force Academy Trincomalee, Senior Officers and several Invitees attended the Thursday’s (31) ceremony.
The ASL, which unifies all other training programmes on logistics elsewhere, including the one at Panagoda Army Cantonment, saw its birth as a novel project of the Commander to the organization through which extensive training is imparted to middle-grade officers on a wide range of general staff duties, roles and tasks, rules and conventions of verbal and written communication, principles of administration, function of logistics at regimental levels, logistic operations, etc.
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