‘Exercise - Cormorant Strike VIII - 2017’ Formally Launched from Minneriya

‘Exercise - Cormorant Strike VIII - 2017’, the multi-national Field Training Exercise (FTX), organized by the Sri Lanka Army, started off for the 8th consecutive year with the participation of Sri Lankan tri-forces and 69 foreign participants representing 13 countries around the world at Infantry Training Centre (ITC), Minneriya at the Eastern region Sunday (3) evening.

The introductory meeting was conducted at the Exercise Operational Headquarters in Minneriya this evening (3). Foreign participants from Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Russia, USA, Brazil, Sudan, Iraq, Israel, Oman, Turkey, Iran and Kenya were educated on the conduct of the Exercise.

More than 2675 Army, Navy and Air Force troops, including 69 foreign military participants and observers, Mechanized infantrymen, Commandos and Special Forces of the Sri Lanka Army are taking part together with their foreign counterparts at the annual joint exercise.

During the inauguration Major General Aruna Jayasekara, Exercise Director introduced the sliding icon in the Army website and requested to click on to www.army.lk (sliding icon) bellow for more updates and information.

Major General Aruna Jayasekara works as the Exercise Director while Brigadier Nishantha Herath, Brigadier Sujeewa Senarath Yapa, Brigadier Uditha Bandara, Colonel Chandra Jayaweera, Colonel Sujeewa Hettiarachchi and Colonel Chandana Wickremasinghe are the Deputy Directors in the Exercise.