Army Reformulating Its Doctrinal Training Modules Establishes Its First ARTRAC For Future Generations
Sri Lanka Army, taking one more great step forward in the reformulation of its training modules that cater to the needs of multifaceted present and future scenarios, established its first state-of-the-art Army Training Command (ARTRAC) Headquarters at Diyatalawa on Sunday (29) during a brief ceremony. The birth of this umbrella wing that incorporates all Army Training Schools, Battalion Trainings and all joint military training exercises.....
Scores of students, civilians and the disabled during a mammoth event, organized by the Army for promotion of goodwill, harmony and reconciliation among all three major ethnicities in Trincomalee, received accolades, incentives and varied forms of humanitarian assistance on Saturday (28).
Giving a helping hand towards further promotion of teaching skills of aesthetic subjects to school students in Mannar District, troops attached to the 54 Division organized an eight-day long workshop at the Mannar Zonal Department of Education premises. The internationally-renowned actress, Mrs Anoja Weerasinghe with members of her ‘Abhina’ academy, contributed to the workshop covering areas of training such as.....
The ‘Guna Jaya Sathuta Padanama’ (Foundation of Goodness) of Mr Kusil Gunasekara which has been supporting the welfare of school students and needy civilians in newly resettled areas and elsewhere in the recent past, offered its generosity to Mankulam area once again by giving away push bicycles, school bags, computers to students and accessories to a school library.
A total of seventy-eight students from schools in Varani, Jaffna, together with their teachers and parents, enjoyed the hospitality of southerners for three days when they recently went on a picnic, following arrangements made by 52 Division Headquarters under the Security Forces Headquarters, Jaffna. Those children on arrival in Colombo visited the planetarium, museum, Vihara Mahadevi Park’s Sathutu Uyana, National Child Development Foundation....
A team of the US Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) Resource Analysis, currently in Sri Lanka to obtain a factual assessment, regarding peace-keeping training capabilities and modules at the Army Institute of Peace Support Operations Training in Sri Lanka (IPSOTSL), called on the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya on Tuesday (31) at Army Headquarters. The delegation led by Mr Scott A. Weidie, Chief of Multi-national Training, US Pacific Command (USPACOM).....
Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal W.D.R.M.J. Goonetileke and Commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, now in Anuradhapura in order to inspect military arrangements in place in connection with the forthcoming 64th Independence Day, inspected military parade rehearsals on Wednesday (01). This year’s theme of the Independence Day is 'Let us build a miraculous motherland' and the main ceremony, headed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.....
Medical luminaries in the Military Hospital at Narahenpita, belonging to Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps (SLAMC), together with outside medical experts, added one more important chapter to its medical history and recently carried out the hospital’s first kidney transplant on an Army soldier who has been afflicted with a long-standing chronic renal failure.......