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Army’s summer training begins
By Mubasher Bukhari
LAHORE: Various units of four Pakistan Army corps have started annual summer training courses at a village on the outskirts of the city.
Inter Services Public Relations took a team of reporters to view a demonstration of exercises across waterways on Tuesday.
The media team was first taken to the Lahore corps headquarters where Colonel Nasir and Colonel Hamid Abdullah briefed them on the various military exercises conducted throughout the year. Corps Headquarters Chief of Staff Brigadier Mustafa Kausar gave a briefing on the military’s composition and its formations during peace and wartime.
Brigadier Azmat Hayat Malik received the media team at the training place and gave them a comprehensive briefing about watermanship training. “If we are well trained, it is a guarantee for peace,†said Brigadier Malik. “I can say without exaggeration that our army is professionally the world’s best force.â€
The training is divided into four phases including swimming across the water channel, construction and rowing of infantry swimming raft, transportation of vehicles across the channel and assault. Brig Malik said the training was useful for offence as well as defence.
Later, hundreds of officers and Jawans took part in an impressive demonstration. Numerous soldiers carrying machine guns and mortar guns swam across a canal 20 yards wide and occupied the territory across it. They then built a raft and carried a heavy military jeep across the canal in just four minutes. Finally hundreds of soldiers boarded huge boats, crossed the canal and launched an assault.
Colonel Muzaffar Bukhari, majors, captains and lieutenants also joined the exercise and busted the bunkers built across the canal.
Major Shahid Abbas of ISPR told the reporters that Lahore Corps Commander Lieutenant General Shahid Aziz wanted the media’s involvement in the exercises and would invite them again.
Tuesday was the sixth day of the two-week exercise.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-5-2004_pg7_15
Regular exercises like these really help keep the armed forces at their toes. I think PA should consider involving more sophisticated and advanced operations in such exercises to give the army a close-to-reality taste of what modern day warfare is like. :smokingc:
By Mubasher Bukhari
LAHORE: Various units of four Pakistan Army corps have started annual summer training courses at a village on the outskirts of the city.
Inter Services Public Relations took a team of reporters to view a demonstration of exercises across waterways on Tuesday.
The media team was first taken to the Lahore corps headquarters where Colonel Nasir and Colonel Hamid Abdullah briefed them on the various military exercises conducted throughout the year. Corps Headquarters Chief of Staff Brigadier Mustafa Kausar gave a briefing on the military’s composition and its formations during peace and wartime.
Brigadier Azmat Hayat Malik received the media team at the training place and gave them a comprehensive briefing about watermanship training. “If we are well trained, it is a guarantee for peace,†said Brigadier Malik. “I can say without exaggeration that our army is professionally the world’s best force.â€
The training is divided into four phases including swimming across the water channel, construction and rowing of infantry swimming raft, transportation of vehicles across the channel and assault. Brig Malik said the training was useful for offence as well as defence.
Later, hundreds of officers and Jawans took part in an impressive demonstration. Numerous soldiers carrying machine guns and mortar guns swam across a canal 20 yards wide and occupied the territory across it. They then built a raft and carried a heavy military jeep across the canal in just four minutes. Finally hundreds of soldiers boarded huge boats, crossed the canal and launched an assault.
Colonel Muzaffar Bukhari, majors, captains and lieutenants also joined the exercise and busted the bunkers built across the canal.
Major Shahid Abbas of ISPR told the reporters that Lahore Corps Commander Lieutenant General Shahid Aziz wanted the media’s involvement in the exercises and would invite them again.
Tuesday was the sixth day of the two-week exercise.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-5-2004_pg7_15
Regular exercises like these really help keep the armed forces at their toes. I think PA should consider involving more sophisticated and advanced operations in such exercises to give the army a close-to-reality taste of what modern day warfare is like. :smokingc: