NAY PYI TAW April 18
The training coordination meeting of defence services academies and training school in Pyin Oo Lwin Station was held at the meeting hall of the Tatmadaw Guest House this afternoon and Chairman of State Administration Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attended the meeting and gave necessary instructions.
Also present at the meeting were Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Maung Muang Aye and senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief, the commander of Central Command, commandants of DSA, DSTA and training schools in PyinOoLwin and officers.
Implementing ways and means to improve tasks personnel are carrying out amounts to upgrading training and oneself
First, the Senior General delivered a speech, saying the meeting is being organized collectively to give instructions on training, which is essential for every army to improve capabilities, and a competent and qualified army has to be built through training.
In doing so, basic and advanced training are being conducted.
Being a good soldier requires commitment, discipline, health and fitness. In accordance with the saying “A lot of sweat can save blood,” training conducted at training schools as well as proper performance of daily duties by individuals amounts to undergoing training. In accordance with the training motto “study, undergo training and observe disciplines”, observing what one has been trained can be regarded as the upgrading of oneself and one’s unit. The job of a soldier is to exercise what has been trained and one’s qualifications and capabilities can only be raised by oneself.
One must upgrade oneself by improving the personal hygiene and dress code. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct proper training and to train personnel to behave properly and to perform tasks assigned dutifully as a habit throughout their lives.
Systematic curriculum and training aids must be fulfilled
Every personnel is provided with basic military training to perform duties higher than one’s current rank based on the position one is assigned. In doing so, developing curriculums is essential and it is necessary to review whether the curriculums are in line with the defence policies of the state and whether they can improve the capabilities of one’s units. It is necessary to improve the curriculum by studying international curriculums and by fulfilling contemporary needs because perfect training can nurture competent soldiers.
It is necessary to take measures to fulfil the training aids and only then, can well trained individual personnel who are good at handling weapons and equipment for respective service forces.
Qualified instructors must be employed to overcome difficulties in applying learnt theories in practical fields
In addition, it is necessary for instructors to be qualified and individual instructors are required to study and must possess the ability to make trainees understand. It is necessary for all instructors to
upgrade their abilities to be ones who are worthy of respect by trainees. It is always important to review the ratio between instructors and trainees and challenges encountered will be overcome successfully only when theories for respective sectors are properly taught.
Individuals must be trained to check themselves and to observe disciplines. As failure to train personnel properly can lead to great losses for the country, personnel must be trained properly.
Individuals must be physically and mentally trained to be good soldiers
In conducting training, it is necessary to train personnel physically and mentally and to provide them with food items that meet nutritional requirements. Only then, will individual personnel be fit and can physical features of a good soldier be developed.
Only when one is physically capable, can mental abilities be built. It is necessary to train personnel to enhance their mental abilities. It is important for instructors to understand the capabilities of individual trainees and to provide proper training to develop their ways of thinking according to their ranks. As training can nurture qualified officers and other ranks, it is vital for respective training schools to place emphasis on training properly.
Reporting on training measures and general requirements of training schools in PyinOoLwin Station
Afterwards, the commandants of training schools in PyinOoLwin Station including DSA, DSTA and DSAS reported to the Senior General on brief history of the respective academies and schools, state of training measures, implementation of guidelines by the Tatmadaw leaders, analysis and assessment over discipline, spirit and learning and training of students and finds on them and general requirements.
Next, the Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) briefed on training measures of the Tatmadaw, supervisory measures to be able to conduct refreshing courses for upgrading training instructors’ abilities and measures being taken for boosting physical and spiritual conditions of the students.
Fulfilling requirements
Then, the Senior General gave necessary instructions on the reports, asked about general needs of the respective training schools and coordinated and fulfilled their needs.
PyinOoLwin, auspicious training ground of the Tatmadaw, must be epitome
In his concluding remarks, the Senior General said that the military science is for self defence and the art of doing jobs is for operating business better and easier. Students are able to exchange and share experience with each other through conducting refresher courses on subject-wise skill in appropriate periods which leads to boosting improvement of forces. Female officers and other ranks discharge duties at the assistance units, and it is needed to help them along with a brotherly and sisterly sense. It is necessary to respect each other individually and to boost improvement of service women’s abilities. Training is the key in boosting abilities of the Tatmadaw and helps improve abilities.
Training schools need to friendly discharge duties through reciprocal respects between them.
As instructors are training students across the country, they are to behave as role models physically and spiritually.
Meeting training students of diploma course on law
Later, the Senior General met training students of diploma course on law at the Defence Services Administration School in PyinOoLwin Station and gave an address. He said such a law course is conducted as the Tatmadaw members need to know and abide by the law. As we are going forward to multi-party democracy and developing a democratic administration, it is necessary to know and abide by the law more. Law emerges from discipline that means living and acting in accordance with code of conduct. Therefore, the students are required to study law-related subjects to know it truly as only if the essence and basis of the law is understood, will there be compliance and action in accordance with the law. As any matter is handled in accordance with the law, law is a compulsory study worth being known.
Law helps boost our administrative abilities, and when being back in units and discharging duties at a promoted rank, it will be of much help to the students. It is necessary not only to work hard during the course but to study the essence of the law. When they have completed the course, the course students are to share knowledge on law to their comrades.
Then, the Senior General and party inspected books and papers on law supporting the course and libraries.
