Africa-Press – Uganda. The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) Friday graduated 111 UPDF officers after successful completion of the 16-week Junior Command and Staff Course in Jinja.
Presiding over the ceremony, the Chief of training and recruitment, Brig Mathew Gureme commended the graduates for their competence in the course which called for increased integrity, reliability, fairness, commitment, and morals.
Brig Gureme observed that continuous training is a cardinal function of the UPDF because the security environment keeps changing to expose a variety of new security threats. He emphasised discipline, ethics, integrity, competence, ideology, honesty, and leadership from the officers.
“You cannot be disloyal to the state authority and unprofessional the moment you are wearing this uniform. You need to be ethical,” said Brig Gureme.
For his part, the Commandant of Junior Command and Staff College Jinja, Brig Winston Byaruhanga congratulated the officers upon accomplishing another milestone in their military career.
He said the officers were taken through application functions and techniques of support staff, peacekeeping, war deployment, and interdependence of the armed forces.
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