Liberia: 28 AFL Soldiers Commissioned
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The Analyst (Monrovia)
6 October 2008
Posted to the web 6 October 2008
October 3, 2008, was set aside by the Ministry of National Defense to commission 28 of its trained and professional soldiers of the over 2000 men and women of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL),
According to a Defense Ministry press release, the 28 officer candidates will be commissioned to the rank of Second Lieutenant and the ceremony is expected to be held at the Barclay Training Center (BTC) in Monrovia.
The 28 officer candidates include two female and 26 male, the press release indicated, noting that all of the would-be Second Lieutenant are college graduates who completed the Officer Candidate School.
"They were recommended to the Liberian Senate for commissioning by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the AFL and subsequently confirmed", it further pointed out.
Commissioning is a military tradition whereby an officer candidate is decorated with a new rank and subsequently issued a parchment or citation signed by the President and Commander-in -Chief of the AFL.
The Defense Ministry press release pointed out that commissioning of the officer candidates brings to 73 the number of officers who have been trained and commissioned in the restructured AFL, under the Security Sector Reform Program.
Meanwhile, the Minister of National Defense, Brownie J. Samukai Jr., has reiterated Liberia's key foreign policy statement that not an inch of the Liberian soil will be used to destabilize its neighbors.
Minister Samukai made the statement when the Ivorian Military Attaché, Col. N'goran Aka, paid him a courtesy call on Tuesday at his Benson Street office. The Military Attaché was accompanied to the Defense Ministry by the Ivorian Ambassador accredited to Liberia, Madam Elizabeth Toure.
According to the MOD, the Ivorian colonel holds an undergraduate degree in English Language and Communication and services. He also received his graduate and post graduate degrees in Communication Techniques, Science, Military History and Defense Studies.
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Prior to his appointment as Military Attaché' to the Ivorian Embassy in Liberia, he served as head of the Communication service of the Ivorian Army.
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