The Inquirer (Monrovia)
Garmonyou Wilson
22 December 2008
The Ministry of National Defense (MOD) over the weekend activated its second Battalion in a ceremony held at the Barclay Training Center (BTC).
Serving as guest speaker at the program the Deputy Director of Logistics for the United States African Command, Brigade General Frederick Martin said that the newly activated soldiers should carry with them three core values which are integrity, service and excellence. Brigade General Martin said that the soldiers must always know that their word is gold and that who they are in public should also be who they are in private because those are the attributes of integrity that is part of a soldier's core values.
Speaking on service as one of the core values to the newly activated soldiers, the Deputy Director of Logistics at the U.S. African Command said that service is about serving your country (Liberia) because good soldiers make good citizens.
On the third core value, Brigade General Martin said that the soldiers should always demonstrate excellence in everything they do because the training that they had undertaken was to make them excellent to serve and protect their country.
For his part, Minister of Defense Brownie Samukai, Jr. said that there would be a Liberian National Coast Guard that the country should see coming into operations in January 2009. He told the soldiers that there were more challenges ahead for them, both new soldiers and the new non-commission soldiers. The Defense Minister said that as mandated by the President Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, living conditions for the soldiers would be improved, with the renovations of Camp Ware and Camp Tubman.
The Minister also stated that some twenty-five soldiers would be going to Ghana, twenty to Rwanda and two Non-commission soldiers would be going to Sierra Leone for extra training. Minister Samukai told the soldiers that all of them, officers and Non-Commission soldiers would receive the same training.
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