Military employment is a calling – Recruits told

By
Kwamina Tandoh, GNA

Accra, Sept. 20, GNA – A total of 403 army
recruits have been inducted into the Army Recruits Training School (ARTS) at
Shai-Hills, in Shai Osudoku District in the Greater Accra Region, with a call
on them to be devoted to the profession.

Colonel Francis Anemana, Director, Army
Peacekeeping Operations, Ghana Armed Forces, made the call at the Induction and
Religious Parade for the first batch of the 2018 Basic Infantry Training Course
2018.

He said a military career is a calling and not
a mere job opportunity as it demands total sacrifice of the life of a person
enlisted, to forsake pleasure, family, acquaintances and personal interests to
protect lives and keep the peace of the nation, even at the peril of the
soldier’s life.

Col Anemana said person’s looking for jobs to
keep body and soul together must look elsewhere, away from the military, since
that security institution denies the soldier closeness to one’s spouse,
children, holidays, weekends and many other pleasures.

A total of 407 persons were admitted to the
training school on Friday, July 20, 2018, but after eight weeks of
preliminaries, four persons deserted the camp, leaving 403 for the induction
parade (with three men already in clutches due to injuries suffered from the
compound’s uneven surface), which formally admits them into the recruits
training school, after which they will enlisted into the Ghana Army.

The training period of 24 weeks, is designed
to whip away laziness, lousiness, looseness, idleness, lack of self-control and
to inculcate discipline, dedication, selflessness, self-control, physical
fitness, motivation, teamwork and esprit de corps, in the recruits at passing
out.

Among the many dignitaries present at the
function were, the District Chief Executive of Shai Osudoku, Daniel Akuffo,
Lt-Col ELS Gyadu – Commanding Officer of the ARTS and traditional rulers.

GNA

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