Army Commander meets his former course mates

Sri Lanka Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya who is on a six day visit in Pakistan met his former course mates at Pakistan’s School of Armour and Mechanized Warfare (SA & MW) at Nowshera Cantonment in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

The visiting Commander on arrival at Pakistan’s School of Armour and Mechanized Warfare at Nowshera cantonment was warmly received and later explained how those vital wings in the Pakistan Army operate depending on demand for training in these fields of professionalism.

All his yesterday’s Pakistani course mates are senior high ranking officers in Pakistan Army today. Lieutenant General Jayasuriya followed the Young Officers Course AC-46 in 1980 to become the 1st in order of merit as the 2nd Lieutenant and his subsequent pursuit of knowl-

Pakistani course mates are senior high ranking officers in Pakistan Army today

edge in the Mid Career Course as a Major of Sri Lanka Army at the same prestigious SA & MW in 1988.

During 2000-2012, the SA & MW has provided training to 74 officers in the Sri Lanka Army in Armour Course, Junior Staff Course, Mid-career Course, Armour Officers Advanced Technique Course and Radio and Armour Instructor Course.

Nowshera cantonment has been entrusted the training of all mechanized troops of Pakistan Army over a span of six decades has improved tremendously having a number of Army training establishments.