THE FIRST SL WOMEN TO GRADUATE
Flight Lieutenant Lakshika Attale and Corporal Amarasena are the first SL women to attend the school and will graduate this week.
This is the first group of women from Sri Lanka (Air Force) to graduate from the Army School of Ceremonial in Catterick, in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Flight Lieutenant Attale and Corporal Amarasena are the first Sri Lankan women to attend the school and they will graduate this week.
“It’s a rare chance, so we are really happy,” Flt Lt Attale said.
“[Lieutenant Attale and Corporal Amarasena] have done very well,” said Colour Sergeant Paul Money, one of the instructors.
Learning how to perform a correct drill is key to British armed forces, but more and more international military representatives visit the training centre each year.
During their time in Catterick, foreign students learn how to perform the drill and how to teach it when they return to their home countries where they are expected to give lessons to their own national military divisions.
The Army School of Ceremonial Instructors have also travelled to Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and Hong Kong to spread the British drill across the world. “It’s because we do it properly,” said Colour Sergeant Money when explaining why so many international military representatives visit the Catterick school each year.
The British Army School of Ceremonial is based at the Infantry Training Centre Catterick, which trains all the British Army’s infantry soldiers. (forces.net)