South Sudanese army to hold military drills on Monday
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August 20, 2016 (JUBA) - The command of South Sudan army (SPLA)
announced on Saturday that it will on Monday hold multiple military
drills of the rapid reaction forces.
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SPLA soldiers stand to attention at a containment site outside Juba on
April 14, 2016 (AFP Photo)
The event, according to a statement from the army, will involve the
use of different weapons as well as aircraft and helicopters in the
drills which will be carried out at Gorom.
Military sources say the recruits largely drawn by the ethnic group of
President Salva Kiir and his army chief of general staff, Paul Malong
Awan, have been trained by foreign instructors from Egypt and
neigbouring Uganda to perform airborne landing to seize an enemy’s
airfield and retain it until the arrival of the main forces.
The recruits also received an advance reconnaissance detachment
training about the Airborne Force held reconnaissance and tactics
related to search operations, camouflage blocked and destroyed the
command posts of illegal armed formations after seizing
bridge-crossing sites in the area of responsibility of the rapid
reaction collective forces.
“The SPLA GHQs has announced that the SPLA Military Academy in Gorom
shall be conducting live fire exercise on Monday 22nd August from 0600
hours to 1100 hours. The drill is aimed at honing the assault
intensity, precision, stability and speed of troops”, the statement
obtained by the Sudan Tribune and widely circulated on social and
other media sources for purpose of information reads in part.
It urged residents of Gorom to avoid the area for their own safety.
The direction of fire will be West and Northwest. It also urged the
public not to panic.
The recruits shall be conducting the exercise using AK-47 assault
rifles, PKM light machine guns and RPG launchers, the army’s statement
further stressed.
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21 August 06:50, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Give the citizens Food, Medicine not RPG, PKM, Helicopter gunships
and war planes while you go begging for food and money all over the
world. the people must be given chance to choose the government and
system of governance they want you cattle people.
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