UPDF Soldiers Graduate in Artillery And Air Defence
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The Monitor (Kampala)
October 31, 2004
Posted to the web October 28, 2004
Jonathan Akweteireho
Masindi
The army has said the 1,750 acre land that Masindi district offered the UPDF Artillery and Air Defence Training School, in Butaiba is not enough.
"Some guns being used can shoot up to 50 miles," Lt. Col. Fred Mugisha, the Ag. Commandant of the artillery division said on Friday.
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He thanked the district for the offer, and requested ooficials of the game reserves of Murchison Falls National Park for more land.
Mugisha was speaking at the pass-out of 95 officers and 749 UPDF soldiers upon completion of various courses in artillery and air defence at the school .
Also present was the army commander, Lt. Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, who said the army would follow the law to access the land.
He said as technology advances, UPDF must improve qualitatively and quantitatively as well.
President Yoweri Museveni said land would not be a problem.
"We are not going to fail to get land for our army to train. We should talk to authorities immediately," he said.
He said construction of a new building at the school would start this or the next financial year.
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Museveni said artillery and air defence forces are vital in all wars.
He advised that all weapons should have simulators to stop wastage of ammunition that would be lost without them.
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