Kofi Ampeah Woode
The 69 Airborne Force, Special Boat Squadron (SBS), and the Fighter Ground Attack (FGA), jointly demonstrated ferocity, vehemence, verve, vivacity, in vying for victory in the Field Training Exercise (FTX) of EXERCISE EAGLE CLAWS ’23 of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), on Day 2, with troops exercised intensely on preemptory ‘attack on insurgents’ camp’, and ‘snatch operations’.
The 2nd day of the 4-day Tri-Service FTX, on Tuesday 5 December 2023, at Daboya in the Savannah Region, worked with a scenario where troops dealt with overcoming a fictitious insurgent group, bent on seizing some of Ghana’s resources.
Based on the scenario, the troops assaulted, captured an insurgent leader, searched and permanently destroyed found weapons, whiles Major General (Maj Gen) Thomas Oppong-Peprah – Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), in the company of other Generals and Colonels, scrutinized every decision of the exercise players.
On the sidelines of the training, the COAS also took some time off to inspect ongoing works at the Army Special Operations Training School (ASOTS), Daboya, where he checked a 100-bed capacity accommodation for Female Recruits, and a number of others.
General Oppong-Peprah made a point that previously at the Battle Training Camp, Bundase, in constructing a similar accommodation for females, provision was made to install male urinary points at the washrooms, with the mindset that in the future, the structure could also be utilized to accommodate males, in a situation where females were fewer and have to be relocated to another facility.
He said it is that foresight that has occasioned similar provision to be made at the ASOTS Female accommodation, to afford in wisely utilizing scarce resources available, to meet the large needs of training troops, which the Army is saddled with.
Since the inception of ASOTS in 2021, General Oppong-Peprah’s administration has undertaken about eighteen (18) projects, and has plans of constructing more, including a modern cookhouse for the school.
By Kofi Ampeah-Woode, Daboya
