Kofi Ampeah Woode
The Naval Recruit Training School (NRTS) under the Naval Training Command (NAVTRAC) of the Ghana Navy (GN), has held a fiery Inter-Division Steeplechase Competition for its Basic Training (BT) 84-2022 recruits, to test the mental and physical fitness levels of the recruits, and to instill a sense of competition in them.
As part of the hectic Physical Training Schedule, towards drawing down the curtains of converting the young civilians into professional Naval Ratings, the one-day contest was organized for three hundred and thirty-nine (339) recruits, at NAVTRAC, Nutekpor, in the Volta Region, on Friday, January 6, 2023, with the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) Director, Supply & Transport – Colonel (Col) Fuseini Abdulai Nagtoma, as the Guest-of-Honour, backed by the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), NAVTRAC – Commodore Godwin Bessing.
Col Nagtoma told the Recruits that physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, but also the basis for a dynamic and creative intellectual activity, and that in the noble military profession, just as one requires physical fitness to go far, one equally needs a good intellectual ability to be able to digest and find solutions to problems that come along.
At the awards, BEST DIVISION was won by Ghana Navy Ship (GNS) Sebo, 1ST RUNNERS-UP went to GNS Anzone, and 2ND RUNNERS-UP went to GNS Yogaga.
Dignitaries who witnessed the event included Training Coordinator, NAVTRAC – Naval Captain Kpesenu, Army Liaison, Ministry of Defence – Col Ibrahim Salifu, Commanding Officer, NRTS – Lieutenant Commander Emilio Okyere-Dadzie, Officers, Ratings and Defence Civilian Staff of the NAVTRAC.
