Certificate award ceremony of No 123 Junior Command and Staff Course (JCSC) was held at Bangladesh Air Force Base Cox’s Bazar Thursday. Aysha Siddiqua, Assistant Information Officer of the ISPR confirmed it.
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan distributed certificates and trophy among the graduating officers as the chief guest.
He was received by Air Officer Commanding of Bangladesh Air Force Base Cox’s Bazar Air Vice Marshal A K M Manirul Bahar and Officer Commanding of Command and Staff Training Institute (CSTI) Group Captain Md Nawshad Fatemi.
In the opening address, Officer Commanding of CSTI gave a brief resume on the training and academic curriculums of No 123 JCSC. 16 officers from BAF and one officer from Royal Saudi Air Force have undergone this 13-week-long course. The course is designed to train officers on effective command and staff duties within service, inter-service and joint service environment.
Since inception of JCSC, CSTI is committed to prepare future leaders of Armed Forces who can serve the nation with dignity and honour.
The Air chief handed over the certificates to all graduating officers and awarded the “Chief of Air Staff’s Trophy” to Squadron Leader Mirza Mohammad Ashfaque, GD (P) of BAF for his overall best performance in the course.
He also gave his valuable guidance for future assignments to the participating officers and thanked the government of Saudi Arabia for sending officers in this course.
He added that command and staff skills which have been achieved in the course would also be of immense value in shouldering the future assignments.
Senior officers of BAF, military and civil instructors of the institute and local Member of Parliament along with high officials of local civil administration were present in the occasion.
