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The first intake of 13 Officer Cadets who were earmarked to be trained at the Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa, were enlisted on 16 April 1968. The 1971 JVP insurrection, saw the Officer Cadet Intake 4 expanding to 30 cadets. Sri Lanka Military Academy. Since then Officer Cadets were locally trained and commissioned.
The Volunteer Force Training School Diyatalawa ( VFTS Diyatalawa) is the primary training facility for the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force. Traditionally, training of the Ceylon Defence Force took place at Diyatalawa Garrison with the annual training camp becoming a regular fixture. This practice continued after the formation of the Ceylon Army ...
All pre-commissioning training for officers are carried out at the Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA) (formally the Army Training Centre) and at the Volunteer Force Training School (VFTS) situated in Diyatalawa. The officer cadets graduating from SLMA are commissioned as officers in the regular and volunteer forces, while VFTS conducts shorter ...
Kottegoda enlisted into the Sri Lankan Army in February 1970, upon his completion of his officer cadet training at the Sri Lanka Military Academy, Diyatalawa, then called the Army Training Centre. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of the 1st Battalion of the Ceylon Light Infantry in June 1971 during the 1971 JVP Insurrection . [1]
The institutions under the Army Training Command that train officers and other ranks of the Sri Lanka Army are: Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA)( Sinhala : ශ්රී ලංකා යුද්ධ හමුදා විද්යාපීඨය ) [1] - The Sri Lanka Military Academy, Diyatalawa provides initial training for all regular ...
Sri Lankan Civil War. Colonel Tuan Rizly Meedin (27 July 1966 – 29 October 2005) was a Sri Lanka Army officer and intelligence officer who, while serving as the Senior Staff Officer, RHQ, Military Intelligence Corps, was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the ceasefire and peace process .
Prasanna Wickramasuriya. Lieutenant Colonel Prasanna Wickramasuriya, WWV, RWP, RSP is a highly decorated (retired) Sri Lanka Army officer who served as Chairman of Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd. As a two time recipient of the Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya (WWV), the highest wartime military decoration awarded non-posthumously by ...
Military career. Laphir instead opted to join the Sri Lanka Army and was selected as a cadet officer of the cadet intake no 14 (long course) of the Army Training Center in Diyatalawa on 11 August 1980. The course officer for intake no 14 was Captain Gamini Hettiarachchi.