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The Sri Lanka Signals Corps ( SLSC) ( Sinhalese: ශ්රී ලංකා සංඥා බලකාය Shri Lanka Sana Balakaya) is a combat support corps of the Sri Lanka Army, [1] responsible for providing military communications, information technology and electronic warfare support. The corps is made up of a signals brigade, ten regular ...
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Major General. Unit. First Regiment of Sri Lanka Signal Corps. Battles/wars. Sri Lankan Civil War. Awards. RWP, USP, ndu, psc, USACGSC. Major General Renuka Rowel, RWP, USP was a Sri Lankan Army general. He was the 10th Colonel Commandant of the Sri Lanka Signals Corps and the Chief Signal Officer of Sri Lanka Army .
Later, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and posted to Sri Lanka Signals Corps on 24 July 1986. Later as a senior army officer, he was the Director General, Real Estate and Quartering of the Sri Lanka Army from 2017 to 2019 and was responsible for acquisition and renting of lands and buildings to the Sri Lanka Army forces.
As of 2024 the Sri Lanka Army had 150,000 personnel. [2] In 2023 the army had 200,783 personnel and the number was reduced to 150,000 in 2024. [2] In late 1987, the army had a total estimated strength of up to 40,000 troops, about evenly divided between regular army personnel and reservists on active duty.
A signal corps is a military branch, responsible for military communications (signals). Many countries maintain a signal corps, which is typically subordinate to a country's army . Military communication usually consists of radio , telephone , and digital communications.
Sri Lanka: Service/ branch: Sri Lanka Army: Years of service: 1944-1946 1949-1977: ... Ceylon Signal Corps from July 1970 to October 1972, during the 1971 Insurrection.
The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of Sri Lanka's three armed services. Established as the Royal Ceylon Army in 1949, it was renamed when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. The Army of approximately 255,000 regular and reserve personnel including 90,000 National Guardsmen and is responsible for overseeing land-based military and ...