{"id":44876,"date":"2021-11-26T04:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T04:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rdf-officers-other-ranks-complete-advanced-infantry-training\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T04:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T04:14:19","slug":"rdf-officers-other-ranks-complete-advanced-infantry-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rdf-officers-other-ranks-complete-advanced-infantry-training\/","title":{"rendered":"RDF officers, other ranks complete advanced infantry training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AIT is designed to enhance skills of ordinary infantry to enable them effectively perform infantry tasks while fulfilling RDF missions.<\/p>\n<p>The graduation ceremony was presided over by the RDF Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Jean Bosco Kazura on behalf of the RDF Commander-In-Chief,  President Paul Kagame. <\/p>\n<p>Gen Kazura commended the graduates for their milestone achievement, commitment and discipline. <\/p>\n<p>He also appreciated the leadership of the training centre including instructors who work day and night to build their competencies and skills to be effective leaders and soldiers in their respective roles. <\/p>\n<p>The overall best officer, 2nd Lieutenant Fred Rugamba said that the knowledge acquired will help them fulfil their responsibilities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a serving officer, I  was able to acquire additional skills that will enable me to serve my institution and country better\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40180 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/atrai.jpg\" alt=\"Close to 1000 RDF soldiers including Junior officers and other Ranks have completed a 6-month Advanced Infantry Training. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40181 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/atraidrills.jpg\" alt=\"Trainees during military drills. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40182 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/atraika.jpg\" alt=\"The graduation ceremony was presided over by the RDF Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Jean Bosco Kazura on behalf of the RDF Commander-In-Chief,  President Paul Kagame. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40183 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/atraimodel.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Close to 1000 RDF soldiers including Junior officers and other Ranks have completed a 6-month Advanced Infantry Training (AIT) at Nasho Basic Military Training Center, in Kirehe District.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44876"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44876"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}