Vice-Chairman of State Administration Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win Delivers a Speech at Meeting with Officer Instructors and Cadets of Defence Services Academy

Ministry of Defense/ Nay Pyi Taw / October 06, 2023

The Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win delivered a speech at the meeting with officer instructors and cadets at the Convocation Hall of the Defence Services Academy (DSA) in PyinOoLwin on 3 October.

During the meeting, the SAC Vice-Chairman Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) delivered a speech as follows:

· It is necessary for instructors who teach academic subjects as well as military subjects to be proficient in respective subjects, and to constantly study respective subjects in accordance with Revolution of Military Affairs (RMA) technologies.

· Like potters who have to pound their pots repeatedly, instructors are required to admonish their cadets repeatedly.

· In accordance with the motto of the Tatmadaw training, “The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war,” cadets must be trained very hard. Only then, will they be model military leaders on whom the people and the Tatmadaw can rely.

· Instructors who have to teach cadets academic and military subjects are required to do so based on their academic subjects and military training they have acquired and experiences of overcoming difficulties in life out with sympathy so that their cadets are as proficient in the disciplines and training as their instructors.

· As numerous lives of military personnel and their families depend on the shoulders of their leaders, cadets are required to be proficient in academic disciplines and military training to make right decisions since the cadet’s life.

· Therefore, cadets are required to try hard to be proficient in academic disciplines and military training with firm conviction and beliefs.

· Today, some powerful countries are using soft power and hard power in the form of multilateral warfare to interfere with small countries that are trying to become developing ones. So, we need to be cautious about that. The State, Tatmadaw and the people have to make collaborative efforts in unison to overcome those challenges.

Also present together with the SAC Vice-Chairman Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General were Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy, and Air) General Maung Maung Aye, senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief, the Commander of Central Command, the Commandant of the DSA and responsible officer instructors, and cadets.

Source: Myawady Daily Newspaper (4-10-2023)