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TRIDENT, NOVEMBER 14, 2005
Officers from around the world to be trained in NS
Participants of the International Command and Staff Course at Camp Aldershot, October 14, 2005.
By A/Slt Stephan Boivin
Trident Staff
Thirty-nine officers from 30
countries are participating in an
International Command and Staff
Course at Camp Aldershot, Nova
Scotia. The course, run by the Canadian
Forces Military Training Assistance
Program Directorate (MTAP)
and the Reserves, will be held until
December 8, 2005.
“MTAP is our contact to all foreign
officers. We sponsor officers
from around the world to take
training, to be more interoperable
with Canadian troops. MTAP also
sponsors language training and
staff duties training,” said Major
(Maj) Kevin Crowell, MTAP’s Chief
Instructor. Maj Crowell retired in
2000 and was asked to instruct last
year’s pilot course. “I happened to
be looking for work at the same time
they were looking for senior officers
to instruct here. Once I got in I got
hooked, just working with the international
students.”
This 15-week course serial of the
new Command and Staff Course is
the result of the immense success of
last year’s pilot and will be offered
twice a year. “[Last year’s] course
went over very well, it was well
received and we decided to expand
it. We brought graduate students
from last’s year course, from Ghana,
Kenya and Nigeria, and they’re here
as directing staff (DS) on this course.
It’s now become a five year commitment
with two series per year, we
have expanded to include ethics,
leadership, and training development.
We teach them how to program
training, how to instruct, how
to develop courses.” commented
Maj Crowell.
Captain (Capt) Lloyd Atror, from
the Ghana Armed Forces and Captain
Edward Banda, from the Kenya
Armed forces, are both graduates
from the pilot’s course who returned
to instruct as directing staff. They
feel privileged to be participating in
this first serial. “We were invited to
come as instructors and decided to
say yes to the challenge—a good
opportunity. I see it as a privilege, an
honor, to myself and to my country
for coming back,” said Captain
Atror. “Canada belongs to NATO, and
the world, more or less, is going
NATO. In international missions and
peacekeeping missions, it is NATO
standards,” he said. The course is a
good opportunity to have international
exposure because the students’
countries operate in many international
missions and this gives them
the opportunity to meet people from
NATO countries.
The International Command and
Staff Course emphasizes the communications
and problem solving
skills, but one of the interesting
aspects of the course is the opportunity
to learn about each other’s country
and provide cultural awareness.
“Probably one of the things that I find
they enjoy a lot is hockey. Also the
national perspective, where each one
has a period of 15 to 20 minutes to
[present] their country, we found that
the students enjoyed it a lot. We
found it enjoyable ourselves too,”
said Major Kevin Crowell. “This
year we had the whole student body
in the theater and we have seen all of
the presentations on every country
that is represented here. It took a lot
time but it was very enjoyable and
the students said they wouldn’t trade
it,” added Major Crowell.
The students’ experiences in this
course and in Canada are very
enriching and it is good exposure to
the type of challenges they might
encounter in international missions
and it is also a chance to experience
NATO standards. “We are trained to
familiarize to NATO standards and if
I can get near to NATO standards I’ll
be more than satisfied,” noted Captain
Stojavonski Zlatko, artillery
Officer from the army of the Republic
of Macedonia. “The main aim is
to learn something in the NATO standard,
so that we can work easily
together internationally,” said Major
B. Regmi, company commander in
the Royal Nepalese Army from the
Kingdom of Nepal.
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