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On 14 January 1985 the Army Training School was established under Lt Col P. W. J. de Silva SLLI who is the first commandant of the school. Though the infrastructure facilities were available for the staff and the trainers it was decided to build a dormitory to accommodate 500 recruits and firing ranges utilizing the capital votes with the help ...
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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 army officers.
The Infantry Training Centre (ITC) (Sinhala: පාබල පුහුණු මධ්යස්ථානය, romanized: pābala puhuṇu madhyasthānaya) is a unit of the Sri Lanka Army responsible for both basic and advanced training of Soldiers and Officers joining the infantry.
The Army Recruit Training Depot (ARTD) was formed in Diyatalawa on 6 February 1950 for the purpose of training recruits. The first batch of 114 recruits passed out from the ARTD on 2 June 1950. The ARTD was later named as the Army Training Centre (ATC). The Ceylon Army continued to send its Officer Cadets to RMA Sandhurst in the 1950s decade. [4]
The training schools are subordinated to the Army Office. The commander of all training schools is the Deputy Head of the Army Office. Most of the German Army training schools are responsible for the continuation training of a specific arm of service. The commander of each school is usually also the General of the Artillery, General of the ...
Army School of Logistics is located at Clappenburg, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Established on 9 May 2011, to provide academic and training programs in logistics science and management science for both Commissioned Officer and Non Commissioned Officers .
The Vijayabahu Infantry Training School was formed at Sinhavilluwaththa Puttlam on 15 January 1991. The first chief instructor was Upali Fernando. The school has conducted over sixty courses with nearly three hundred recruits per course. Over 13,127 recruits have been trained for distribution to various regiments.