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The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) is the state military organisation of Ghana, consisting of the Army (GA), Navy (GN), and Ghana Air Force. [ 3 ] The Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces is the president of Ghana , who is also the supreme military commander of the Border Guard Unit (BGU).
Burma Camp walls. Burma Camp is the headquarters of the Ghana Armed Forces [1] and the Ghanaian Ministry of Defence. The camp is in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. [2] It retains notoriety and fear from previous Ghanaian military regimes, when civilians who entered the camp might not re-emerge. [3]
The Ghana Army is the principal land warfare force of Ghana.In 1959, two years after the Gold Coast became independent from the British Empire, the Gold Coast Regiment was withdrawn from the Royal West African Frontier Force and formed the basis for the new Ghanaian army.
Later that year a headquarters was established in Accra under the command of Indian Air commodore K. Jaswant-Singh who was appointed as the first Chief of Air Staff (CAS). [9] In 1960 Royal Air Force personnel took up the task of training the newly established Ghana Air Force and in 1961 they were joined by a small group of Royal Canadian Air ...
Ministry of Defence (Ghana), is the governmental department responsible for all actions, related to defence of the Republic of Ghana, from internal or external military threats. The MoD political head is the Defence Minister of Ghana, and its offices are located in the Ministry of Defence, near Burma Camp and Kotoka International Airport (Accra).
The Common Services Establishment Committee was formed in January 1969 with the aim of creating a logistics brigade for the Ghana Army using auxiliary units. [5] In October 1969, the services and units were combined to form the Support Services Brigade Group, primarily for administrative efficiency rather than operational purposes.
The Ghana Navy (GN) is the naval warfare organizational military branch of the Ghanaian Armed Forces (GAF). The Ghanaian Navy, along with the Ghanaian Army (GA) and Ghanaian Air Force (GHF), make up the Ghanaian Armed Forces (GAF) which are controlled by the Ghanaian Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The Ghana Military Academy is the military academy of the Ghana Armed Forces. It offers basic military training to officer cadets from the Ghana Army, Ghana Navy and the Ghana Air Force. [3] The academy is based in Teshie in the Greater Accra Region. Entrance into the Ghana Military Academy is through a vigorous selection process.