By Idibia Gabriel
The commandant, Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), AVM John Chris Ifemeje, has charged the students to be focused and fully committed to achieving good results from Exercise Sea Lion 2014.
Ifemeje, who gave the charge at the opening ceremony of the exercise in Kaduna, said the Exercise Sea Lion was the final training exercise for senior course of the AFCSC in Jaji.
He said Exercise Sea Lion “is the combined and joint operational exercise which marks the culmination of the operational packages and seeks to integrate all that students have learnt during the course.”
He also said as future operational commanders, students were required to understand how to skillfully employ military forces to attain operational level objectives, “which in turn contributes to the attainment of the strategic objectives which involved the design, integration, conduct and management of campaigns and operations.”
Ifemeje added that the Exercise Sea Lion served as a tool for student to practise and consolidate their knowledge in that regard and provide them the opportunity to plan, conduct and decide on the employment of land, maritime and air assets in combined and joint setting.
He said the series of presentations and lectures in the college programme, as well as the experiences generated during the past exercise would equally help to further prepare student for the planning and conduct of the exercise, “especially during the electronic and manual war games.”
He, therefore, urged the students to ensure that their experience in the exercise counted, stressing that it was a rare opportunity of conducting the exercise with student officers from other sister African countries.
