The Army in a drive to recruit 30,000 youth during the year has recruited a record number of youth within the first half of the year, a top military official said.
“Some 19,000 youths have been recruited by the Army so far this year,” Military Spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe told the Daily Mirror yesterday.
He said once the latest recruitment drive was over, the Army would recruit another batch of 7500 youth by the end of this year.
“This eagerness to join the army clearly shows the youth’s desire to wipe out terrorism from the country,” the spokesman said. He said recent military victories in the east had encouraged the youth to joining the force.
He said each youth would receive four and half months training at military training centers and would be deployed countrywide to meet the existing need.
(http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/08/01/front/05.asp)
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