Prensa Latina reports over 1,400 young officers graduated and will join the Cuban Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias) as military sciences graduates and engineers in different branches.

Cuban Vice President, José Ramón Machado Ventura, and Julio Casas Regueiro, General of the Armed Forces and Minister of FAR, chaired the military ceremony held in the historical Plaza de la Revolución.

Commissioned officers were cadets, coastguards and students from superior and technical military teaching centers of the country who graduated in promotion 55th Anniversary of Moncada Garrison Attack.

The new officers, when taking the oath, expressed their commitment to firmly defend and safeguard the sovereignty and independence of the nation, and to follow the patriotic traditions of the Cuban people.

The present young officers’ graduation takes place at a time when the world is living a difficult, complex and uncertain situation, stated Joaquín Quinta Solá, General of the Armed Forces and Vice Minister of FAR.

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Cuba’s Central Army commemorated on Friday its 47th anniversary. A politico-cultural ceremony took place at the Defense Preparation School in Matanzas presided by Army Corps General (Lt. General) Joaquín Quinta Solá (Chief, Central Army), presidents and vice-presidents of the Defense Councils of the five provinces comprising of respective commands.

A military review was held with blocks of infantry, tank, and artillery units, Special Troops, Revolutionary War Navy, Ministry of Interior, sharpshooters, Camilitos, units of the MTT (Territorial Troop Militias) and Production and Defense Brigades.

Source: AIN

[Photo: Central Army military review, 2005.]

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