Passing-out Parade: SG addressed Passing-out Parade of DSTA 23rd Intake

Chairman of the State Administration Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Maha Thray Sithu Min Aung Hlaing addressed the Passing-out Parade of the 23rd Intake of Defence Services Technological Academy at the parade ground of DSTA in PyinOoLwin in the morning on December 10.

First, the cadet companies saluted the Senior General with slow-march past and quick-march past. The Senior General presented Best Cadet Award to Cadet No. 7888 Cadet Tin Myo Oo, Excellent Award in Training to Cadet No. 7964 Cadet Win Moe Thu, Excellent Award in Studies to Cadet No. 7902 Cadet Nay Htet Win.

In his address, the Senior General said comrades who are nurtured by Defence Services Technological Academy in line with the objective of “Producing qualified capable undergraduate, postgraduate and graduate engineer officers for Army, Navy and Air” are engineer officers and also young military leaders who will serve for the national defence duty during the period of peace or military operations, the military engineering corps is one of the armed forces that is taking part in troop movements, combat operations and building shelters of Tatmadaw in the military sector, supporting the aid of engineering skills and construction work.

The Senior General urged the cadet companies to address that the subjects you have learnt are just primary theories so you need to do further research and practice to become proficient in the field of technologies that you have learnt, to keep up with the evolving military science and technology while serving the main duty in the assigned areas.

You must perform to improve your ability by using Continuous Learning in the subjects that are beneficial for our nation and Tatmadaw. Mechanical engineering that is the key to the development of the transport and manufacturing sectors, civil engineering that is fundamental to the construction of roads, bridges, buildings, irrigations and dams, and electrical engineering that is the basis for energy needs and information technology, which are developed firstly and supported to improve the socio-economic life.

Therefore, Outcome-Based Education can be seen in each sector of an educational field which is a basic philosophy of the teaching and learning processes. The Quality Assurance system controls to maintain the quality continuously. In the sector of implementation, a Quality Assurance system is considered not only to emphasize the sector of teaching and learning but also to improve and sustain continuously in a long term.

Therefore, DSTA performed the study of Benchmarks comparison with the curriculums and educational aids of some international and local technological universities and also implemented the most basic and important processes of Accreditation processes according to the Myanmar Engineering Council Law, so engineering degrees of DSTA will be recognized soon at the Asia-Pacific level through the Myanmar Engineering Council. Then, the Senior General left the parade after taking the salute of the cadet companies. After the parade, the Senior General received the outstanding cadets at the parlour of the headquarters of DSTA and spoke words of honour.

In his speech, the Senior General said he took pride in the cadets’ outstanding awards similar to their parents. These are valuable awards won by hardworking along with the sixyear period and self-control. Parents are ordinary public service personnel and farmers. They had nurtured those cadets since their childhoods to date. They have to know the gratitude of the parents and repay the debt of gratitude to them and have to be loyal to the Tatmadaw as the second mother. They have to try hard along with their life as a good soldier for achieving their goals and their family’s goals.