After entering Sunday the Minkama Training Center near Obala, they received last Wednesday their first outfits for intense individual training.
"The big ones will lose weight. The skinny will die. Does it follow? "Hard for the 2019 contingent of recruits to the Presidential Guard to forget those words. Warnings hammered as soon as they enter the grounds of the Presidential Guard Training Center in Minkama, about two kilometers from Obala in the Central Region. After the stage of the collective race in November 2018, they crossed the doors of this institution last Sunday. On the lists, there were a total of 641 expected to begin the transition from civilian to military.
634 answered this. At a safe distance, parents came to watch at this moment, under the freezing cold of the early morning and the hot sun of the afternoon.Man and woman, all had the skull of all hair at the entrance, as required by the entry rules for training. Reception and orientation, then separation from personal effects. A good fifty brought buckets and machetes. Money too. On site, everything has been prepared for these candidates.Only the piece of identity was mandatory.
Battalion Commander Hongbo Ndong Anicet, commander of the Training Center, personally ensured that nothing was missing at every stage. The hardest thing was when identifying. Although everything had started from the portal. The badly-dressed rookies were called to order, the latecomers were back on the ramps. In the ranks, some misplaced too. Some have confused the centers. Instead of Maroua, one ended up in Obala, while another was expected from Limbe. Inside, the identification process in itself was a training. Forbidden to laugh at chefs' jokes or dragging feet. There, future soldiers were in the making.
The recruits are then passed through the depollution box. "This step involves removing externally all that the candida can have on them. This workshop was set up because during the 2014 recruitment there was a cholera outbreak. They will then integrate the medical circuit where we take certain parameters and perform traditional examinations, "said Colonel Dr. Epanya Endale Fanny, head of the military medical center of the GP. At the last level of identification, the identity of the candidate selected during the selection and the one who came for the training was checked.
In the ranks, a dozen bad apples were accompanied to the exit. The others went through the brief medical examination.Monday and Tuesday, they received vaccines. Before going to Ndjoré, 45 km from Obala, for their basic training all weapons, the future Gpistes received Wednesday their survival equipment (outfit, sleeping bags, buckets, rangers, etc.).
Source: cameroon-tribune.cm