{"id":13596,"date":"2023-08-01T06:52:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=13596"},"modified":"2023-08-01T06:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:55:01","slug":"sri-lanka-navy-and-air-force-tighten-up-their-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=13596","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Navy and Air Force tighten up their ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"13596\" class=\"elementor elementor-13596\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-132e52e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"132e52e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4c33e60\" data-id=\"4c33e60\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56c06c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"56c06c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p>Twenty nine Student Officers of the 73<sup>rd<\/sup> Junior Command &amp; Staff Course (JC&amp;SC), four Directing Staff and the Admin Staff of the Sri Lanka Air Force Academy, China Bay, made its programmed visit to the Junior Naval Staff College of Naval and Maritime Academy on 31<sup>st<\/sup> July 2023. Being parallel courses which share common objectives, the main purpose of the visit was to uplift the interaction, share the experience and views among the student officers of Junior Naval Staff Course of the Sri Lanka Navy and Junior Command and Staff Course of the Sri Lanka Air Force.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">The SLAF delegation visited onboard SLNS Sayura and Fast Attack Craft P464 and also participated in an introductory presentation on Junior Naval Staff College at the Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda Auditorium.&nbsp; Subsequently, student officers of the 73<\/span><sup style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">rd<\/sup><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\"> JC&amp;SC and the 33<\/span><sup style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">rd<\/sup><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\"> Junior Naval Staff Course played a friendly cricket match at NMA Cricket ground with the enthusiastic participation of the Directing Staff, which further strengthened the bond between two sister forces. The cricket match showcased the sporting spirit, talents and camaraderie among the student officers of both Junior Staff Courses.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">The event was culminated by exchanging mementoes between the Directing Staff of both the courses under the guidance of the Commandant of Naval and Maritime Academy. 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Junior Command &amp; Staff Course (JC&amp;SC), four Directing Staff and the Admin Staff of the Sri Lanka Air Force Academy, China Bay, made its programmed visit to the Junior Naval Staff College of Naval and Maritime Academy on 31st July 2023. Being parallel courses which share common objectives, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=13596\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sri Lanka Navy and Air Force tighten up their ties<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes"},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13622,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions\/13622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}