The essence of joint military training with British Military Advisory Training Team is to introduce the military to contemporary training method.

The joint military training conducted with the British Military Advisory Training Team is aimed at modernising the initial training.

Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, made this known while speaking as the Reviewing Officer at the seventy-four Regular Recruits Intake Passing Out Parade (POP) held at Depot Nigerian Army, Zaria.

Buratai said this was to ensure they were introduced to contemporary training method and improvised explosive devise awareness training and survival skills to make them a strong force to be reckoned with.

According to him, this training is very important particularly given the security challenges currently confronting the nation.

He charged the newly graduated recruits to exhibit high sense of disciple, loyalty, integrity, selfless service courage and respect for others.

Buratai advised them to imbibe and retain the mental, physical and spiritual training given at Depot and others they would be exposed to at their respective units, formation and corps.

He said the security challenges confronting the country would soon be a thing of the past as necessary measures were put in place to achieve the set goal.

In his word, the institution provides a platform for the transformation of able bodied young men and women from civilians into combatant soldiers capable of defending the territorial integrity from all threats.

He said realistic training was the best means of preparing the Nigerian Army personnel toward achieving its goals as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Buratai lauded the efforts of management and the entire staff of Depot Nigerian Army for what he described as improvement in every aspect of realistic result oriented training.

The Army Chief who spoke through Chief of Administration, Nigerian Army, Major-General A. B. Abubakar, said he was without any hesitation to give support toward improving the standard of training and welfare of recruits and staff of Depot Nigerian Army and indeed the Nigerian Army in general.

Over two thousand nine hundred recruits graduated in the seventy-four regular recruit intake.