We also asked the CEO about the recent intake of BDF soldiers. He explained how and where these new soldiers will be deployed.
Francis Usher, CEO, Ministry of Defense
"Well 152 I believe soldiers passed out in that intake and we have another intake going in the 15th of March where the intent is to have at least another 150 passing out. So I don't, I like to read comments to get a feel of what the people are saying out there because you cant talk to everybody so I go on 7 news's comments on their page and see what people are saying. A lot of the comments were saying oh you cant put new soldiers on the border, that is not what we are doing so what we do is we replace the existing infantry soldiers which you go through infantry training in recruit training, we put them to take the place of the infantry soldiers that have the experience from another training and then we use those experienced soldiers to deploy to more tense locations. We are continuing to build the BDF the plan is to have 2 intakes a year for 3 straight years and that will get us what we believe is the necessary, the man power necessary or the necessary man power to conduct all of the operations, currently going on and what we foresee in the future."
