PM stresses training for BAF personnel

CHITTAGONG, Nov 8 (UNB): Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina underscored Saturday the need for improved training for members of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) for attaining professional excellence saying they will have to develop themselves as efficient and ideal Air Force personnel.
"Attaining professional efficiency is very important for members of the Air Force as it increases self-confidence on one hand while helps earn fame and dignity for the organisation on the other," she said while addressing a function of awarding the National Standard to BAF Base Zahurul Haque here.
Alongside this, Hasina said, they will have to keep in mind the history and the supreme sacrifice of millions people for the country's independence.
Terming the country's Air Force as a traditional one, the PM said it has a glorious history of sacrifices during the country's great liberation war and its members with only one Alouette helicopter, One DC-3 and one Auter Biman fought with unprecedented efficiency against the occupation forces.
The nation will ever remember the courageous contributions of the Air Force officials, including those who performed their responsibility as sector commanders, she said.
Recalling the great contribution of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in developing the Air Force, Hasina said Bangabandhu collected supersonic MIG-21 and took massive initiatives to modernise it.