CONGO-KINSHASA: PASSING OUT OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS

Record ID: 230326

  • Title: CONGO-KINSHASA: PASSING OUT OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
  • Date: 25th May 1967
  • Summary: MEN MARCH IN PARADE; BRIGADIER GENERAL MASSIALA DECORATES MEN; MARCH PAST AND SALUTE Initials RGH/VS/JF/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th June 1967 13:00
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  • Location: KOKOLO, CONGO-KISHASA
  • Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
  • Reuters ID: LVAAV4RMFRSO9XEA7NHY7A3EVT0Z
  • Story Text: A GROUP OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS RECENTLY PASSED OUT A PARADE AT CAMP KOKOLO IN CONGO-KINSHASA. THEY WERE THE SECOND GROUP TO ANSWER THE CALL OF MAJOR-GENERAL STAMSO, THE BRIGADE GENERAL.

    THE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS RECEIVED THEIR STRIPES FROM BRIGADIER GENERAL MASSIALA, THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL CONGOLESE ARMY. SOME OF THE OFFICERS ARE MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN GUARD.

    A TOTAL OF 100 CONGOLESE ARMY OFFICERS WERE PROMOTED RECENTLY UNDER A DECREE PASSED BY PRESIDENT JOSEPH MOBUTU. EIGHT COLONELS WERE GIVEN THE RANK BRIGADIER GENERAL.

    BRIGADIER GENERAL LEOPOLD MASSIALA NOW HEADS ARMY 40,000 STRONG.
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