CP OPENS MILITARY SHOOTING GROUND
CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY SUPREME COMMANDER SHAIKH SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA PATRONIZED TODAY THE OPENING CEREMONY OF BDF AL DHELA MILITARY SHOOTING GROUND.
HE WAS WELCOMED UPON ARRIVAL BY BDF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF GENERAL SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN AHMED AL KHALIFA, CHIEF OF STAFF MAJOR GENERAL SHAIKH DUAIJ BIN SALMAN AL KHALIFA, MILITARY SPORT FEDERATION SECRETARY COLONEL DAWOOD HUSSAIN AL MANA AND SENIOR OFFICERS. AFTER BEING OFFICIALLY GREETED WITH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, SHAIKH SALMAN UNVEILED THE PLAQUE DECLARING THE SHOOTING FIELD OPEN.
FOLLOWING SOME VERSES FROM THE HOLY QURAN, AL MANA GAVE A SPEECH TO MARK THE OCCASION IN WHICH HE EXTENDED THANKS TO THE CROWN PRINCE FOR PATRONIZING THE EVENT AND FOR HIS UNFLINCHING SUPPORT TO MILITARY SPORT. NEXT, SHAIKH SALMAN WATCHED A DEMONSTRATION BY BDF SHOOTING TEAM AS WELL AS A DEMONSTRATION OF ARMS AND MISSIONS BEFORE GOING ON AN INSPECTION TOUR OF THE SHOOTING GROUND. THE CROWN PRINCE AND SHAIKH KHALIFA WERE, THEN, PRESENTED WITH COMMEMORATIVE GIFTS AT THE END OF THE CEREMONY.
OPENING AL DHELA SHOOTING GROUND ALONGSIDE WITH OTHER MILITARY TRAINING ESTABLISHMENTS STEMS FROM A WISE TRAINING POLICY BASED ON A WELL-DEFINED PATH TRACED BY BAHRAIN DEFENCE FORCE, SHAIKH SALMAN SAID. PREPARATIONS WITH MODERN ARMS AND ADVANCED TRAINING IS THE PATHWAY TO MAINTAIN SECURITY AND STABILITY, HE ADDED STRESSING THAT THE OPENING OF THE MILITARY SPORT EDIFICE, WHICH COINCIDES WITH THE KINGDOM’S CELEBRATIONS OF BDF 41ST ANNIVERSARY, WOULD ADD VALUE TO BAHRAIN DEFENCE FORCE.
THE GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS MADE BY BAHRAIN DEFENCE FORCE OVER 41 YEARS IN TERMS OF TRAINING AND ARMAMENT, COUPLED WITH THE KINGDOM’S SOUND REPUTATION, BOOSTS THE LEADERSHIP’S BELIEF IN BDF AS A COMPLEMENTARY PART TO THE BAHRAINI SOCIETY, WHICH IS EMBODYING CITIZENS’ WILL AND ASPIRATIONS TO DEFEND BAHRAIN’S SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY UNDER THE WISE LEADERSHIP OF HIS MAJESTY KING HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA, THE CROWN PRINCE INDICATED.
THANKS TO GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE RELENTLESS EFFORTS OF BAHRAIN’S WISE LEADERSHIP, HEADED BY HIS MAJESTY THE KING, BAHRAIN DEFENCE FORCE HAS BECOME A BIG TITLE OF TRUE GIVING AND A LOFTY SCHOOL OF GENUINE NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS, SHAIKH SALMAN SAID.
IT HAS ALSO TURNED INTO A CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC EDIFICE EMBODYING THE LEADERSHIP’S VISION THAT PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY CAN NOT BE ACHIEVED UNLESS THERE ARE DEFENCE PILLARS, INCLUDING THE LATEST MILITARY EQUIPMENT, IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DEFEND THE NATION AND MAINTAIN ITS INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY, HE POINTED OUT.
THE CROWN PRINCE EXPRESSED THANKS TO THOSE IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT WISHING BAHRAIN EVER-LASTING SECURITY AND STABILITY UNDER HIS MAJESTY THE KING’S WISE LEADERSHIP.
PRESENT AT THE CELEBRATION WAS CROWN PRINCE COURT’S HEAD SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN DUAIJ AL KHALIFA.
