From 05 to 09 August 2024, the Training Centres (CI) and Temporary Training Groups (GTI) of the Armed Forces were gradually taken over by thousands of young Cameroonians, of both sexes, who were definitively admitted to the Defence Forces and, therefore, obliged to undergo there, for a few months for some, and two years for others, the training necessary for the proper exercise of the profession that would henceforth be theirs.
A total of eight teams from the Human Resources Department visited the sites set aside for the reception of these recruits, who were expected in large numbers. These teams had a twofold mission: to identify and collect additional data on the young recruits, which would be useful for subsequent induction operations, and then to make the recruits available to the management of the various Training Centres and Temporary Training Groups that had been activated: the Centre d’Instruction des Elèves Sous-Officiers based in Koutaba; the Centre d’Instruction des Forces Armées Nationales in Ngaoundéré; the Centre de Perfectionnement et d’Entrainement des Forces Armées Nationales in Ngaoundal; the Centre d’Instruction in Djoum; the Centre Spécialisé d’Instruction d’Application et de Perfectionnement du Génie Militaire in Douala; the Groupement Temporaire d’Instruction/Formation Elémentaire des Techniques Toutes Armes du BTAP in Koutaba; the Groupement Territorial d’Instruction/Formation Elémentaire des Techniques Toutes Armes du 11e BIM in Ebolowa and the Groupement Temporaire d’Instruction/Formation Elémentaire des Techniques Toutes Armes du 14e BIM in Bertoua.
These teams also ensured that the right candidate was given to the various CI and GTI commanders on the basis of meticulous identification, supported by an original identity document and an objective comparison of the information provided by the recruit with that available in the HRD database, which has been kept up to date since the start of the recruitment process and duly completed at every stage.
Coming from the four corners of the country and having first passed the various tests that punctuate the recruitment process within our Defence Forces, these young Cameroonians who will be moulded to respond effectively to the expectations of the High Command, as were their predecessors, will emerge with useful knowledge and a permanent spirit of rectitude and sacrifice for the higher interests of the Nation, bearing in mind the preservation of our achievements and, moreover, the protection of people and their property against any exogenous or endogenous attempts to destabilise our country.
On the whole, this operation to identify recruits, carried out jointly by teams from the HRD and other Ministry of Defence structures, went off without a hitch, marking the effective start of their initial training.
