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GOC Southern Command Visits 1 Field Workshop

• 20 Jun
• Admin

General Officer Commanding (GOC) Southern Command, Brig Gen Isaac Nicholas Paintsil, has paid a familiarisation visit to 1 Field Workshop in Burma Camp on Thursday, 19 June 2025. The visit formed part of the itinerary of the GOC's operational and familiarisation visits to all units and Forward Operating Bases (FOB) in Southern Command Areas of Operational Responsibility (AOR). The visit also aimed to give the GOC, who assumed command in May this year, the opportunity to acquaint himself with the units under his command, meet and interact with troops, as well as receive actual information on the various activities conducted by the units in support of military operations. The Officer Commanding (OC) 1 Field Workshop, Capt Christopher Ampaabeng Appiah, received the GOC at the Unit and provided a thorough brief of the operational, logistics and administrative state of the field workshop. He indicated that, even through numerous challenges, the Unit has tried to fulfil its mandate of repairing and maintaining all equipment on charge to Headquarters Southern Command and units under command over the period.The GOC, Brig Gen IN Paintsil was conducted around the workshop infrastructure in the Unit, where he inspected and observed some mechanical and electrical engineering equipment possessed by the Unit. At a durbar with all ranks in the unit, Brig Gen IN Paintsil praised the important role the 1 Field Workshop plays in support of command operational activities.He indicated that the Military High Command was working tirelessly to retool and equip all units in the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), to resolve the operational, administrative and logistical shortfalls in the Army.GOC entreated Officers, Soldiers and Defence Civilian Staff to desist from acts such as illegal one-man operations and recruitment fraud, that seek to put the hard-earned reputation of the GAF into disrepute, and remain disciplined and work diligently wherever they may be deployed.