Commandant is a title often given to the officer in charge of a military training establishment or academy. This usage is common in English-speaking nations. In some countries it may be a military or police rank. It is also often used to refer to the commander of a military prison or prison camp.
The Indian Army,the land component of the Indian Armed Forces,follows a certain hierarchy of rank designations and insignia derived from the erstwhile British Indian Army (BIA).
Lieutenant General Parami Sudammika Bandara Kulatunga,RSP,VSV,USP was a Sri Lanka Army general. He was serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army and its third highest-ranking officer at the time of his assassination. On the morning of 26 June,he was killed by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber who drove an explosives-laden motorbike into his staff car as it was driving to a military base at Pannipitiya near Colombo.
General Deshamanya Don Sepala Attygalle,was a Sri Lankan army officer,civil servant and diplomat. The longest serving Commander of the Sri Lankan Army (1967–1977),he went on to serve as the Permanent secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
The Sri Lanka Military Academy,commonly known simply as Diyatalawa,is the oldest military academy in Sri Lanka,and trains commissioned officers for the Sri Lanka Army. It is located in the garrison town of Diyatalawa in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. It has capacity to train more than 300 cadets.
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is a military university based in Kaduna,Nigeria,that trains officer cadets for commissioning into one of the three services of the Nigerian Armed Forces:the Army,the Navy,and the Air Force. The duration of training at the Nigerian Defence Academy is five years.
Lieutenant General Mark Evans,is a retired senior officer in the Australian Army. He was chief of joint operations from July 2008 until his retirement in May 2011.
General Tissa Indraka Weeratunga,VSV was a Sri Lankan general. He was the Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1981 to 1985 and the first General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Joint Operations Headquarters (JOH),he was later Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Canada from 1986 till 1990.
Robert Adeyinka Adebayo was a Nigerian Army major general who served as governor of the now defunct Western State of Nigeria,1966–1971. He was also Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army and was Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy.
General Shavendra Silva,is a Sri Lanka Army four star general who is the current Chief of Defence Staff,the head of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces serving from 1 January 2020. He also served as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 19 August 2019 to 31 May 2022. His other important appointments include,Chief of Staff of the army,Adjutant General and Director of Operations of the Army. During the Sri Lankan civil war he gained fame as the General Officer Commanding of the elite 58 Division. He had also served as the Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Headquarters.
General Shantha H.S. Kottegoda,WWV,RWP,RSP,VSV,USP is a retired senior Sri Lanka Army officer. He was the seventeenth commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1 July 2004 –5 December 2005. He had served as the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Brazil and Thailand. In April 2019,following the Easter Sunday bombings he was appointed as the permanent secretary to the Ministry of Defence.
Major General Devinda Kalupahana,RSP,USP,psc,SLAC was a Sri Lankan army general,who was the former GOC,3 Division;GOC,2 Division;Director Operations,General Staff and Commandant,Sri Lanka Military Academy.
General Lionel Piyananda Balagalle,,was a senior Sri Lanka Army officer,who served as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army and the Chief of the Defence Staff. He is known for formalising military intelligence operations within the Sri Lanka Army,having founded the Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Military Intelligence Corps.
General Chandrika Srilal Weerasooriya or 'C.S. Weerasooriya',RWP,RSP,VSV,USP is a retired Sri Lankan Army General. He was the 15th Commander of the Sri Lankan Army (1998-2000) and a former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Pakistan,Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (2000-2007)
Muhammad Inuwa Idris is a retired Nigerian Army major general who served as the 26th Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA). He was appointed Commandant on 26 December 2013 and succeeded as Commandant by Major General M.T. Ibrahim on 9 August 2015.
Major General Duleep Justin De Sliva Wickramanayake was a general of the Sri Lanka Army. He served as the Director Operations and Training of the Sri Lanka Army.
Major General Jagath Gunawardena,RSP,VSV,USP was a Sri Lankan senior army officer. He was the Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army,having served as the Commandant of the Volunteer Force,Commander,Security Forces Headquarters –Wanni and Master General of Ordnance. He served as the Colonel Commandant of the Sri Lanka Engineers.
Brigadier Edirimuni Tennison De Zoysa Abeysekara was a Sri Lankan military leader,who served as the Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army.
Major general Prasanna Chandrasekera,is a retired Sri Lankan Army general. He was the former Master-General of the Ordnance of the Sri Lankan Army,During the Sri Lankan civil war he was the Brigade Commander,65 Division of the Kilinochchi District.
Major General C. A. Mike N. Silva,VSV was a senior Sri Lanka Army officer who served as the Chief of Staff of the Army and the Commandant of the Volunteer Force. He was the first Commandant of the Kotelawala Defence Academy.
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