ABU DHABI // Lt General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, visited a training centre for land forces this week.
He was received at the centre by Lt General Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithi, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Major General Saleh Mohammed Mujrin Al Ameri, Commander of the Land Forces, and a number of senior armed forces officers.
Sheikh Saif was briefed on the centre’s capabilities and toured its different sections. He also watched part of the exercises conducted there by the different land forces units, reported Wam, the state news agency.
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if you go
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The trip
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