GMA Courses: Ghana Military Academy Programmes & Courses

GMA Courses: Ghana Military Academy Programmes & Courses
Ghana Military Academy (GMA) - Details of GMA

Are you looking for the list of courses available at Ghana Military Academy? The following is the list of available courses and programme offered at GMA.

GHANA MILITARY ACADEMY, GMA PROGRAMMES AND COURSES

THE REGULAR COURSE

The Regular Course is divided into two parts. These are the Standard Military Course (SMC) which is for a period of 3 months and the Regular Career Course covering a period of 12 months. The Regular Course, therefore, runs for a total of 15 months. The course now starts at the beginning of May and ends in

August the following year. The Regular Course is tri-Service during the SMC phase. The Army, Naval and Air Force Cadets continue with their appropriate special service training here in GMA after this phase. The Regular Career Course training includes 2 weeks of jungle training at the Jungle Warfare School at Achiase in the Eastern Region. The cadets also undertake a week of mountaineering at Amedzofe in the Volta Region. All graduating cadets of the Regular Course are granted Regular Commission into the Ghana Armed Forces.

THE SHORT SERVICE COMMISSION AND SPECIAL DUTIES COURSE

The Short Service Commission and Special Duties Course is a 6 month course run for direct entry Professionals and servicemen whose services are required by the Armed Forces as specialist officers. The course leads to a Short Service/Special Duties Commission in the Armed Forces. With the revised training regime, the course starts in February and ends in August the same year.

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTAKE

The training package is a compressed form or the Short Service Commission and Special duties Course. It involves twelve (12) weeks standard military training aimed at improving the military bearing, physical fitness, and leadership qualities among other virtues, in the officer cadets.

The training is made up of a four (4) week “Ginger” and an eight week post “Ginger” period. It includes classroom lessons and field exercises at Bundase, aburi Mountains, and the Michel Camp-Zenu-katamanso-Gbatsona general areas. Other tactical exercises are held in the Michel camp plains to rehearse the cadets in conventional Warfare. Introduction to jungle Operations is done at the Jungle warfare school at Achiase.

Barracks lessons covers tutorials in Drill, Fundamental officer Training, Leadership Training, Tactics, Physical Training, Skill at Arms, Field Craft, Service writing, Military Law, Map Reading, Voice Procedure, Organisation and Roles of the Ghana Armed Forces and Administration in Pace and War.

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27 Comments

  1. Please can i join the military academy without a certificate?lf yes please you let me know.This is my number 0554740557

  2. Please,how much will it coast for me to join the Ghana military academy?0555213431,in case of any information

  3. Please I want information about the admission procedure in the military’s academy

  4. Interestingly, my uncle also went through the academy. He was part of the 7th intake batch commissioned in 1963 by the President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. How I wish to track his professional prowess via this media.

  5. Please I’m a student at UPSA and will like to also enrol at the Ghana military academy.Please what are the requirements needed.

  6. good deal.But lecturers are not fit competent.call 0507041526 for classical evidence under 1974 evidence acts

  7. Please there should be a place on your website for us to see the names of soldiers who passed out of the military academy from 1961 to date, this is the only way the academy can be said to be complete , my father passed through the academy in the 60s ,so i want to see his mates, precisely 1963.

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