Likisa, 19 December 2024 Members of the FALINTIL-Timor-Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL) Headquarters today conducted a Forced March exercise 'Lao Ain' from the Nasuta Tibar District, Bazartete Administrative Post, Likisa Municipality, ending in Tasi Tolu, Dili. In an interview, the Chief of Operations of the FALINTIL-Timor-Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL), Colonel João da Costa Esteves, said that the F-FDTL Headquarters conducted this forced march exercise from Nasuta to Tasi Tolu. “Today we conducted a forced march from Nasuta to the headquarters as a program that is part of the annual matrix operational training. said the Chief of Operations of FALINTIL-East Timor Defense Forces (F-FDTL), Colonel João da Costa Esteves. “This Forced March is not carried out by the Headquarters, but each Component and Unit has its own program including other exercises that we started in January until the end of this year. The march aims to psychologically test all the Armed Forces and individually and also to look at the esprit de corps and the spirit of camaraderie of all the military personnel who march and do other exercises. “In this Forced March, the command can assess whether the military personnel have strong morale and should have a spirit of camaraderie and esprit de corps or not, it can also measure the health of each military personnel in order to provide operational protection for a military personnel who participates as an area of defense is physically untrained, but how can they guarantee their mission that is enshrined in article 146, therefore it is necessary for our forces to provide physical and moral protection to all our military personnel.” Today, around one hundred members of FALINTIL-East Timor Defence Forces (F-FDTL) participated in this Forced March Exercise carried out by the Military Police Unit (PM) and a section of the Headquarters Support Unit. end F-FDTL Media