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Members of the FALINTIL-FDTL Headquarters Conducted Forced March Exercise from Nasuta to Tasi Tolu

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
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Falintil-FDTL Activity Lenses

Headquarters, 17 December 2024
Today, the chaplain of FALINTIL-Forsa Defesa Timor-Leste (F-FDTL) Captain Rui Gomes together with Father Florentino Gil, SDB of Salesiano, reflected and confessed to the members of FALINTIL-Forsa Defesa Timor-Leste (F-FDTL). FDTL) before the sunset of Christmas and New Year.
The activity took place in the auditorium of the F-FDTL Headquarters, Fatuhada, Dili.
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Eight members of Falintil-FDTL completed the English language training course level V in Metinaro

Metinaro, December 18, 2024
Eight members of FALINTIL-Timor-Leste Defence Forces (F-FDTL) completed the English language training course V at the Comandante Nicolao Lobato Training Center, Metinaro today.
The General Commander of the Support Force, Colonel Celestino Pinto 'DAELEBA', said that eight members of FALINTIL-Timor-Leste Defence Forces (F-FDTL) (today they have already passed the English level from level I to level V)
“Our cooperation with Australia and Portugal because Portugal is part of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and Australia we must know English because we are part of the multilateral with America, Australia and Japan including Malaysia so we must know English and Portuguese. " said the General Commander of the Support Force, Colonel Celestino Pinto “Daeleba”, after distributing certificates to the members.
“We must learn English when we go to countries with which we cooperate multilaterally and we are going to work abroad. We must know English and Portuguese and not only that, but for the Chief of Staff course we must know the English language.”
“In the academy and in the training courses, we must know English to go to Australia and America, including other places that we have to determine our academy this year or next, we must plan like this because this is your preparation before you go.”
The institution prepares you in English not only in Metinaro but also in the Land Component, Naval Component and also Light Air Component, which began to be prepared well before coming to CICNL.
"I ask the junior officers to prepare for peacekeeping because now we are in South Sudan, including Lebanon, to prepare well and the course for the Chief of Staff and the course for military observers, so they must learn and know the English language, master the subject if they do not master it will be a problem for us.
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F-FDTL Members Complete Journalism Training At Ceftec

Dili, CNE Hall, 13 December 2024.
Six members of the FALINTIL-Timor-Leste Defence Forces have completed their Journalism training at the Technical Training Centre in Communication (CEFTEC).
The certificate award ceremony for three hundred and eighty-three (383) trainees, from Unit Seven including Protocol and Public Relations, was held at the CNE Liquidation Hall, Colmera, Dili.
Although the 6 members are from Units and Components including Headquarters, the training received at CEFTEC is the same in the Television, Multimedia, Protocol and Press Writing Units.
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Lieutenant General F-FDTL participates in TNI Anniversary ceremony

Lieutenant General F-FDTL participated in the ceremony of the 79th Anniversary of the TNI in Monas, Jakarta.
Jakarta 05/10/2024, Chief of Staff General FALINTIL-Timor-Leste Defense Force (F-FDTL), Lieutenant General Domingos Raúl 'FALUR RATE LAEK' participated in the ceremony of the 70th anniversary of the Indonesian National Army (TNI) he (79).
The 79th anniversary of the Indonesian National Army (TNI) was celebrated at the National Monument (Monas) Cross Field in Jakarta on Saturday, 05/10/2024, led directly by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as inspector of the ceremony. while as many as 100,000 soldiers paraded Military, from three dimensions and commanded by Major General Djon Afriandi he was the commander of the Military Parade for the ceremony.
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F-FDTL To Play Championship With Australian Force In 2024

Brisbane Australia, 5 October 2024.
FALINTIL-Timor-Leste Defense Force (F-FDTL) through DCP hold championship game with Australian Defense Force in 2024
The Army Championship Game was held at the 7th Brigade Gallipoli Barracks Brisbane, with the objective to further strengthen cooperation or ties of friendship between the Armed Forces of Timor-Leste and the Australian Forces.
In the friendly game went very well and showed tactical game to each other until finally the men's team F-FDTL managed to defeat the team Forsa 16° Brigade and the women's team F-FDTL lost to Forsa 16° Brigade.
Meanwhile, players from the women's and men's teams of F-FDTL totaled forty (40), with 1 liaison officer from Australia, composed of 18 women and 18 men. in-4, the jog is held every year in Australia.
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