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officers in the command and staff course have for the Thai naval officers after graduation
an opportunity to visit East Asian region, from the RTNCSC are the United States, the
Middle East region, and Australia. Such visits United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain,
make them gain more knowledge and experiences Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Japan,

further from studying in the classroom. South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and
Additionally, the RTNCSC has established a Singapore. The majority of Thai naval officers
cooperation program to open 7 seats in the who graduated from such overseas naval
rotation for foreign naval officers from China, command and staff colleges have been positioned
India, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the as directing staffs and lecturers of the Office
Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, of Academic Affairs in order to transfer their
and Australia to study together with the RTN overseas experiences and knowledge to the

student officers every year since 2007. The program student officers of all post-graduate schools
is a part of confidence-building measures run by the NED. As a result, it provides a strong
to enhance good relationships between foundation for all student officers to participate
the Royal Thai Navy and such countries’ navy in the global community in the future.
as well as better understanding between Thai Sending the RTN Personnel for Overseas
naval officers and such countries’ naval officers. Job Training
It is also a foundation of peaceful coexistence The RTN also provides the overseas job
attitude in the global community for the training for its selected personnel, non-
student officers to work cooperatively in commissioned officers and commissioned

the future. Since 2009 the RTNCSC has run a officers, covering a lot of working skills such
bilingual program in the command and staff as naval operations, peace operations, logistic
course to improve English skills for volunteer support, marine engineering, medicine, and
student officers. This program also benefits administration. Most of the overseas job training
foreign student officers who face difficulty in is compliments from friendly countries such
studying in Thai at the beginning of the course. as the United States, Australia, Spain, India,
Besides, some student officers who graduate and Malaysia. The rest of them is technical

from the command and staff course are training included in the RTN weapon purchasing
awarded by the RTN to study more at the program from many countries so that the RTN
overseas naval command and staff colleges personnel could operate and repair those
or equivalent colleges every year which weapons efficiently. Those countries for
depends on the availability of those colleges. example are the United States, the United
Countries which alternatively offer those seats Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy,

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