R.O.C Military Academy celebrates anniversary with military flybys

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/16
By: Joseph Yeh


Taipei, June 16 (CNA) The Republic of China's top school for cultivating military talent, the R.O.C. Military Academy, organized military aircraft flybys and a parade of ground troops to celebrate the 95th anniversary of its founding on Sunday.

The celebration, held at the academy's Kaohsiung base and presided over by Defense Minister Yen De-fa (嚴德發), opened with flybys of Army helicopters, including OH-58D scout helicopters, AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopters, AH-64E Apache helicopters and UH-60M Black Hawk choppers.

Navy CH-47SD and S-70C helicopters and the Air Force's Thunder Tiger Aerobatics Team (雷虎小組) with its AT-3 jet trainers also took part in the maneuver to say happy birthday to the academy.

On the ground, a parade featured cadets from the Army, Air Force and Navy academies and National Defense University, as well as soldiers from the Army's 333 Mechanized Infantry Brigade. 
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