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President Tsai Ing-wen, center back, inspects a reservists training program for female recruits at a military base in Taoyuan yesterday. Photo: Ritchie B. Tongo, EPA-EFE
/ Staff writer, with CNA
President Tsai Ing-wen （蔡英文） yesterday inspected the fourth day of the first female voluntary reservist training program at a military camp in Taoyuan’s Yangmei District （楊梅）, expressing hope that more retired female military personnel would attend reservist training to demonstrate the nation’s resolve to defend itself.
The president, accompanied by National Security Council Secretary-General Wellington Koo （顧立雄） and Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng （邱國正）, watched a shooting exercise and listened to a briefing.
Tsai also handed out cash rewards to the reservists who voluntarily signed up for a refresher program.
Fourteen female volunteer reservists enrolled in the refresher program for women that started on Monday at a “strategic location” in Taoyuan’s Bade District （八德）.
The reservists have since undergone a chemical warfare simulation, and completed a 5km march and target training.
Tsai said that some of the reservists took time off work to participate in the training, while others left their children at home, describing these as concrete actions to protect the country.
The purpose of reservist training programs is to familiarize trainees with a range of wartime scenarios, and practice the military principle of being able to “mobilize and be combat-ready anytime, anywhere,” she said.
Mobilization not only improves the reserve forces, but also logistical work, Tsai said.
Tsai said the Ministry of National Defense must make adjustments and improvements to female reserve programs, expressing hope that more retired female members of the armed forces would join the programs.
“Taiwan is on the front line defending democracy, and [Taiwanese] regardless of gender must be united and demonstrate to the world our resolve to defend our country,” Tsai said.
She thanked the reservists who took part in the training and their families, saying that she hopes that when the program ends today, they would have each learned something.
Taiwan’s dual-track reservist training program consists of a five to seven-day program and a 14-day program, with 96,000 reservists needed for the first, and trainees for the second one to be raised from 15,000 to 22,000 this year.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
Reservist trainees practice shooting in Taoyuan’s Yangmei District yesterday. Photo: Tien Yu-hua, Taipei Times
