Gen Salim Saleh on
@mkainerugaba
: "I want to appreciate his services to the military for more than 20 years. But more specifically in areas where he defeated me. He defeated me in one area... you remember when Mzee [President Yoweri Museveni] almost took us to jail for...
... misdeploying... in Gulu... the story goes like this, for me, I'm a guerilla commander,... then '97, the commander-in-chief tells me he wants to form... a unit... so, he trains his 115 soldiers at Gulu airfield ready for deployment, and it was his unit, supposedly, so when...
... he had gone to Kampala, there was a chance for me to [take over]... so, when Mzee came back, he asked me, where's my unit and I said I have deployed it... You remember in one of his High Command documents, he said he'll never forgive me... for misdeploying the unit. After...
... that, that's when
@mkainerugaba
came in and conceptualized the Special Forces Command... which all of you now know. But for us in our generation, we were on... conventional actions... You've put in a lot for that type of work, special forces, combined arms... So, MK we...
@KampalaPost
@mkainerugaba
Major Ndibowa if he is still alive of UA applied this combined arms element in 1979 so it is not new as some would wish us to believe. Only that they may not have known about it. And all commandos under go paratroop training and UA had many of them. MK project just!