400 reservists report for Army's 'toughest' training program

Taoyuan, March 6 (CNA) Around 400 reservists reported for duty at an elementary school in northern Taiwan's Taoyuan City on Saturday to begin a new, more intensified reservist training regimen dubbed the "toughest ever" in the nation, as the government tries to improve the combat readiness of the reserve forces amid rising cross-strait tension.

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