Sat 14 Feb, Valentine's day for couples all over the world to express or re-express their loves for their next halves.
Sunday 15 Feb, a Total Defence day of the nation. It is hard to come by with the consecutive run of the 3 days that are being placed in line together.
"What will you defend?", a tagline marked for this year's total defence. Total defence, with five aspects namely, social, psychological, economic, civil and military. This is the 25th yea
rs of the Total defence day.Our Organisation had organised our first Ladies self defense at CSC Tessensohn,a 3 hours basic workshop for the ladies. The theme planned by myself was the "Valentine's morning self-defense". However,forgotten about 15 Feb, i could have made it more relevant; To set it on Sunday, a Self defense for ladies, to play part of the Total defence.
So what will you defend? As a patriot, and once a Commando, and in the Auxiliary Police Force, the first common thing that comes to my brain was, to defend the country? To defence our nation's security? Well, however there are many immediate avenue of vulnerability in our lives that we need to tap on, to strike a balance, than to just keep ourselves focus on defending
one point, and forgot about our back, or anywhere where there may be a loophole for a kill that we forget to cover ourselves from. So I will defend 2 points, which is myself pychologically, and my family. If u were to be able to defend yourself psychologically, u will have no problem in defending ur family, or the nation. I'll let u play with the logics.In the investments for the military defense, a long term defence planning and capability build up become clear when one considers that the combat capabilities deployed for various missions took years of steady investments to raise, train and sustain. The theme " We dare" is the slogan for our SAF Commando Special Operations Force(SOF), one of the Commandos Formation's Elite Unit, with a Special breed of men, a cut above the rest".
A case where the SOF stormed Singapore Airlines flight SQ 117 at Changi Airport on 26 March 1991 and saved 123 crews and passengers. Four Pakistani Hijackers had de
manded for the release of their compatriots from jail, and if demands were not met, 1 hostage will be killed every 10 minutes. They gave the authorities a short 5 minutes to decide what to do. With that,the authorities need less than that timing. With 3 minutes into the countdown, the SOF settled the issue. The zealous SOF Commandos stormed the Airbus and withine 30 seconds, shot dead all four Pakistani hijackers. Perhaps the Pakistani Hijackers had undermined Singapore's Counter-terrorism preparations, and thus was ownself outwitted. At that time, the Police STARs were heard to be there as well, to standby and lent their secondary support.The operation codenamed Thunderbolt, marked the 1st time the SAF resolved a hijacking with deadly force.
Total defence is of paramount important. Looking at the crisis in the recent years,such as SARs. A combine effort of pulling together as a nation psychologically, working to keep the economy running and living together as a cohesive, gracious and compassionate society helped the nation combat and overcome the challenges of the situation.
The civil defense is also task to do front line rescue missions on any situation t
hat may arise, such as fire break out, building collapse, where search and rescue teams are highly ultilised. The SAF has also sent their Construction Engineering Team(CET) of soldiers to Afganistan to help facilitate in supervising the constructions of schools and the medical team to assist in the Medical Care centre in Afganistan. The Police are important in upholding law and security, and response to immediate crime situations of the society. The Prison, a place of rehabilation, trains and equip inmates with relevant skills and study, added good point for them to have a new lease of life when release.Every objectives of the forces are good and contributes to the good will of our Singaporeans.
I'm neverthelss proud of our Singapore's government's planning and objectives, and hope that in times to pass, we come together and overcome this period of recession.
