Armed robbers on Tekong. No kidding
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Hmm, the soldiers with FBO and even brings along their ET blade and stick is kanna call up one.. When kanna call up, you grab everything marh.. where got time to customise your gear.. maybe they in ICT and going for exercise when suay suay load up tonners to Tekong..
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tts sort of like overkill rite?? having a crowd cluster somewhere where firing may occur - recipe for potential friendly fire?Originally posted by Viper52:Ch 5 showed UH-1s low over P Tekong, MAN 5 tonners loading up on civvie RPLs, LandRovers on LCU, and soldiers with SAR21s. The reporter has also reported the search is going on with NVGs and even a small number LSVs have been depolyed.
think our commander for this ops mus be feeling the heat. someone's prob breathing down his neck every minute, hence his desperation to send all his assets down. -
Nope - you got it right - it was SQ119.Originally posted by spencer99:pai seh... got the flight number wrong...
Just got word from one of my former compadres - the Boys in Black have been activated. It doesn't matter if they're carrying rifles, butter knives or toothpicks - they've triggered the alarm, and everything's SOP from that point on. Stiff sh*t. -
news got say SOF taking part mahOriginally posted by Gedanken:Nope - you got it right - it was SQ119.
Just got word from one of my former compadres - the Boys in Black have been activated. It doesn't matter if they're carrying rifles, butter knives or toothpicks - they've triggered the alarm, and everything's SOP from that point on. Stiff sh*t. -
my unit ambulance and medic was activated for the SQ119 thing....
he said there wasn't much of bodies left.. rather, it was mincemeat...
i don't think it'll be any different this time now that those guys have been activated...Originally posted by Gedanken:Nope - you got it right - it was SQ119.
Just got word from one of my former compadres - the Boys in Black have been activated. It doesn't matter if they're carrying rifles, butter knives or toothpicks - they've triggered the alarm, and everything's SOP from that point on. Stiff sh*t. -
I just got home from a business meeting, so all phones were off and this is the first I've heard about it. Looks like I'm behind the 8-ball here.
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Source: ChannelNewsAsia
Massive manhunt on Pulau Tekong for 3 armed robbers fleeing Johor
By Derek Cher, Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE : A massive manhunt was underway on Thursday on Pulau Tekong for three robbers, believed to be Indonesians, who are armed with a pistol and a shotgun.
The trio fled to the island, used by Singapore for military training, in a wooden boat after two robberies in Johor on Thursday morning.
The hunt on Pulau Tekong began at 9 am.
Heavily armed soldiers, police special force officers as well as a dozen sniffer dogs were sent to flush out the three armed robbers.
To stop them from escaping using the same boat in which they fled from Johor, the island was cordoned off by the Coast Guard.
And since 90 percent of Pulau Tekong is covered in dense forest, two helicopters also joined the manhunt.
The Police Coast Guard has also set up a command post at the jetty to facilitate the search operations.
At least one Malaysian patrol craft was also spotted in the waters just off Pulau Tekong.
"This group of robbers, one armed with a revolver and the other with a pump gun ... I believe they are dangerous," said Superintendent Tajudin Isa, Officer-in-Charge, Kota Tinggi District.
There is no housing on the island but there are two army camps, where most 18-year-old males do their three-month basic military training.
Training in camp is proceeding and only field training has been suspended.
"We recalled the trainees and recruits on the island back to camp. All of them are accounted for and safe. However, training is proceeding as normal because we are in control of the situation. What's happening now is that we've activated operationally trained soldiers," said Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Tan, Chief General Staff, HQ Infantry.
Right through the afternoon, more and more troops were deployed to Pulau Tekong to join in the manhunt.
By the evening, there were some 700 soldiers, police special forces and Gurkhas.
"To search for three people in a forested area is not easy," said Senior Assistant Commissioner Tan Puay Kern of the Singapore Police Force.
"Our soldiers are equipped with personal assault rifles. They are all trained to respond according to the situation."
To make things even more difficult, it also began to rain in the late afternoon, which slowed down the manhunt further.
The search began in the reclaimed area in the southern part of the island, where the robbers landed.
But by the evening, the focus had shifted to the heavily-forested central and northern parts of Pulau Tekong.
As it turned dark, troops had to use night-vision goggles.
"If we assess it is safe for our officers and the SAF officers to continue with the search, we will do so. If we assess it is not safe to do so, then we will stop the search, secure the area we have covered and then resume our search at daylight," said SAC Tan. - CNA -
THEY MAY BE SPIES OF MALAYSIA.....
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u din miss muchOriginally posted by Gedanken:I just got home from a business meeting, so all phones were off and this is the first I've heard about it. Looks like I'm behind the 8-ball here. -
wat!? not safe to search? even for our elite troops?Originally posted by nWo:Training in camp is proceeding and only field training has been suspended.
"We recalled the trainees and recruits on the island back to camp. All of them are accounted for and safe. However, training is proceeding as normal because we are in control of the situation.
"Our soldiers are equipped with personal assault rifles. They are all trained to respond according to the situation."
But by the evening, the focus had shifted to the heavily-forested central and northern parts of Pulau Tekong.
As it turned dark, troops had to use night-vision goggles.
"If we assess it is safe for our officers and the SAF officers to continue with the search, we will do so. If we assess it is not safe to do so, then we will stop the search, secure the area we have covered and then resume our search at daylight," said SAC Tan. - CNA -
then the malaysian police is gonna get shit for telling the SAF their MAF spies just landed in tekong right?
if you wanna say spy... more likely the MAF spies would be snooping near the jetty and see what assets SAF can send to tekong, number, size, type, time and possible command system. -
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Anyone can confirm if those soldiers in bush hats featured in the news are BRC troopers?
Latest news is that LSVs will be used.. -
not necessarily BRC troopers. adf and cdo troops oso can wear tt.Originally posted by IAF:Anyone can confirm if those soldiers in bush hats featured in the news are BRC troopers?
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wonder how much confidence building or dismantling this operation has done to our army...
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Well, I've seen my fellow Armament Techs wear that before in ICT..
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See - I said I was behind the 8-ball. Damn, that marathon meeting really has screwed my head up!Originally posted by Viper52: -
you are right...i came to my conclusion when i saw that one of the troopers has a LCP rank - which i believe doesn't exist in cdo - as well as the absence of any guardsmen tab. Also because of their skills in tracking?Originally posted by wuming78:not necessarily BRC troopers. adf and cdo troops oso can wear tt. -
they chose a wrong person to speak on the chann 8 news.
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got LCP ar?Originally posted by IAF:you are right...i came to my conclusion when i saw that one of the troopers has a LCP rank - which i believe doesn't exist in cdo - as well as the absence of any guardsmen tab. Also because of their skills in tracking?
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BRCs are not the only one skilled in "tracking?"....Originally posted by IAF:you are right...i came to my conclusion when i saw that one of the troopers has a LCP rank - which i believe doesn't exist in cdo - as well as the absence of any guardsmen tab. Also because of their skills in tracking?
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Hey, looks like it's an open-door invitation to everyone, so why not the BRCs?
I'm just waiting for Elmer Fudd to turn up now with his double-barralled shotgun, going "Shhhhh! Be ve-e-e-ewwy ve-e-e-ewwy quiet - I'm hunting wobbers!". -
I think Wil-E-Coyote has already been spotted in Tekong carrying a bundle of Acme Dynamite!Originally posted by Gedanken:I'm just waiting for Elmer Fudd to turn up now with his double-barralled shotgun, going "Shhhhh! Be ve-e-e-ewwy ve-e-e-ewwy quiet - I'm hunting wobbers!". 
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Originally posted by Gedanken:Hery, looks like it's an open-door invitation to everyone, so why not the BRCs?
I'm just waiting for Elmer Fudd to turn up now with his double-barralled shotgun, going "Shhhhh! Be ve-e-e-ewwy ve-e-e-ewwy quiet - I'm hunting wobbers!".
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i will be waiting in my gundam "PROVIDENCE"... if you guys needs me to vaporise tekong... just give me a call at 9413 8484.
