Singapore Border Patrol..
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ok i happened to be on a sembawang beach facing johor..
saw 1 police car..followed by a jeep with open top mounted with a gun with a brown color butt..
1.Are they armed with LIVE rounds?
2.What do they do?
3.Catch illegal immigrants?
4.Do NS man do it or full time pple do it?
How come i don't see any of RSN corvettes other then PCG??
Border patrol is pes what ar??
and btw..which vocation they do? -
Actually they're doing duty for sembawang wharf.
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Aiyoh... what border patrol... They're NS 'uncles' from PDF lah... People's Defence Force or Please Don't Fight... They're usually older reservists that are about to stand down... That gun is a L7A4 GPMG.... General Purpose Machine Gun... Yes, it has live rounds and what they do is protect important installations like naval base and US troops due to Sept. 11...Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:ok i happened to be on a sembawang beach facing johor..
saw 1 police car..followed by a jeep with open top mounted with a gun with a brown color butt..
1.Are they armed with LIVE rounds?
2.What do they do?
3.Catch illegal immigrants?
4.Do NS man do it or full time pple do it?
How come i don't see any of RSN corvettes other then PCG??
Border patrol is pes what ar??
and btw..which vocation they do? -
Hey!! I saw them too....I was doing beach cleaning last month there...
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saw them since last, nothing to worry about, just security
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Isnt that GPMG on the jeep a FN MAG?
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It is a L7 GPMG, M240B/G, FN Mag.They are the same.UK, US, Belgium in the same order.Our L7A4 is the same version as used by the USMC, without the heat guard of the M240B.
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My answers to ur questions,Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:ok i happened to be on a sembawang beach facing johor..
saw 1 police car..followed by a jeep with open top mounted with a gun with a brown color butt..
1.Are they armed with LIVE rounds?
2.What do they do?
3.Catch illegal immigrants?
4.Do NS man do it or full time pple do it?
How come i don't see any of RSN corvettes other then PCG??
Border patrol is pes what ar??
and btw..which vocation they do?
1)-Yes, the army pickup which is armed with a 7.62mm GPMG and up to ** of lives round.
2) Since the 911, the police and saf joint patrol our coastal area like East Coast Park, Sembawang Park, Jurong island etc etc. What they do? I can say that if they come upon terrorist holding SAM or other deadly weapons, the guy holding a GPMG will fire at them like a mad man while the police will radio for help......
3)No.
4)Can be NSF or NSmen. -
So what generally does those uncles do?Originally posted by Cpl Ho:Aiyoh... what border patrol... They're NS 'uncles' from PDF lah... People's Defence Force or Please Don't Fight... They're usually older reservists that are about to stand down... That gun is a L7A4 GPMG.... General Purpose Machine Gun... Yes, it has live rounds and what they do is protect important installations like naval base and US troops due to Sept. 11...
why send out old pple instead of young guys
is it sufficient to kill those terrorist?
u all also mentioned about terrorist holding SAM...from what i know..
the jeep is lightly armoured..
So WHAT if..the terrorist holding SAM after discovering that the jeep has spotted and firing at him..
takes cover and fires his RPG at the jeep?
What do u think will happen to the pple sitting inside? -
If you are holding the SAM, by the way SAM is - surface to air missile, you better drop it and run. !!! Sam usually is design to arm after at least 300m or more , also it is not design to be use as a any vehicle weapon, it guidance system will be nuts and confused which mean the chances of it hitting the jeep is so small and doing any damage is small.Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:So what generally does those uncles do?
why send out old pple instead of young guys is it sufficient to kill those terrorist?
u all also mentioned about terrorist holding SAM...from what i know..
the jeep is lightly armoured..
So WHAT if..the terrorist holding SAM after discovering that the jeep has spotted and firing at him..takes cover and fires his RPG at the jeep?
What do u think will happen to the pple sitting inside?
Even with a RPG, with a GMPG firing at you........ you die first . Think you see too much rambo, you think you can take RPG and the GMPG round just miss you as you slow motion aim and fire the RPG ... without the rounds hitting you..... go back and watch you movie..... -
i wonder if singapore got train up like specialised group of pple to be like Sylvester Stallone in the Rambo..
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Individual exploits are myths and creations of Hollywood fantasies. In the REAL world, everything depends on TEAMWORK.
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Where were you when they were giving out brains?Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:i wonder if singapore got train up like specialised group of pple to be like Sylvester Stallone in the Rambo..
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Why need people like them when we can have the Nemesis program?Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:i wonder if singapore got train up like specialised group of pple to be like Sylvester Stallone in the Rambo.. -
DUH!! I always thought our GPMG was an illegal copy based on the FN/L7 series. the US M240 is a more recent 'lightened' version of the same? In any case the SAF GPMG has been around for some 20+ years already.Originally posted by LazerLordz:It is a L7 GPMG, M240B/G, FN Mag.They are the same.UK, US, Belgium in the same order.Our L7A4 is the same version as used by the USMC, without the heat guard of the M240B.
What original post referred to is the POI prowl patrol for certain (unnamed) facilities. We have the same on Jurong Island (see recent telecast series on TCS). For the record 2PDF is not made up of all uncles.
Just that main source of warm bodies are 'misfits' who are not from complete mono intake NSF units. Former Instructors, RP. Ammo, VR Mechanics, Armourers, other Technical, etc. all the 'ca-lar-fair' who ROD individually (not en-mass). Our Reservist time no picnic either. Still do Fire & Movement, dig trenches, etc. Now flavour of the month is POI (protection of installation). -
FYI, the USMC's L7 GPMG is the U.K's version but its now use mainly as a crew weapon. Troopers usually carry the M240( FN Mag ) or M60 GPMG( U.S.A ).
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btw RSN CORVETTES dun goes for patrol but the APV and PV goes for patrol...Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:ok i happened to be on a sembawang beach facing johor..
saw 1 police car..followed by a jeep with open top mounted with a gun with a brown color butt..
1.Are they armed with LIVE rounds?
2.What do they do?
3.Catch illegal immigrants?
4.Do NS man do it or full time pple do it?
How come i don't see any of RSN corvettes other then PCG??
Border patrol is pes what ar??
and btw..which vocation they do?
And there are hell lots of patrol for them... Everyday, there are a patrol ship outta there and a standby... While next yr onwards, there will be 2 at each day... While the PV/APV dun only patro but goes for exercise too... so u know how siong it is???
btw the johor straits or the narrow channel between sg and malaysia is patrol by pcg i think n it dun really need a rsn ship to patrol there lah...
the RSN will patrol SG straits and further down till the opening south china sea... -
POI rotates through out the units of the SAF