I heard that our 1st batch of SAF enlistees were trained by Israeli soldiers.
Please share if you know something about it.
It almost 40 years ago.
Go read lee kuan yew's memoirs.
At the time it achieved independence in 1965 however, Singapore's military consisted of only two infantry regiments, commanded by British officers and made up of mostly non-Singapore residents. The small nation, surrounded by its much larger neighbors believed that it needed a larger force. To that end, Singapore secretly contacted Israel, which sent military advisers who helped Singapore set up a defence force modeled in part after the IDF.[3]