SAF suspends heliborne rappelling training after accident
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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces has suspended its heliborne rappelling exercises and is reviewing the system to ensure it is entirely safe.
The move came in the wake of the death of two servicemen on Wednesday night.
24-year-old commando First Sergeant Shiva Mohan and a foreign serviceman, whose identity has not been released, were injured during heliborne training at Sembawang Air Base.
They were given immediate medical attention and sent to the Singapore General Hospital where they were pronounced dead two hours later.
Second Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen stressed that the SAF takes training accidents seriously and would be introducing a safety time-out.
He said: "Safety time-out is a time whereby we give commandos material and safety messages for themselves as well as the men that they are leading in the training, to put more emphasis on safety.
"These (training) incidents must strengthen our resolve..... to look into our systems to make sure we have done everything to make sure that training is safe.
"We want to train as realistically as possible, but we also want to train as safely as possible." - CNA/ir -
not gonna comment on the issue...
but this evening when the dark clouds were hovering overhead, there was a nice hole in the sky and sunlight was streaming through it. Like rays falling down on the ground... and it looked like it was shining on where the men fell. -
First it was Combat survival course being reviewed following the dunking tragedy, now this. Might as well disband the SAF altogether.
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is it because of the new 2nd minister of defend. 1st is teo and now ng or eng.
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so u were around... SBAB happening sia..Originally posted by kopiosatu:not gonna comment on the issue...
but this evening when the dark clouds were hovering overhead, there was a nice hole in the sky and sunlight was streaming through it. Like rays falling down on the ground... and it looked like it was shining on where the men fell.