Got hope lah

If just some of the ill-mannered kids grow up to become selfless heroes, like 2LT Kok Khew Fai, who is just 20, and has done something you think you only read about in books or see it in the movies.

If you haven’t already heard, the instructor-officer was accompanying his recruits at a live grenade throwing exercise when one of his recruits drops his grenade on the backswing instead of lobbing it forward, landing it about 4m behind where they’re standing.

There is about 5 seconds before the grenade detonates, and I’d like to think that both 2LT Kok and the recruit took this time to mutter a hellalotta expletives, as the young officer dived on top of the recruit to shield him from the detonation.

Dived on top of the recruit to shield him.

That’s selfless, even though the design of the grenade bay makes it quite hard to get hurt, apparently, unless you were to bang your head repeatedly against the blast-proof wall.

Mothers, quickly, instill this kind of behaviour in your kids – go make them clean up after themselves at the hawker centre.

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7 responses to “Got hope lah”

  1. littlecartnoodles Avatar

    Got honour also … 2LT Kok is Da Man …

  2. hyperX Avatar

    Generade…. dangerous man… he could get himself killed.

  3. lincoln Avatar
    lincoln

    That stupid recruit should be charged.

  4. Alfred Avatar

    This may be a stretch for some people.

    In the days before the concrete grenade throwing gallery, all there is a pile of sandbags to act as a shield. You throw the grenade into a pit.

    A recruit in a very similar situation, dropped his live grenade. The platoon commander next to him, fell on the the grenade. You know what happened next.

    Strangely this was left out in the ST article. Bloody typical.

  5. circuit boy Avatar
    circuit boy

    like that how to survive in singapore?

    a officer who wishes to rise in ranks (not by dying heroic-ly) throws the peasant on the grenade instead

  6. circuit boy Avatar
    circuit boy

    like that how to survive in singapore?

    a officer who wishes to rise in ranks (not by dying heroic-ly) throws the peasant on the grenade instead

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