Tag: SAF Day
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Butt Party* Fall In: 50 Years of SAF
Even if the last time any of our military units saw battle was before 1965 (Konfrontasi – 1SIR), I now realise been wrongly telling people that we don’t have a martial tradition. I think half a century of SAF makes it a tradition. Some of the operations the SAF have undertaken may not necessarily have…
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SAF Day
The last major training exercise I was part of was held in Shoalwater Bay, Queensland. On the night before the end of the exercise, (which was also an assessment known as ATEC that determines whether a combat unit is fit for operations) the communications radio in my armoured fighting vehicle crackled with a higher than…