Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Le HongYi Fracas

"..the term ‘white horse’ was used to identify sons of influential persons to ensure that such enlistees were not given preferential treatment, and that medical classification and vocational assignment are scrupulously fair."

~~ Cedric Foo, ex Minister of State for Defence, 12th Nov 2003, explaining the classification for national servicemen in the Singapore Armed Forces, alleged for according certain special privileges to.



A junior Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) officer mass-mailed his letter of complaint to the top management in SAF, not forgetting to copy almost everyone else in some of the organization's internal mailing lists and was reprimanded for breaking the chain of command.

This caused an outbreak of discussions, be it online or around coffee tables recently.

He was touted as a self-less whistle blower. It is admirable he has the guts to speak up against the behemoth and escalate his grievance to the people up there.

But one little thing proves unfavorable against our princely hero.
He is the son of our leader.
He is supposed to be one of the elites.
That distant him a little bit from the common mass.

Then there were the critics of the young conscript, whom was considered brash and haughty for his action.

I would like to highlight some interesting points, beside the heavy local accent, found in come-back-kid, Rockster's blog .

It amazed me how careless and reckless some of our SAF officers are and was prompted to cast some doubt on them holding up the plots of our nation's defence.

To end this with a note of lighter mood, please enjoy Mr Brown's podcast.

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