Please conduct a fair and honest Board of Inquiry.
Please do not cover up for any mistakes made by the navy personnel ( regardless of rank, regular or not).
We want the truth.

We entrusted the young lives of our children to the service of country.They entered the service alive and left the service dead.

Please pay the family for the loss. Compensate them at least (the service and combat pay of a regular for 30 years).
Since NSF work and job scope is identical to a regular but the NSF pay is a least 1/3 of regular pay.

Please ensure the recommendations of the BOI can be adhered to. To prevent the loss of innocent lives.

As for deaths in the army. when i was in the army, i attended at least 3 formation funeral sentoffs. go figure that in a 2 year 4 month period.

i actually mean on NS and foreigners in SG…

But I agree on point 1,2,3 and 9…the rest in my opinion has other complications if we look macro scale…and how we want to measure achievability.

1st, I would cut my salary. I would probably pay myself no more than $200,000 a year instead of $3 million now.

2nd, I would not employ my relatives or the relatives of any ministers or MPs to top posts in government or non-governmental organizations. I would look for the best person for the job.

3rd, I would sack any minister who allows a handicap terrorist to escape from prison during his watch, even if he was married to my cousin.

4th, I would fight the elections fair and square, withot threatening or bankrupting my opponents.

5th, I would treat all workers, both Singaporeans and foreigners the way I would like to be treated.

6th, I would cut down on defence spending and help poor Singaporeans to lead decent lives.

7th, Singaporeans would get priority in everything and singaporean children would get maximum help so that each and every one reach their maximum potential. Bursaries will be given to needy student and no scholarships for the children of the elites.

8th, I would repeal the Internal Security Act (ISA) which allows arbitrary arrest and detention without trial.

9th, I would give NS reservist their just reward and make sure they don’t have to fear being discriminated against.

10th, Women will not be discriminated against for becoming pregnant. I will not just pay lip service to this. The full weight of the law will come down on any errant employers.

Dear Kian, maybe you could continue with the list.

Lets say for argument sake that we can a conflict with Vietnam. If we were to send our men out to fight, just imagine the damage that 50,000 Vietnamese men could do to our families here. It is ridiculous that we are still spending billions and billions of dollars on defence. The money would be better used by helping poor Singaporeans.

But the most ludicrous thing is that when our population hits 7 million, Singaporean males would probably account for 1 in 5 of the males residents here and yet we are expected to shoulder all the responsibility for the defence of this island.

Jobs for foreigners, NSF and possible death for Singaporean males.

MINDEF has also explaint the death of 2SG Ong Jia Hui and 1SG Shiva Mohan, LTA Lionel Lin…

Personal opinion – quite a few people equate serving NS to wasting time and money, however, surely there must be something gained although people are not really forthcoming to acknowledge it.