Do you think MINDEF will cover up
the commanders who made this NS man do exercises when he was on
MC? 
SINGAPORE: 20—year—old Private Joe Foo Wei Rong who died
at Lim Chu Kang Camp on Tuesday morning had been given three days
of medical leave on Sunday for a hamstring strain.
Relatives and friends learnt of this as they paid their last
respects to the full—time National Serviceman at the Ubi Teochew
Parlour on Wednesday afternoon.
Private Foo collapsed while doing chin—ups at Lim Chu
Kang camp. The Ministry of Defence said he was brought to
hospital where he died shortly after.
It’s learnt that Mindef is investigating why Private Foo
was training while on medical leave.
Private Foo will be cremated at Mandai Crematorium on Thursday
morning.
Many remember him as an athletic young man who liked to play
basketball.
Clifton Seah, the cousin of Private Foo, said: "I’m very
shocked. He was a fine young man. My brother was on the phone with
him barely 12 hours before he died. It’s a great loss." — CNA
Will they examine policies and
Standard operating procedures? Will they just take action against
the platoon commander and cover up cock ups in higher management?
Can MINDEF be trusted?
Or is Pte Foo expendable.......just another person to be stepped
on by those who grow fat on their superscale salaries?
TS...can u change ur name to Mr Who..?coz u don't give
intelligent questions at all...
maybe in this situation u should ask..can the men be trusted..?y
didn't the deceased excuse himself from the exercise..?who was the
commander in charge of the deceased..?
could there be more to be done to educate the men on the their
own safety...?
i juz hate the way u post ur question ready to blame people on
the higher level management..have u even serve NS yet...?u know
what's the significance of NS..?what role does the SAF play in this
country...?what's the bigger question here..?can u be trusted to
protect singapore in the times of uncertainty..?can u run the extra
km knowing that the lives of ur own family and wife and kids are at
risk...?or will u sit on the battlefield playing ur psp...?could u
as a top management of a big company protect every single employee
from getting fired if the employee don't even care about
themselves..?
and what expendable..?u think the saf realli treat their men as
expendable..?u ever saw foreign armies..?u're talking about the
army...the defence of the country..but if they think nsmen like us
are expendable..u think they will have a term called
"peace-time-training"..?then again..u should ask urself..do u treat
urself as expendable..?and..u know what is chain of command...?u
submit ur MC to ur form teacher or direct to ur principal..?or
direct to Minister of Education..?
it is a tragic loss..truly i feel it..but maybe we shouldn't
start blaming people for it..someone alive may hold a small
responsibility..but ultimately..we have to look deeper and still
open our eyes to the big picture...
and i forget to mention this in my previous post..i first
apologise to who it may concern..maybe the parents and friends
around him could have done more to caution him and warn him on such
health hazards..but who wans to get blamed..?
could u DR Who...?could u have done more to prevent his
fate..?should the blame be placed on u too..?
