Screw that bastard lah. If he is not trained as a trainer, why
is he deployed as one, then?
Extracted from today's Straits Times:
Accused 'not sure' if he dunked trainee
A COMMANDO instructor accused of rashly causing the death of Second
Sergeant Hu Enhuai, 19, yesterday said he could not say for sure if
he had been involved in the dunking which led to the death of the
trainee.
But Lieutenant Jeff Ng Chin Fong, 27, said he was certain he did
not dunk another trainee, Captain Ho Wan Huo, 26, whose life he is
accused of rashly endangering.
Yesterday, Ng, the first of the four accused commandos to take the
stand, said he was very sure that none of the trainees he handled
on Aug 21 last year had collapsed after being dunked.
Both 2nd Sgt Hu and Capt Ho had collapsed.
Ng said he was sure he did not dunk Capt Ho as when he saw the
trainee, the man was already wet and being dragged back to the
water tub by another instructor.
Ng said he asked the instructor, Staff Sergeant Ng Chong Chee, who
the trainee was and if he had gone through the water phase. Staff
Sgt Ng gestured that the trainee was a captain and had already been
dunked.
He later found out there was only one trainee holding the rank of
captain, he added.
Ng was also sure he did not dunk him as he had been wearing full
gloves that day, whereas the instructor Capt Ho said had covered
his face had been wearing gloves with the fingers exposed.
He denied that he used his fingers to 'dig' into trainees' mouths
and nostrils while they were under water, pointing out the way he
dunked soldiers did not allow him to have a free hand to do
this.
The tub used in the dunkings of 2nd Sgt Hu and Capt Ho, he said,
was introduced because the old way of dunking - trainees lying on
their stomach and dunked in a washing bay filled with six inches of
water - led to facial injuries.
Like some of the instructors who have been on the stand, Ng also
testified that he had never seen the lesson plan for the course. He
had asked two warrant officers for it but was told they did not
have it.
In fact, said Ng, when Captain Pandiaraj Mayandi, 33 - another of
the accused - took over the Commando Training Wing, he asked for
all lesson plans to be handed in for an audit. But that one was not
among them.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Wee Soon quizzed Ng on whether he had
asked the supervising and conducting officers of previous courses
for the lesson plan.
'It's not my position to question my superior,' replied Ng.
He disagreed when the DPP pointed out that high-ranking officers
said the lesson plan was available and accessible to
instructors.
'At that time, this lesson plan was not made available to me. There
is a difference between being freely accessible and whether it's
available to me.
'If it's not available to me, how can I access it freely?'
The trial continues.
I wonder if this jerk is having a moeory lapse. Perhaps h e
needs a doctor to examine his head. 
