I read the article in the New Paper today... frankly I think
they are overreacting...maybe they need to find other ways of
selling more papers after the Jack Neo saga died down.
Selling rifle parts is illegal, fair enough, but what's with the
hoo ha over kevlar helmets and LBV? Given virtually all ORDed male
Singaporeans have it at home, being able to get it at beach road
isn't exactly a breach in security. It's just overreacting.
If you want to go law by law, it is illegal to sell anything
with "property of SAF" on it outside of E-Mart. This means that
even your Number 4, Jockey Cap, field pack and what have you not
should not be sold at all.
As I said, overreacting. Our military security isn't compromised
if Beach Road sells these non-dangerous items, and as a matter of
fact it improves the efficency of our forces, not to mention Beach
Road is an intergral part of the NS experience. Whoever wrote and
edited the new paper article really needs some perspective.
If IBA becomes standard, then expect to see it in beach road...
if the body armour plates are sold then yes, that's a security
problem. But frankly Beach Road is useful in the sense that I want
to field-mod an extra pouch on my LBV and E-Mart is closed... they
are very helpful... the article in the New Paper is quite unfair to
them.