For a good part of his political career, PM Lee (as a DPM and
chairman of MAS) was commonly called BG Lee. Is anyone here 'old'
enough to know this?
He started his career as a career soldier or SAF regular at the
age of 19, when he was the first batch of five SAFOS scholars,
before he went to Cambridge University to study. BG Lee is best
known to have made BG at the age of 32. Of cos there were people
who during that time gossiped without substantiation that he made
BG at 32 because of who his dad was. Till today, most SAFOS only
make BG at their mid to late 30s, between 35 to 38, but no one made
BG at 32 again.
I chanced upon a closed thread dated 2000, in which an 'old
timer', someone quite old said that PM Lee, then in the SAF as a
young SAFOS, got his star because he took charge of the cable car
rescue operation that SAF undertook.
For the uninitiated, in the early 80s one Sentosa cable car
snapped off the cable line, with people inside. The cable car
didn't plunge right into the water, instead it dangled precariously
on the line swinging with people in it. Yes it sounds like a scene
out of an action movie, this is what I remember reading about it in
the 90s. I had no idea PM Lee was involved and in charge of the
rescue mission that SAF undertook. SAF also shot the terrorists
that hijacked an SIA plane in the late 90s.
Does anyone else know more, tell more?
http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/2817?amp%3Bpage=3&page=3