hugh lim and tung yu fai(sp?), the current chief guards. u seem to
know alot. care to tell us where u coming from?
As in where I am from? Well i am not from the SAF you can be
sure, but one does not need to be from the SAF. You can be a
regular farmer LTA in SAF and only see dicks and take stabs in the
dark cos dicks are the only thing you see from your vantage
point.
Haha ok first BG Hugh Lim is Chief of Staff - General
Staff, not chief guards. And I believe when 'master' guessed
the contenders for COA and said "BG Lim", he meant Lim Teck Yin,
not Hugh Lim. Of cos I was aware who Hugh Lim was, everyone in SAF
knows him.FYI, Chief of Staff is a very high
appointment, (did you know he's practically one
step below MG Neo only? 
)
However, I think Hugh Lim is a bit old for COA position and its
been awhile since he got his one-star.
I didn't know who was Lim Teck Yin.
Tung may be chief guards but he is but a farmer. The COA
position will never be within reach to a farmer.
The previous COAs need not even be chief guards. Desmond Kuek
was armour, Lim Chuan Poh is infantry and Ng Yat Chung is signals
for heaven's sake. The common denominator among them is that they
are clever.
I wonder did you know about this well known knowledge going
about that Ng was competing against Lim for the COA position. But
because of Ng's size which posed as an 'image problem' for him, he
lost the COA position to Lim. Lim became COA. But of cos the race
was not over. Because at the that time, both were very young
generals in their 30s. And because Ng is undoubtedly brilliant, he
became the COA after Lim. :) The game is not over when one is
brilliant.
All I can tell you is that the COA since Lim Neo Chian onwards
has never been and will never be a farmer. There are (I estimate,
of cos since I'm not a regular i may not be 100% correct but I am
sure I'm close) high 20 something to 30 BGs so for them to put some
farmers as BG it's entirely possible but the COA position is way
too competitive. :) being in charge of some ndp parade is not a
show of brains and not enough for the perm secs and ministers. They
look for high IQ.
And COA has to be much cleverer than 'just' a
BG. :)