A parade to remember

last SG · 2005-04-09T13:02:25+00:00

Agree with u that SAF day was the worst....i took part in 2 SAF day parades. The rehearsals were quite siong for 2004...the funny part is, when the parade RS...

Gordonator SG

any memorable parade u all have taken part in as a marching contingent? feel free to share with us your experiences here. Mr. Green

kops21 SG

1) GOH for Youth Day
2) GOH for NCC Day
3) SAF Day Parade
4) GOH Istana

peeing in Istana Garden. Laughing

kwlee SG

Originally posted by kops21:
1) GOH for Youth Day
2) GOH for NCC Day
3) SAF Day Parade
4) GOH Istana

peeing in Istana Garden.

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Shocked

lol...

good try Wink

din got caught by nathan? Laughing

kops21 SG

Laughing no worry, not during nathan tour of duty.

deathscythe99 SG

PoP Marching counted or not? Mr. Green

Gordonator SG

here's my memorable parade. today is the 38th Combat Engineers' anniversary. i together with few of my friends were involved in representing our unit in marching in one of the contingents.

fortunately for us, the parade RSM 1WO Lau from 39SCE was very nice, he didn't scold us for any mistakes. in fact the only person doing all the shouting and correcting our drills was the Formation RSM. so it began, countless marching and 'ho ma sen jia ta'...

and so for the past 2 days, we rehearsed under the hot sun. all of us involved was getting terrible sun burns on our face and arms. everyone looked funny after taking off their berets, with white foreheads and faces red as apple. Mr. Green

sadly this evening when the parade was about to be commenced, it started to rain (with lighning too). at first i thought the parade was to be cancelled, a pity considering 2 days of everyone's hard work wasted. but as garang engineers, the show must go on. the parade was to be started on time, even if it means in the rain. the spectators from the various engineer units were supportive too. they sat and watch the whole parade in the rain.

luckily, by the time the Chief of Engineers COL Teo and COA arrived, the downpour turned to a drizzle and the parade continued smoothly. this was truly a memorable parade for me as this was the first time and probably last parade that i will be involved in since i'll be ORDing soon (the BMT POP parade was not memorable as i didn't rehearse with the rest of my platoon mates). so natually i felt very excited about it.

Advance and Overcome! Mr. Green

gnoik SG

I took part in SAF Day 2001 parade. I rmb got KFC to eat! Yummy!

kopiosatu SG

Definately NDP

but this year i'll be involved too, maybe at the static displays.

Zooish SG

Why u so gd, got kfc? Crying or Very sad
Isit b'cos u did it at National Stadium? 2001 was the heavy downpour one isit?

Me only get lousy SFI... OCS got no KFC

edLow SG

when the lighting strike n thunder is heard.. if accident happen. is the conducting n supervising officer kena.... not the one whom insist the parade to continue. congrat for u for leaving ur unit soon.

believe urs is a happy one... but i cant wait to get out asap. each day just get more n more saikang!

flash9933 SG

..... funeral parade can or not? ...... i believe not many participate in funeral parade, marching in a set of commands which you dun really use such as “som-sung senjata” ... that was back in 1994 .......

gnoik SG

Yea, you are right! 2001 was the year when there was heavy rain on SAF day.
Nope, the parade was held on SAFTI MI. Can see a lot of crabs.. If u hungry can go eat lor.. Laughing

kwlee SG

hmmm, what are the procedure of a

military funeral?

edLow SG

wat OPs is tat? sound like a kind of drink...

wonder does tat funeral parade was the same code name back in 1994?

edLow SG

just another wayang show...
of cos these crab must turn up wat. to carry ball show face.. watever u say.... tat the biggest day for SAF.. if u dont turn up without a super valid reason. wat would others think of u?

flash9933 SG

i also not sure about the commands of a funeral parade .. kana selected to march in the military funeral where the tank commander died during a tank overturned incident ...

at the rehersal parade in 42SAR, first time saw a lot of RSMs, MWOs, SWOs from Armour kana arrowed to help out. Some are tasked to train the marching for the pallbearer and the rest the marching contigent. The parade was oversee by SWO Tay Song Kwee, then Armour formation RSM, now should have retired ...

Hellraiza SG

songsang senjata is the ground arms command right? Or is it reverse arms...
my ps used to call funeral parade "EX Whitestar"..dunno why..

anyway for me the most memorable parade has got to be last year's NDP...
now i know why my ex RSM used to say marching can build up cameraderie..
the part when u hormat the president, national anthem starts playing, chinook bearing state flag flypast...really undescribable! Makes u proud to be serving....

but the damn siong part is the inspection of the GOH....nnb wait until buay tahan...

TVaddict SG

marching in ndp 2003 is very memorable for me…

flash9933 SG

The songsang senjata is the command to flip the weapon pointing to the ground while the left hand bend to the back and grap the butt ...

Zooish SG

U think NDP inspection siong ah? Wait till u try out SAF Day parade. Rolling Eyes
Trooping of colours takes about 10 mins, all the while in hormat position. Then its another 20 minutes in senang diri position while the awards are being handed out.

NDP was the most relaxing of all the parades i've done. Good food (kfc, pizza hut, ice cream, free-flow milo), good accomodation (holding area at SIS, got aircon), and parade takes place after sundown, weather so cool. The atmosphere was more fun and relaxed since spectators were mostly civilians.
But the casing of colours after the parade took quite long.

SAF Day was the worst. Fried to a crisp on SAFTI parade square, plus the parade was long and boring.

CDF COC for Ng Yat Chung was nothing special, rained a bit i think.

RSAF Day was soooo noisy, with fighter jets taking off about 50m behind the parade ground. Plus it was done in the morning, facing the rising sun, damn glaring.