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PREFACE
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MI undertook this project to share these valuable stories from the First Batch for the benefit
of current and future generations of servicemen and women, including our Singaporean sons
who serve National Service.
COLONEL (RETIRED) RAMACHANDRAN MENON
Editor
Dr Goh Keng Swee, Minister for the Interior and Defence, officiating at the Commissioning Parade in July 1967.