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Three from the People’s Association with guests and family members at the basic training POP: Chan Seck Sung,
Chan Jwee Kay and Tan Lai Hock (left to right).
Singapore’s first NDP, graduated as private soldiers, made SAFTI a household word, and set
a benchmark for the future training of National Servicemen in the Republic.
Regrettably, nobody thought to keep comprehensive records of these historical developments.
Endnotes
1. Minutes of The General Staff Fortnightly Meeting, 21 November, 1966.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. For some reason, in the official television records accessible to the public (Mediacorp archives) the SAFTI
contingent in 1966 is not captured.