Today-May 26
The Singapore Army is aiming to resume all its activities that have been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, including overseas exercises and in-camp training, by the end of the year, Chief of Army David Neo said on Wednesday (May 25). “Our army’s focus for this year is to resume our activities, both to continue to strengthen our current operations and to resume our overseas training exercises,” Brigadier-General (BG) Neo said in his first interview with the media since he was appointed chief of army in March this year. After Covid-19 struck in early 2020, National Service (NS) activities were suspended. Plans by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to resume these activities were derailed more than once when infection controls had to be tightened due to the different coronavirus strains. With restrictions now largely eased, the army in March this year conducted its first large-scale mobilization exercise since the start of Covid-19, activating more than 2,000 operationally ready national servicemen (NSmen). Later this year, the army will restart Exercise Wallaby at Shoalwater Bay in Queensland, Australia — an exercise that involves more than 2,700 soldiers from different vocations. Bilateral exercises with partner nations have also resumed, BG Neo said. Read more at: https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-army-resume-activities-end-2022-covid-19-controls-ease-1907996
