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Gurkha Contingent. Coordinates: 1°20′21.41″N 103°52′44.79″E. Gurkha Contingent soldiers during the 117th IOC Session. The Gurkha Contingent ( GC) is a line department of the Singapore Police Force (SPF) consisting primarily of Gurkhas from Nepal, recruited by the British Army with the purview of the Government of Singapore.
The Officer Cadet School ( OCS, Chinese: 见习军官学府, Malay: Sekolah Pegawai Kadet, Tamil: பயிற்சி அதிகாரிப் பள்ளி) [3] is a military training centre that trains commissioned officers for the four branches of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF): the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Digital and ...
Third warrant officer ( 3WO) is a warrant officer rank in the Singapore Armed Forces. It is the most junior of the warrant officers, and holders of this rank are given appointments such as company sergeant major. The rank was newly introduced on 14 May 2009, [1] and went into effect on 1 April 2010, as part of a revised career structure for ...
Master warrant officer is a senior warrant officer rank in the Singapore Armed Forces. Master warrant officers often hold senior leadership roles such as school sergeant majors and regimental sergeant majors of brigade-sized units. The school sergeant major of Officer Cadet School is a master warrant officer.
History The Officer Cadet School within the SAFTI Military Institute as seen from the northwest.. Although the SAFTI Military Institute is an amalgamated institution, it draws much of its heritage from the original Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute (SAFTI), which was officially opened on 14 February 1966 at Pasir Laba Camp.
Specialist ranks of the Singapore Armed Forces. Insignia Rank Third sergeant: Second sergeant: First sergeant: Staff sergeant: Master sergeant: Abbreviation 3SG
As the Singapore Armed Forces expanded, the School of Infantry Section Leaders (SISL) was established on 1 October 1970 with a 21-week training course for NCOs. In 1979, after the military training system underwent a restructuring, high-performing SISL trainees were selected to undergo further training at the Officer Cadet School to become ...
The Naval Diving Unit ( NDU ), also referred to as the Naval Divers, is the special forces formation of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) responsible for conducting special operations from sea, air, and land. [1] The formation is made up of six squadrons, specialising in explosive ordnance disposal, underwater demolition, maritime security ...