Rsaf to fly "missing man" formation to tribute lee kuan yew

[h=1]RSAF TO FLY "MISSING MAN" FORMATION TO TRIBUTE LEE KUAN YEW[/h]
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27 Mar 2015 - 10:44pm








[Photo: Illustration of the Missing Man Formation taken from Edwards Air Force Base]
In loving tribute of our founding Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew, The Republic of Singapore Air Force’s Black Knights will be flying a Missing Man Formation during his State Funeral on Sunday, 29 March 15.
The Missing Man Formation is a tradition that dates back to World War I, and is used as a solemn aerial salute to honour deceased dignitaries or military aircrew. During the State Funeral, four Black Knights F-16C aircraft, in national colours, will fly in the shape of a 'V' towards City Hall.
As the V-formation approaches City Hall, one aircraft will leave the formation and head off to the west, signifying the deceased’s final flight towards the direction of the setting sun.







The other three aircraft will continue to fly onward. What is left is an asymmetric flight of three fighters with a visible gap where the departed aircraft used to be. The remaining formation is a conspicuous symbol of the Missing Man.
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*Article first appeared on https://www.facebook.com/TheRSAF/photos/a.286774151431116.61782.23642406...

[h=1]SAF TO GIVE 21 GUN SALUTE TO LEE KUAN YEW ON SUNDAY[/h]
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27 Mar 2015 - 7:57pm








<< SAF’s final farewell to Mr Lee Kuan Yew>>
The outpouring of love and respect for the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew, our founding Prime Minister, has been overwhelming. More importantly, just as in the passing of a revered patriarch of a family, it has brought all Singaporeans together. His death caused us to focus on his life’s work and reminded us how poor we started out, how fortunate that the heavens smiled on us and gave us Mr Lee and his colleagues who persevered through difficulties to build a thriving metropolis. On Sunday, all Singaporeans will together have to say our final farewell to Mr Lee.
The SAF will bid Mr Lee our final farewell with the highest honours. As the gun carriage carries Mr Lee’s body from Parliament House, there will be a 21-gun salute fired by four ceremonial 25-pounder guns as the procession journeys around the Padang. Four RSAF Black Knights will also salute Mr Lee as his body passes City Hall with a "Missing Man" formation where one Black Knight breaks off. As Mr Lee’s body crosses the Esplanade Bridge, Patrol Vessels RSS Dauntless and RSS Resilience will conduct a ceremonial sailpast off the Marina Barrage as our final salute.






It will be a painful moment of finality and parting, but life will go on. PM Lee Hsien Loong shared this poignant Chinese poem with me:
沉舟侧畔千帆过，病树前头万木春。
(A thousand sails pass the sunken barge, ten thousand saplings spring forth around the dying tree.)
Mr Lee Kuan Yew would encourage us to continue to live life to its fullest, to take Singapore further and make the World proud of what more we can accomplish from what he had started.

- Ng Eng Hen
*Article first appeared on https://www.facebook.com/ngenghen.defenceminister/photos/a.6521630615436...

It will be a painful moment of finality and parting, but life will go on. PM Lee Hsien Loong shared this poignant Chinese poem with me:
沉舟侧畔千帆过，病树前头万木春。
(A thousand sails pass the sunken barge, ten thousand saplings spring forth around the dying tree.)
Mr Lee Kuan Yew would encourage us to continue to live life to its fullest, to take Singapore further and make the World proud of what more we can accomplish from what he had started.

=> Cut the crap and practise what daddy preached in the early years of nation-building before both of them started to treat the country their familee business and the people their slaves or expendable digits used for serving NS and to be replaced by their FTrash pets!

LKY attended Top Gun training school at Marimar before?

Every MRT train cabins should leave one priority seat empty as a mark of respect for our elder stateman.