SAF commando shot by Thai villager

[makapaaa]

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A COMMANDO on a night training exercise in Thailand was accidentally shot by a local villager out hunting.

First-Sergeant Woo Teng Hai, a regular from the 1st Commando Battalion, suffered head injuries in the incident on March 13.

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[makapaaa]

He is now on medical leave.

=> See how cheep the FAPee TRAITORS wanna make the whole situation look like?

 

[makapaaa]

Btw, the incident happened on 13 Mar and the 154th leeports it only today after 2.5 months. If the victim mati, donch even expect them to say anything about it. Worse than North Korea!

 

[YellowRibbon]

SAF Commando 0 Thai Villager 1

 

[middaydog]

He is now on medical leave.

paid or unpaid ?

 

[MarrickG]

I thought commandos should know when there is danger?

I think the Thai villager is more alert than our commandos.

 

[makapaaa]

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SAF commando shot by Thai villager

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A COMMANDO on a night training exercise in Thailand was accidentally shot by a local villager out hunting.
First-Sergeant Woo Teng Hai, a regular from the 1st Commando Battalion, suffered head injuries in the incident on March 13.
The 25-year-old serviceman was hit by pellets from a shotgun, the Defence Ministry told The Straits Times yesterday. He is now on medical leave.
Mindef spokesman Darius Lim said 1st Sgt Woo was taking part in a 'routine training exercise' in a 'designated training area' in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok.
The night reconnaissance mission was part of the battalion's annual proficiency test conducted by the Army Training Evaluation Centre, or Atec.
The Straits Times understands that 1st Sgt Woo and three other commandos were walking alongside a plantation some time after midnight when they saw flashlights in the distance.
All four commandos crouched as the villager opened fire.
It is believed that 1st Sgt Woo was not wearing an SAF Kevlar helmet, and the pellets became lodged in his head.

=> You mean they cannot establish it as fact or not despite having 3 other witnesses in the group? Or Mindeaf is trying to siam compensation?

A medic attended to him at the scene before he was taken to hospital.
The serviceman was flown back to Singapore on the same day and hospitalised at Singapore General Hospital. He was discharged at the end of March.
Colonel Lim said the Royal Thai Army (RTA) had provided full assistance to the SAF in investigating the incident.
Preliminary findings showed that 1st Sgt Woo was 'accidentally injured' by the villager, who was hunting.
Col Lim added that the SAF and its Thai counterpart would continue to work closely 'to brief and make the villagers more aware of the designated training areas'.
A shotgun is generally used to hunt animals or birds using pellets half the size of a pea and could kill a human if fired at close range, within 30m.
When The Straits Times visited 1st Sgt Woo's Jalan Sultan flat last week, he declined to comment on the incident.
The serviceman, however, said that he had problems seeing with his right eye.
When asked if he would be reporting for duty, he said: 'I should be returning (to camp) soon.'
Because of space constraints in Singapore, the SAF has agreements with several other countries, including Australia, India and South Africa, to train on their turf. Singapore has been conducting training on Thai soil since 1973.
Under a bilateral defence cooperation pact, Thai armed forces are allowed to use Singapore's military bases.
The shooting is believed to be the first time that an SAF soldier has been hurt by a civilian.



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[kensington]

I thought commandos should know when there is danger?

I think the Thai villager is more alert than our commandos.

Oh...

You just gave those powers that be an idea, hahaha....

 

[tonychat]

SAF Commando 0 Thai Villager 1

Thailand one up. Ahhhhh!!

 

[lianbeng]

alamak...
what the hell was he doing there?
sg rambo ah?
people there just ceasefire liao go there start another fire?

 

[MarrickG]

With the recent unrest in Thailand, I'm sure those yellow or red shirt fellows would be better trained being ever in real combat situtation.

Ours? Just war games leh...experience is the real thing here.

Oh...

You just gave those powers that be an idea, hahaha....

 

[kensington]

With the recent unrest in Thailand, I'm sure those yellow or red shirt fellows would be better trained being ever in real combat situtation.

Ours? Just war games leh...experience is the real thing here.

Hahaha...What I mean is the Singapore chenghu will hire the Thai villagers to become the commandos in Singapore instead.

 

[Rogue Trader]

After our NS men have been "shooting" thai girls for so many years, they finally shoot back at us and get their revenge.

 

[red amoeba]

WTF...why isn't he wearing a kelver helmut? Agnst SOP no?

And if he is supposedly training in a designated training area, why and how did the villager sneak up on him and shoot him? Mistake him as a tiger?

If he is indeed training and at night some more and the villager and head-shot him with a shot gun, SAF must really recruit the villager because he is much better than the bunch of bo bo shooters that we have. Imagine - a headshot using a shotgun...wow

And if he manage to fire it at close range - which I logically assume given the darkness of the night and a shotgun, how on earth did the villager manage to sneak up on the commando? Hello, he is a commando, he is supposed to sneak up on people not the other way round. fuck.

Only one word - complacency. Just like how a S Korean frigate can get sunk by N Korean torpedo, its how MSK can walk out of Whitley...

 

[saratogas]

WTF...why isn't he wearing a kelver helmut? Agnst SOP no?

Commandos have the "Privilege" to wear jungle hat during trainings, helmet slows them down.

 

[ah_phah]

ASSaf already said its an overseas training mah, the fella kena shot in the head is classified as positive training outcome, in their investigations and leeport, i'm sure they will try to make his injury look legit. at most they will phrase it along the lines of :

"1SG Woo was in the training ground to provide a negative demonstration of the effects & consequences of not wearing the ASSaf approved kevlar helmet in hostile territory."

that way, the MIW will remain white as snow. anyway, at the rate that we're all paying our taxes & dues, medical compensation for serviceman injury is dirt cheap.

 

[scoobyhoo]

disobey of commands and orders! strip off his rank and demote him to be a recruit and throw him in detention barracks for 20 years!

 

[HellAngel]

I feel sorry for the parents of the commando. I'm sure there is some form of disablilty henceforth.

I rather get slowed down and not get killed.

 

[makapaaa]

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One thing that they would not tell you is that, these places, are populated with villagers. They have guns to protect their livelyhood, and robbers.
One one particular mission I had many years ago, the training people had placed some "ambush" for the battalion as part of exercise. Unfortunately, the place of ambush was near to some people home or what, I am not sure. The villager dogs were barking theur heads off.
You can imagine a whole battalion walking by and another group waiting to "ambush" them. Not long then, the villager fired a warning shot.
Of cos, the trainners were mad, and talk over the radio who fired the shot. The "attackers" quickly replied that it was the villagers who fired the shot.
Trainners called off the attack and move away.
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[makapaaa]

<TABLE class=msgtablealt cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>newyorker88 <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>8:03 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>kojakbt_89 <NOBR></NOBR>unread</TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (29 of 31) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>33613.29 in reply to 33613.28 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>You referring to Taiwan? Not thailand, as all R&R are guided by operators.
Taiwan had their own bunch of gansters also. Cant blame them much, since SAF is using land from the south, which SAF did pay money, but it goes up the north side, the KMT party coffers.
SAF tramps on the villagers roads and land, it is no wonder that when we go there, we are always closely watched and told to stay off certain land by the villagers themselves.
In taiwan, off limits are the discos, entertainment places. Many of our boys got into fights. There are even incidence of rape, where 10 guys made a gal drunk and each took turns to have sex with her. The 1st guy kena 40 days DB, and followng guy get a lesser one.
Back more than 20 plus years ago, to 30 years ago, there was one incident that was so bad that the matter went up to Winston Choo and Jiang Jin Kou, close door nego. Eventually, they covered up that matter. Heard was the shopkeeper cheated our NS man, and the whole company went down to thrash up his shop.
Those were the good days when the soldiers stick to each other thru thick or thin. Unlike later years, before I left, where all soldiers mind is to keng and shoot arrows.
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