This RAF officer beats all of SG's Scholar Generals and Scholars

[steffychun]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ron-named-as-Wing-Commander-Nikki-Thomas.html

A woman who has become the first to command an RAF fast jet squadron is expected to lead bombing missions over Iraq this summer.

​Wing Commander Nikki Thomas​, who took charge of the newly reformed No 12 Squadron at RAF Marham in Norfolk​ ​on Friday​, flew a daring low mission to help foil a deadly rocket attack on a UK base in Afghanistan.

​​The 36-year-old is a weapons system operator with extensive experience of combat operations, clocking up more than 35 missions in Afghanistan within three months alone.

In December 2009, as squadron leader of No 31 Squadron Tornado team, she and her pilot, Flight Lieutenant Juliette Fleming were the RAF’s first all-female Tornado jet crew.

They flew an aircraft armed with 500lb laser guided Paveway IV bombs, Brimstone air-to-ground missiles and a 27mm gun and their missions helped both American and British troops under fire in Helmand Province.

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How many Scholar Generals have her level of experience.

 

[syed putra]

Fighting Isis and taliban from the plane like playing computer games. Its that safe.

 

[Confuseous]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ron-named-as-Wing-Commander-Nikki-Thomas.html

A woman who has become the first to command an RAF fast jet squadron is expected to lead bombing missions over Iraq this summer.

​Wing Commander Nikki Thomas​, who took charge of the newly reformed No 12 Squadron at RAF Marham in Norfolk​ ​on Friday​, flew a daring low mission to help foil a deadly rocket attack on a UK base in Afghanistan.

​​The 36-year-old is a weapons system operator with extensive experience of combat operations, clocking up more than 35 missions in Afghanistan within three months alone.

In December 2009, as squadron leader of No 31 Squadron Tornado team, she and her pilot, Flight Lieutenant Juliette Fleming were the RAF’s first all-female Tornado jet crew.

They flew an aircraft armed with 500lb laser guided Paveway IV bombs, Brimstone air-to-ground missiles and a 27mm gun and their missions helped both American and British troops under fire in Helmand Province.

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How many Scholar Generals have her level of experience.

Challenger her to paper aeroplanes lah against ours, and see if she can win.

 

[steffychun]

Fighting Isis and taliban from the plane like playing computer games. Its that safe.

Flying a 40 year old aircraft and having to coordinate flying intelligence and attacking. Not easy as NDP.

 

[steffychun]

Challenger her to paper aeroplanes lah against ours, and see if she can win.

Sure, all the scholar generals will pee in their pants.

 

[borom]

Compare this to the guy who blow his trumpet about leading a band in the rain.

 

[virus]

sibei back news

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/w...emale-fighter-pilot-isis-airstrikes.html?_r=0

sep 2014 alrdy got female pilot from UAE and saudi prince taking part in bombing.

 

[GeeseHoward]

she looks pretty

 

[JohnTan]

Big deal. We have the Ng brothers of the SAF. The three brothers are very talented, and they are a much better asset than your silly lady pilot from Jordan.

Tribe chief and his brothers in arms
JERMYN CHOW Assistant News Editor

HIS older brother was the air force chief and his younger one is the navy chief. Lieutenant-General Ng Chee Meng, himself, is now Singapore's Chief of Defence Force, but his journey started out differently from that of his two siblings.

PRO-ACTIVE LEADER: Lt-Gen Ng receiving the Combat Skills Badge (CSB) from Colonel Tony Teo, Chief of Staff, 9th Division. The CDF volunteered for the CSB course last year when he took over the helm. PHOTO: MINDEF

While his older brother, Permanent Secretary (Defence Development) Ng Chee Khern, 48, and younger brother, navy chief Ng Chee Peng, 44, bagged the President's Scholarship, Lt-Gen Ng, 46, was only awarded the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Training Award.

But to understand why he joined them at the top, you only have to glimpse the passion that drives him.

As the SAF's head honcho, Lt-Gen Ng still volunteered for an army combat skills course last year, taking part alongside comrades less than half his age to lug 20kg combat gear on a 32km route march. He also completed a two-week naval diving course.

He said he wanted to understand the "way of life" in the army and navy.

"I've done the route march as a young man. I wanted to go through it again just to understand what the people who serve together with me go through," said Lt-Gen Ng.

Sibling rivalry? None, said Lt-Gen Ng in a media interview.

As navy chief, RADM Ng is one of the defence chief's "principal commanders".

"I listen closely to his views and to his input so that we can make the best decisions."

Previously, when his older brother was the air force chief, he reported to him.

"And we treat each other as superior and subordinate if need be," Lt-Gen Ng added.

And when the brothers get together with their families, they do not talk shop. They talked about football, said Lt-Gen Ng.

People seem to be the focus of Lt-Gen Ng, who calls the SAF a "tribe" in which the 350,000 men and women he leads speak their mind to "arrive at the best decisions".

And with a more vocal generation of servicemen reporting for duty, the defence chief sees great opportunities.

"I was a 21-year-old before, I embrace the idealism of the younger generation," he said.

"I will take on their views but then from now being a 46-year-old man, I will try to imbue in them a balance of idealism and pragmatism."

But the open culture does not mean "anarchy" as Lt-Gen Ng still expects his commanders to successfully carry out decisions that have been made.

He is a passionate man. When he stepped down as air force chief last year, he was fighting back tears, saying he was leaving the air force with a "heavy heart and with much joy".

But now as the defence chief, he is setting the tone for how he wants to lead his "tribe".

"I think the SAF can do better, and we will try to do better. Starting with me, today. Hopefully, I have removed all the different jargon, I tried very hard not to use any of them. So I hope I have expressed my views to you in a cogent, simple way."

http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/tribe-chief-and-his-brothers-arms-20140702

 

[virus]

Talented in Warcraft or super Mario?

 

[steffychun]

Big deal. We have the Ng brothers of the SAF. The three brothers are very talented, and they are a much better asset than your silly lady pilot from Jordan.


http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/tribe-chief-and-his-brothers-arms-20140702

They only know how to study. Seee if they can last a day against the Taliban or Hamas.

 

[steffychun]

Big deal. We have the Ng brothers of the SAF. The three brothers are very talented, and they are a much better asset than your silly lady pilot from Jordan.


http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/tribe-chief-and-his-brothers-arms-20140702

They only know how to study. Seee if they can last a day against the Taliban or Hamas.