BMTC School 2 - CO: LTA Jeffrey Tan

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Mohawk and Ninja are the most siong coys in BMTC sch 2 under young commissioned officers as COs in 2003 when I was in tekong...

Leopard n Scorpion are the most senang n welfare becoz we haf experienced warrant officers...
 

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I suddenly thought of him after watching NDP. and i google his name and found this thread.

Since its a holiday, and i am kinda free, let me share my thoughts for Jeffrey Tan. (during my time with him, he was LTA) And Please Please Please pardon me for my English. Didnt really study hard back then.

I was in the 07 batch so its quite way back but he did left a good memories to me.

Before my enlistment to BMT, all my friends were telling me that pray hard dont heng heng go in to Ninja Company. The most xiong company in BMTC. After getting the slip when waiting to swear in, i saw the slip and it wrote "N" Coy.:eek:
Since its a done deal, i was like, "okay, its only for 3 months."

There are many bits and pieces of memories of him during my BMT times. Just let me share a few of my past experience with him as the OC of Ninja Coy.

"Dont Drag Your Boots"
It was being paste outside of the COY office, "DONT DRAG YOUR BOOTS", initially we didnt understand why he emphasis on dont drag your boots. he only told us during field camp. If a soldier drag his boots in the field(forest), there bound to have branches and leaves thus creating a huge commotion even before you spot the person(he did told one of the instructor to demo to us). It was indeed true, so much so about tactical during mission. If you drag your boots in the jungle, the enemy will know you are coming. Make Sense?

I am not sure about what you guys think but whenever i see a person dragging his foot wear, i got very irritated, not only the person is portraying that he is sloppy and its kind of noisy also. So i think, when someone wants to show he unhappiness or laziness, he will tend to drag his foot wear.

Its true that whenever he caught anyone dragging boots in road march, we will get the legendary U turn. But it was not that far when we U turn all the way back to Company and start over again.

I read some of the comments from other forumer, and i notice one saying that "ask him to carry field pack to watch 20km or something like that" Well, to answer that, he did carry his FBO, and additional Field Pack of fellow mates fall out. And always he is with the front recee wearing "troops marching" guys. Our target for road march was 4km 40mins. so everytime is was more than marching, its like fast march that kind.

About his injury, i am not sure should we share this, but he was injured during some exercise.

Some of his favorite quotes

Dont show me the world is cruel, the man are selfish
If you give me mickey mouse, i give you Donald duck follow by countless times of understand? understand? understand? understand? understand?
Mind over body (this still applies to me)​

I remember there was once other recruits tag along with us for the IPPT(they failed in their company so have to retake), when the conducting officer is giving the briefing, and the another company guys, was looking down(not paying attention), Tan suddenly shout, "you look at your c**K for f**k?" the whole company knock it down because of him. The best thing was, he walk to the recruit when asking "understand?understand?understand? and he didnt hear any "yes sir,yes sir,yes sir". Next moment, Tan ask the recruit to recover, and asked him why never shout? the next moment, Tan ask the recruit to run to a fire hydrant about 30 metres away and shout 100 times "YES SIR". In my mind, ya, we were so used to his style, so that recruit was just sway to the max.

After which, he explained, everything being conducted in SAF has it own reason, including the repeated safety briefing which we have heard thousands times during BMT. Who to blame? Tan? or the Recruit? Tan is doing his job to ensure that everyone is clear to the instructions given. The recruit is the first time attached to our Coy.

Outfield

I am not sure whats the exercise call, but its spamming of rounds in the sky when there is a fighter jet fly pass. We didnt do it though because he thought its lame, because the jet is flying so high in the sky and fast. With only effective range of 400m(M16), he felt that its not rational to disclose our location and it will do any damage to it. Its sound so logical to me.

I remembered when one was caught didnt apply his camo properly, we have to do many many many times of camo on camo off. why i remember was because, i was getting ready for the next camo on, instead, it was knock it down. #$%^&*&@%#. it was a funny moment.

Cookhouse

whenever we go to cookhouse, while queuing for food, people tend to ask which COY are you from, and after telling mine, they were like "wow, half commando" a sense of pride from the COY suddenly ignite within me. haha.

POP

Days before POP, i was hoping that he will be the one that lead us in the marching, at least parents and friends will know that we are trained by a commando, but instead, he was the Parade Commander of our POP thus only Coy 2ic lead us. Its kinda sad for me cause after being tekan from him for so long, he was not able to lead us in the march.

Before our POP, he took time to come and speak with us, he say, "well, i am sorry that i cant lead you all in the parade, as i need to be the parade commander, but i hope you guys will take what you have learnt in BMT and applied it in remaining years in NS" and he did the magical thing, SMILE. for the entire BMT, didnt see him smile before. well, that was the last time i saw him.

So, my thoughts for him is like love and hate, i always tell people that NS was a turning point of my life, It makes me a better man and a better soldier(i know it sounds wayang but i still have to say it). Of course his training was tough, but tough time dont last, but tough man do.

To Jeffrey Tan,

Sir, if you are reading this, i hope you are doing well in your life. I do missed you sometimes of your repeated "understand" and mickey mouse and the occasionally f**k off. Thank you for tough time. and always do the talk. there are many rumor of your whereabouts, but i do hope that one day, your effort will be recognize one day. If ever there is a war breaks out, I know, that i will be proud fighting with you as my commanders whom is wearing the red beret instead of the white shirt.

Duty, Honor, Country, Ninja Company!

Sign out,
Once your recruit

Cheers.
 

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I suddenly thought of him after watching NDP. and i google his name and found this thread.

Since its a holiday, and i am kinda free, let me share my thoughts for Jeffrey Tan. (during my time with him, he was LTA) And Please Please Please pardon me for my English. Didnt really study hard back then.

I was in the 07 batch so its quite way back but he did left a good memories to me.

Before my enlistment to BMT, all my friends were telling me that pray hard dont heng heng go in to Ninja Company. The most xiong company in BMTC. After getting the slip when waiting to swear in, i saw the slip and it wrote "N" Coy.:eek:
Since its a done deal, i was like, "okay, its only for 3 months."

There are many bits and pieces of memories of him during my BMT times. Just let me share a few of my past experience with him as the OC of Ninja Coy.

"Dont Drag Your Boots"
It was being paste outside of the COY office, "DONT DRAG YOUR BOOTS", initially we didnt understand why he emphasis on dont drag your boots. he only told us during field camp. If a soldier drag his boots in the field(forest), there bound to have branches and leaves thus creating a huge commotion even before you spot the person(he did told one of the instructor to demo to us). It was indeed true, so much so about tactical during mission. If you drag your boots in the jungle, the enemy will know you are coming. Make Sense?

I am not sure about what you guys think but whenever i see a person dragging his foot wear, i got very irritated, not only the person is portraying that he is sloppy and its kind of noisy also. So i think, when someone wants to show he unhappiness or laziness, he will tend to drag his foot wear.

Its true that whenever he caught anyone dragging boots in road march, we will get the legendary U turn. But it was not that far when we U turn all the way back to Company and start over again.

I read some of the comments from other forumer, and i notice one saying that "ask him to carry field pack to watch 20km or something like that" Well, to answer that, he did carry his FBO, and additional Field Pack of fellow mates fall out. And always he is with the front recee wearing "troops marching" guys. Our target for road march was 4km 40mins. so everytime is was more than marching, its like fast march that kind.

About his injury, i am not sure should we share this, but he was injured during some exercise.

Some of his favorite quotes

Dont show me the world is cruel, the man are selfish
If you give me mickey mouse, i give you Donald duck follow by countless times of understand? understand? understand? understand? understand?
Mind over body (this still applies to me)​

I remember there was once other recruits tag along with us for the IPPT(they failed in their company so have to retake), when the conducting officer is giving the briefing, and the another company guys, was looking down(not paying attention), Tan suddenly shout, "you look at your c**K for f**k?" the whole company knock it down because of him. The best thing was, he walk to the recruit when asking "understand?understand?understand? and he didnt hear any "yes sir,yes sir,yes sir". Next moment, Tan ask the recruit to recover, and asked him why never shout? the next moment, Tan ask the recruit to run to a fire hydrant about 30 metres away and shout 100 times "YES SIR". In my mind, ya, we were so used to his style, so that recruit was just sway to the max.

After which, he explained, everything being conducted in SAF has it own reason, including the repeated safety briefing which we have heard thousands times during BMT. Who to blame? Tan? or the Recruit? Tan is doing his job to ensure that everyone is clear to the instructions given. The recruit is the first time attached to our Coy.

Outfield

I am not sure whats the exercise call, but its spamming of rounds in the sky when there is a fighter jet fly pass. We didnt do it though because he thought its lame, because the jet is flying so high in the sky and fast. With only effective range of 400m(M16), he felt that its not rational to disclose our location and it will do any damage to it. Its sound so logical to me.

I remembered when one was caught didnt apply his camo properly, we have to do many many many times of camo on camo off. why i remember was because, i was getting ready for the next camo on, instead, it was knock it down. #$%^&*&@%#. it was a funny moment.

Cookhouse

whenever we go to cookhouse, while queuing for food, people tend to ask which COY are you from, and after telling mine, they were like "wow, half commando" a sense of pride from the COY suddenly ignite within me. haha.

POP

Days before POP, i was hoping that he will be the one that lead us in the marching, at least parents and friends will know that we are trained by a commando, but instead, he was the Parade Commander of our POP thus only Coy 2ic lead us. Its kinda sad for me cause after being tekan from him for so long, he was not able to lead us in the march.

Before our POP, he took time to come and speak with us, he say, "well, i am sorry that i cant lead you all in the parade, as i need to be the parade commander, but i hope you guys will take what you have learnt in BMT and applied it in remaining years in NS" and he did the magical thing, SMILE. for the entire BMT, didnt see him smile before. well, that was the last time i saw him.

So, my thoughts for him is like love and hate, i always tell people that NS was a turning point of my life, It makes me a better man and a better soldier(i know it sounds wayang but i still have to say it). Of course his training was tough, but tough time dont last, but tough man do.

To Jeffrey Tan,

Sir, if you are reading this, i hope you are doing well in your life. I do missed you sometimes of your repeated "understand" and mickey mouse and the occasionally f**k off. Thank you for tough time. and always do the talk. there are many rumor of your whereabouts, but i do hope that one day, your effort will be recognize one day. If ever there is a war breaks out, I know, that i will be proud fighting with you as my commanders whom is wearing the red beret instead of the white shirt.

Duty, Honor, Country, Ninja Company!

Sign out,
Once your recruit

Cheers.


jin touching :sad:

Happy national day. LTA Jeffery Tan.
 

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Now CO of school 2 is eddie kheng

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It's LTC Eddie Khng, He was S3 of 1st Singapore Infantry Brigade. He is also very nice when he was MAJ. S3 means Signal Operations

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One of his (CPT Jeffrey's) quotes were :
1: Don't Do Stunts
2: Hey Recruits! Don't drag your ****ing boots! If you wanna drag your boots, never mind! Extra duties then.

When 1 recruits came in for AWOL, he (CPT Jeffrey) said :
Recruits! Repeat after me! Understand! Understand! Understand! Understand!
If 1 recruits don't repeat after him, he shouted across the office:
Cheesepie! Repeat again after me!
 
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I suddenly thought of him after watching NDP. and i google his name and found this thread.

Since its a holiday, and i am kinda free, let me share my thoughts for Jeffrey Tan. (during my time with him, he was LTA) And Please Please Please pardon me for my English. Didnt really study hard back then.

I was in the 07 batch so its quite way back but he did left a good memories to me.

Before my enlistment to BMT, all my friends were telling me that pray hard dont heng heng go in to Ninja Company. The most xiong company in BMTC. After getting the slip when waiting to swear in, i saw the slip and it wrote "N" Coy.:eek:
Since its a done deal, i was like, "okay, its only for 3 months."

There are many bits and pieces of memories of him during my BMT times. Just let me share a few of my past experience with him as the OC of Ninja Coy.

"Dont Drag Your Boots"
It was being paste outside of the COY office, "DONT DRAG YOUR BOOTS", initially we didnt understand why he emphasis on dont drag your boots. he only told us during field camp. If a soldier drag his boots in the field(forest), there bound to have branches and leaves thus creating a huge commotion even before you spot the person(he did told one of the instructor to demo to us). It was indeed true, so much so about tactical during mission. If you drag your boots in the jungle, the enemy will know you are coming. Make Sense?

I am not sure about what you guys think but whenever i see a person dragging his foot wear, i got very irritated, not only the person is portraying that he is sloppy and its kind of noisy also. So i think, when someone wants to show he unhappiness or laziness, he will tend to drag his foot wear.

Its true that whenever he caught anyone dragging boots in road march, we will get the legendary U turn. But it was not that far when we U turn all the way back to Company and start over again.

I read some of the comments from other forumer, and i notice one saying that "ask him to carry field pack to watch 20km or something like that" Well, to answer that, he did carry his FBO, and additional Field Pack of fellow mates fall out. And always he is with the front recee wearing "troops marching" guys. Our target for road march was 4km 40mins. so everytime is was more than marching, its like fast march that kind.

About his injury, i am not sure should we share this, but he was injured during some exercise.

Some of his favorite quotes

Dont show me the world is cruel, the man are selfish
If you give me mickey mouse, i give you Donald duck follow by countless times of understand? understand? understand? understand? understand?
Mind over body (this still applies to me)​

I remember there was once other recruits tag along with us for the IPPT(they failed in their company so have to retake), when the conducting officer is giving the briefing, and the another company guys, was looking down(not paying attention), Tan suddenly shout, "you look at your c**K for f**k?" the whole company knock it down because of him. The best thing was, he walk to the recruit when asking "understand?understand?understand? and he didnt hear any "yes sir,yes sir,yes sir". Next moment, Tan ask the recruit to recover, and asked him why never shout? the next moment, Tan ask the recruit to run to a fire hydrant about 30 metres away and shout 100 times "YES SIR". In my mind, ya, we were so used to his style, so that recruit was just sway to the max.

After which, he explained, everything being conducted in SAF has it own reason, including the repeated safety briefing which we have heard thousands times during BMT. Who to blame? Tan? or the Recruit? Tan is doing his job to ensure that everyone is clear to the instructions given. The recruit is the first time attached to our Coy.

Outfield

I am not sure whats the exercise call, but its spamming of rounds in the sky when there is a fighter jet fly pass. We didnt do it though because he thought its lame, because the jet is flying so high in the sky and fast. With only effective range of 400m(M16), he felt that its not rational to disclose our location and it will do any damage to it. Its sound so logical to me.

I remembered when one was caught didnt apply his camo properly, we have to do many many many times of camo on camo off. why i remember was because, i was getting ready for the next camo on, instead, it was knock it down. #$%^&*&@%#. it was a funny moment.

Cookhouse

whenever we go to cookhouse, while queuing for food, people tend to ask which COY are you from, and after telling mine, they were like "wow, half commando" a sense of pride from the COY suddenly ignite within me. haha.

POP

Days before POP, i was hoping that he will be the one that lead us in the marching, at least parents and friends will know that we are trained by a commando, but instead, he was the Parade Commander of our POP thus only Coy 2ic lead us. Its kinda sad for me cause after being tekan from him for so long, he was not able to lead us in the march.

Before our POP, he took time to come and speak with us, he say, "well, i am sorry that i cant lead you all in the parade, as i need to be the parade commander, but i hope you guys will take what you have learnt in BMT and applied it in remaining years in NS" and he did the magical thing, SMILE. for the entire BMT, didnt see him smile before. well, that was the last time i saw him.

So, my thoughts for him is like love and hate, i always tell people that NS was a turning point of my life, It makes me a better man and a better soldier(i know it sounds wayang but i still have to say it). Of course his training was tough, but tough time dont last, but tough man do.

To Jeffrey Tan,

Sir, if you are reading this, i hope you are doing well in your life. I do missed you sometimes of your repeated "understand" and mickey mouse and the occasionally f**k off. Thank you for tough time. and always do the talk. there are many rumor of your whereabouts, but i do hope that one day, your effort will be recognize one day. If ever there is a war breaks out, I know, that i will be proud fighting with you as my commanders whom is wearing the red beret instead of the white shirt.

Duty, Honor, Country, Ninja Company!

Sign out,
Once your recruit

Cheers.

恭喜發財,萬事如意 to him.
 

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he was a mp command dy hd log? in 2014? LOL heard from the current hd log himself and some men there (b4 i changed unit earlier this month) that he was a f*cked up, drag boots in log branch office can kenna langar. those opposite his table (transport/ log br asa table) kenna the most.

he left approx feb/mar 2015, b4 i even get posted to there just to kenna ooc from mp basic course and becoming a lobo... plain lucky. not sure where he is now

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he is the one who slapped me awake for me to get to where i am today... miss him sia...
 

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he was a mp command dy hd log? in 2014? LOL heard from the current hd log himself and some men there (b4 i changed unit earlier this month) that he was a f*cked up, drag boots in log branch office can kenna langar. those opposite his table (transport/ log br asa table) kenna the most.

he left approx feb/mar 2015, b4 i even get posted to there just to kenna ooc from mp basic course and becoming a lobo... plain lucky. not sure where he is now

Sent from a jail cell in SAFDB using GAGT

from 2012, he was DY head log in MP Command.
 

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When I saw him no matter in MP COMMAND, I try to say myself : "Please don't drag my boots then". I am using slow motion without dragging my boots then.
 
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