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Chronicles of Old Singapore | Winston Wong – SAFTI, Bomb Disposal, Naval Diving & Sentosa Part 1
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Winston Wong recalls being in the 2nd batch of officer cadets at SAFTI and how the Israeli ‘advisors’ who trained them brought along their military mindset from the Six-Day War. He talks about what it meant to lead a group of men and his first posting to the bomb disposal unit, doing forensic work on relics from the Second World War.
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Signing Up
01:11 The Israeli ‘Advisors’
19:14 Being an Officer
27:58 Bomb Disposal
35:57 Forensics
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