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Malaysian Armed Forces

Negligent Explosions

Like the Malaysian Army, I am embarrassed to update the previous “Border Incident”. The Bernama report below explained everything. It is fortunate that my former colleagues misidentified the four soldiers battalion. The Royal Malay Regiment has had a long and proud tradition. Its image is sullied by the actions of […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Border Incident

It is quite disheartening reading the news of the incident at Malaysian-Thai border where four soldiers were injured after two grenades were thrown/fired at them. Mercifully they were only slightly injured in the twin blasts. Most of the papers including Bernama, the national news agency, identified them as soldiers from […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Operators Or Good Old Fashioned Infantry

SHAH ALAM: The Malaysian battalion set to go to Lebanon under the UN banner will comprise 160 special forces operators and 200 soldiers for administrative and logistics purposes. I can understand the need for SF to be in midst things but Unifil mission profile does not actually support the need […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Told You So…

If only someone was smart enough to issue out notices on the paper or tv that no one should be worried about low flying planes… news story from Bernama is self-explanatory… FOREIGN AIRCRAFT INVOLVED IN FPDA EXERCISE — NAJIB PEKAN, Sept 23 (Bernama) — Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Like an Ostrich

Malaysia seems to host a lot of foreign forces lately. Currently, UK and Aussie air forces are in country for the Starfish exercise under the Five Power Defence Arrangement as I mentioned in my earlier posts (Sentru in Subang)Unfortunately, as other joint training exercise like with the US (Carat), we […]