SHOALWATER BAY, Queensland: Daniel Lim never expected to bring his son with him when he traveled to Australia in the 1990s for his first National Service ( NS ) overseas military training exercise.
The younger Lim is 20 years old, which is the same time as his parents was at the time. Inevitably, however, everything else is not exactly the same.
Daniel Lim, a reservist Senior Lieutenant Colonel( SLTC) who & nbsp teaches mathematics and science in elementary schools, is now 49 years old.
His son Lim Dylan, a 3rd Sergeant( 3SG ) in full-time NS, expressed his excitement to learn that his father would be joining him at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland for the most recent episode of Exercise Wallaby to the media on Sunday, October 8.
3SG Dylan said, grinning widely as his father stood next to him,” I feel it’s a very special experience and I’m glad we can share this up.” ” And when we get home, we can have a popular practice to talk about.”
However, SLTC( NS) Daniel’s first participation in the largest unilateral overseas exercise by the Singapore Armed Forces ( SAF) in 1994 will be a far cry from this. Exercise Wallaby had just completed its first loop four years prior, so it was still in its infancy. Additionally, cellular phones were nonexistent.
Daniel is currently enrolled in the Reservist On Voluntary Extended Reserve Service ( ROVERS ) program, which enables operationally prepared servicemen like him to continue serving until they reach the legal age of 50 for officers. He is the 3rd Singapore Infantry Brigade’s chief of staff and a vision planner for Exercise Wallaby this year.
The younger Lim, a cement weapons second-in-charge in the Army, is in charge of the Belrex-protected combat support vehicle, which made its debut at the motorized battalion live-firing event on Wednesday, the first since 2012.
When the entire family was” invited to camp to celebrate someone ,” 3SG Dylan only had a hazy idea of how highly regarded his father was.
” I didn’t realize it until after I enlisted and spoke to him about NS ,” he said.
His father also advised him to get up to speed physically in order to meet the standards of the annual mandatory Individual Physical Proficiency Test( IPPT ) in the months prior to his enlistment about one and a half years ago.
Although the going was difficult, it was ultimately worthwhile. Dylan hit silver at his most new IPPT, where he did 60 within a moment, despite not even being able to do one push-up.