The first woman to pass the Singapore Armed Forces' tough Ranger course
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- čas přidán 25. 10. 2023
- Captain Yap Hui Jun is the first woman to pass the Singapore Armed Forces' (SAF) Ranger course - one of its toughest small-unit leadership courses. She tells us what drove her to attempt it and what the hardest part was. Read her story: cna.asia/3s54mwU
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If anyone ever doubt if the course got pang chance or not? From her carrying MG with full NV device for the mission, I gave her my respect liao. 10 days outfield, no matter how pang chance, it is an incredible feat! Kudos to all the rangers!
Going thru recon course is honorable. To pass ranger course is jus INSANE !! TRULY remarkable and Salute u MDM!! U r truly power
Thank you for serving Singapore, appreciate your good effort...
Massive respect and thank you for your service and making my family and myself safe , wishes you and rest of comrades stay safe and healthy. Majulah Singapura . 🇸🇬
not just the mettle, but also the humility
If she ever has a grandson, the guy can literally say my grandmother can run faster/is stronger than you!
Congratulations 🎊 🎉...We are extremely proud of you 👍👍👍. Keep it up.
Big respect to all Rangers and soldiers who is protecting our homeland 24 x 7. Respect to this lady cadet whose strength has proven everything is possible and attainable be it a guy or lady
Great Respect to you and to all fellow citizens who go through this!!!
Mad respect, great job 🙌🏻
Well done sister! Go forth and live your best life. I sincerely hope that you will never have to go to war.
One word for her, Respect!
Thanks for your service and to all rangers
Bravo girls! May God Bless you always.
Kudos to your courage ! Well done !
Amazing, full respect to this young lady
mad respect! and thank you for serving the nation.
My heart goes to all men who have failed the ranger cse and still strive to excel in the organization. 20 yrs later the new motivation phrase, " My grandmother can complete ranger course unlike you, soldier!"
Mad respect. Notoriously tough ranger course. Even more so that a female completed it. Pushing the boundaries for our female peers. Perhaps Singapore government should consider enlisting females for 3 months to let them have a test of combat-readiness? 😂
As a female, I'm not opposed to it. Just nervous if I can ever be good enough for it... ^^;
full course full treatments just like us , no water down version please.
@@___Danny___ That's fair. I don't even understand or agree with the logic behind that altered ver.
@@kamleeshuen4730 Cos some people still believe in you girls need protection. My unit used to have a few females , same rank same pay but don’t need to do any duties after work , no OT , no fatigue, every month confirm 2 day MC from the medical center.
@@___Danny___ Yeah, I agree that if they want to incorporate women into the army, both the workload and pay needs to be evened out for everyone.
God bless you keep up a very good job.💖💖💖❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥💕💕💕💝💝💝
I did not go through the ranger course, but I carried the GPMG for 9d8n Brunei combat outfield course which seemed worth proud of 😂
Thank you All for your service to Singapore 🇸🇬
Respect!
Thank you. Wish you the best for your career and future. 😊
Well done. Massive respect to anyone who can pass.
yea i dare to say she is stronger and fitter than me.. thank you for your service...
Congratulations!🎉🎉🎉
Best of the best! 👍
Protect the heart of kindness 💛
MASSIVE RESPECT
From 31st batch, congrate on your successful as the first SAF women to have completed 💪👋
huge respect maam!
Bravo!!!
From what I know, it is completed in phases, meaning they go thru, fail some parts and go back to complete those parts.. not saying it is easy, just to put it in perspective. This is unlike the past, where if you fail one part you fail the whole thing.
Very impressive of her. And proof that women can perform elite military roles.
I am convinced she is an elite with this accomplishment
Well done!
Amazing
Respect
Felicitations !!!
I got to see it with my own eyes to believe that the exact same standards applied to man was applied to her. But I mad props to her for even attempting let alone completing even with relaxed standards.
My reg friend says it takes a brave man to want to even attempt Ranger once (unless you don't have a choice as a CDO)..
This was the CPT's second attempt as I understand it.
Immediately assume is relaxed standards. So can you complete the course with your relaxed standards.
Congratulations
Respect 💪
Don’t mess with this woman! She’s the real deal!
Let's have more of them is Singapore, such that it is not a news anymore, because it is a normalcy already.
Just like MRT.
Then this is real success of SAF and Singapore.
Since this super fit young female soldier could complete the Ranger course, why not extend National Service(NS) to all Singaporean able bodied female to serve NS.
Currently, only young Singaporean and PRs males are called up for NS. It is more advisable to have our local female to serve NS in medical, support units, etc. To play safe, avoid calling up PRs guys to serve NS. Should there be a war, I think complications arise like their countries of birth government might not allow them to go to war to protect Singapore or they are not willing to fight a war for Singapore. Mercenary soldiers.
Are u sure. If women are taking up medical and support units. Then men have no more light duties
We who about to Die Salute you captain !!!
Salute.
She has my respect as I could never do it. But i also want to know if got pang chance. Back when i was in army, the weak ones would always need to be 'supported' by the stronger ones. When we were doing JCC, there was this overweight chap in OCS (dont ask me how he got in), who was basically pulled through the entire JCC by his section. Everyone took turns to carry his field pack, his rifle and he was just a zombie for 9 days (except during the trap making and a-frame phase). He got the JCC badge in the end, but i felt so unjustified for the rest, as that fat guy's incompetence caused everyone to suffer 20% more than they needed to.
I hope this lady didn't make it that much harder for the rest to pass the Ranger course too.
All the more reasons why women should serve NS.
Well done 👍👍👍
Adversary of Singapore must be really confused now, its national Army has a Female Ranger. 🥺🥺
Finally this is the first stage of female ns
Getting the tab and operating in a spec op environment is two different scenarios. Congrats to you though....
👍 good job😊
Google ...it’s so much stress right now why are you adding on by interfering with everything I watch???and don’t change what I write
nice army！！
Why is it that those who compete at the highest level are often the most humble?
SG first female Power Ranger..
This tough course is definitely not for the faint hearted
Sorry for my ignorance, is it something like the Singapore counterpart of being a navy seal?
nope, it's similar to the US Ranger course [modelled after it], though with a tougher physical phrase.
no lah,, RANGER had Navy Seal for breakfast😊
What has the pap done, said or served or even did to better the lives of common singaporeans? Its been so long.
Nothing at all.
and I am just a storeman in army
👍👍👍
After so many years, what has the pap, lee and tharman done, said or served for singaporeans?
NOTHING even at all.
Personally i respect her for taking the challenge, but the media tend to use her success for other propaganda that's my opinion.
Is this like the us army ranger school?
I Myself, John Rodriguez, guesstimate that ,if American Soldiers and Airmen ,Who are Female, can earn The RANGER Short Tab at Ranger School, Fort Benning, Now Fort Moore, Georgia, then and there, Singaporean Soldiers, Female, can pass Their Ranger School, Too.
Wayang
.新加坡兵哥.加油加油🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
这是兵姐吧
Mad respect to him
Is this even Special Forces equivalent? How hard can it be when compared to Combat Diver Course or Commando Course? Can a Ranger be embedded with SOTF? What is the role of a Ranger?
Ranger is mandatory for SOTF. It''s considered the toughest course in SAF.
Ranger course is part of commando tasks.
Shld consider allowing girls to serve NS if they want and wish to….
Our future Minister
One of our MP is air force pilot too.
Wayang ah❤😂
Congratulation to your achievement ~ U have lead n shown that woman is as tough in physical n mental strengths to be a top soldier. I hope that you will inspire more women soldiers to greater heights. 🫡 🫡 🫡
insider's will know what is up...
If woman can do it, Singapore residents also can.
So? Nothing great about it. Just a job of undertaking in an army career path. No big deal. Hooha over nothing. Gender equality. No need to highlight the fact she is a woman. Can see she has passion doing such training. So what she is woman, is just part and puzzle of an army career path.
If only all regulars were like her, we wouldnt need reservists
Semper Fi
G.I. Jun
I'm doubt
What is the excuse for holding back Singaporean women from serving national service if a woman can pass the SAF ranger course? Even if they don't serve in combat roles, they could serve in support roles as firefighters, police, logistics personnel, paramedics, drivers, admin staff in MINDEF. Many of these roles are already filled by women anyway.
Any reason for baking about female must participate in NS ?
0:38 did i see a ranger wearing khaki boots?
patutnye pompan jgn masuk frontline unit. drg masuk medic atau admin atau store atau cook. let men do the fighting
It shows that she can fight along side the men
did she went through exact the same level of challenges as men or was it lowered for women?if she went through same stuff as men and even then passed the test then massive respect to her.
the exact same level😅 if it was lowered, she won’t be the first woman to pass it through, means that she was one of many women who tried but only she’s the one who passed.
pretty sure its the same standards, even if they did lower the bars, she is training side by side with her male counterparts, how low can the bar get
So woman can do it. Time for enlistment
Congratulations 🎉! Women are incredible humans.. They can endure some things that men can’t! 👍🏻👍🏻
Isn’t it ironic that your statement is sexist 😂
No need to simp.
@@CalvinK-the_old_fogeylook around, the whole comment section is overflowing with sexism.
@@Slla-th5vt It’s equally flooded with sexist comments and low self-esteem sentiments. I am just being helpful to point out the irony 😂
@@CalvinK-the_old_fogey not exactly sure what your case to refute me. You see the same sexist salty statements all around. Said nothing, but expect this one to be above all? It is not irony, it is part of natural. Speak up around if you really think this statement is the one to shoot down. Post your "irony" under the saltiness and see what you get.
[SALUTE!]
I am surprised to hear her voice which sounds so masculine. She is a role model to those feeble males out there.
Once caught by the enemy, she will quickly find out that her ranger batch and awards mean nothing more than the fact that is a female.
So stop kidding everyone she is even suitable for the role in war time, physical stamina not withstanding.
Sedap.
Yessir
took sg women more than half a century to accomplish this. life must be damn shiok to be girl in sg sia. if girl can do this then make them enlist 2 years also lah, gender equality wat.
How did she pass the prisoner of war excerise?????? Did she give in???
Did you pass your keyboard warrior course ?
Was the whole thing watered down just to accomodate her? If it wasnt, then it goes to show women can pretty much do any role in the military. So no excuse to not make national service compulsory just for men. Follow the israelis like we so proudly claim to model our miltary after.
So she will become the someone grandmother that can do better "YOU"
Yea right
She was given a pass by the men and instructors
Then you go do leh
If u get a pass, then u can complete liao? Since u cannot complete and she can, must be she is getting special treatment right?
My 2 sons want to know you.
Nosense
Not true..because his body can not withstand like a man, she is favored
PAP’s subtle Propaganda for Female Enlistment ?
Why so many people bark about female should participate in NS too, is this kind of “man” ego? You are the man just be the man.