Ex-chief of defence force's role in building the new SAF
Ng Jui Ping pushed for officers' retirement before 50, saw need to separate motivation from training
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Lt-Gen (Ret) Ng (in front) on board a Super Puma helicopter in 1993 to observe Exercise Wallaby at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Australia.
PHOTO: BERNARD TAN/FACEBOOK, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Lieutenant-General (Retired) Ng Jui Ping, the Singapore Armed Forces' second chief of defence force (CDF), died on Jan 1 from pancreatic cancer. He was 71.
Described by those who knew him as decisive and logical, the former artillery officer was the first locally trained CDF. His military career spanned 30 years from 1966. After he retired from service in 1995, he started his own consulting firm.