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Gruelling 10-week course stands in the way of selection to SCDF's elite Dart unit
Seven out of 15 men survived the 30-hour Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Dart) selection in February. But a gruelling 10-week course stands in their way to becoming Dart officers.
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Sergeant Muhammad Shafi'i Rahmat, 30, wielding a portable cutter. Dart trainees learn to use a variety of tools, like hand-held cutters and hydraulic spreaders, needed to extract accident victims quickly from vehicles, under the watchful eye of their instructors.
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It was 5am on March 5, but seven trainees were fully alert and standing ramrod straight in full uniform for an outdoor ceremony at the Civil Defence Academy in Jalan Bahar.
Hoping to join the Singapore Civil Defence Force's elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Dart), they were told by the unit's commanding officer to give their "100 per cent" during the 10-week course they were about to undertake.
