Life of Singapore's longest-serving military chief captured in memoir
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Former military chief Winston Choo (in white) in a family photo in 2020.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF WINSTON CHOO
SINGAPORE - In the middle of a senior commander's course in 1970, then 29-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Winston Choo was summoned to see the Defence Minister, the late Goh Keng Swee, at his office.
What Dr Goh told him struck him like a bolt from the blue.