Last day of school semester and start of June holidays...

Hey guys,

I know today is the last day of school... But I guess it doesn't feel like the last day of school since most of you are at home because of the LMS thingy anyway... Also, tomorrow is finally the actual day of the NCDCC Day Parade...

Being the very 1st annual parade organized by NCDCC HQ, you all ought to be proud that a good number of your seniors made it into the parade... Also, gracing the event are 2 very distinguished guests... The 1st is, Commissioner Peter Benedict Lim Sin Pang... For those of you who do not know what his significance is to us, well, lets just put it that he runs our parent organisation, the Singapore Civil Defence Force... So you can say he is the cream of the crop of all Civil Defence Officers in Singapore... The biggest of the big...

The 2nd of our distinguished guests is, Mr Charles Chong, Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris - Punggol GRC... Some of you might ask, why is the Guest Of Honour him??? Well, other than being a Member of Parliament, he is also the Chairman of the Home Team Cadet Corps Council... This Council oversees operations by both NPCC HQ and NCDCC HQ... Without him, all of us would probably still be CCA-less...

These guests are very highly respected people and those that get the honour of forming a parade before him is none other than your seniors, most of whom will be forming the Guard-Of-Honour Contingents... Even those who were earlier in the Supporting Contingents proved worthy of marching as a Guard-Of-Honour, donning their Ceremonial Uniforms... Leading the 2nd Guard-Of-Honour Contingent is CLT Shafiq...

A few outstanding cadets were even pulled into the Flag Party... The Flag Party is a contingent, whose members carry proudly, the Unit flags of all NCDCC Units in Singapore... Bearing the Admiralty NCDCC Service Flag is none other than WO Syikin... WO Shafa, SSG Haziq, SSG Azmi, SSG Aishah and SSG Alif also made it into Flag Party... They will be bearing the Flags of younger Units who lack WOs and SSGs to carry their own flags... Their Unit's pride and honour will be in the hands of your seniors, who show a degree of selflessness for others by bearing other Unit flags...

There is also another group of flags also known as the Flag Party... The only difference is that these flags are at the front of the parade and requires everyone to stand at attention if these flags march past them... They are the National Flag, the Ministry Of Education Co-Curricular Activities Branch Flag, The Singapore Civil Defence Force Service Flag and the National Civil Defence Cadet Corps Service Flag... Bearing and escorting these flags are all CLTs... Yay... Finally we CLTs have a part to play... Bearing the National Civil Defence Cadet Corps Service Flag is CLT Aniq while the Singapore Civil Defence Force Service Flag bearer is me... Finally my position is confirmed... Yay... Hope the parade goes well...

Also during the parade, Admiralty NCDCC Unit will officially receive our Gold Award, recognising us as a Gold Unit... Also at the ceremony, we will witness the promotion of 5 Teacher Officers to the rank of Captain... 1 of these 5 Teacher Officers is Mr Mike Ng, promoting from A/CPT to CPT... It takes 5 years (including 1 year probation) to promote from LTA to CPT... But as OC Unit, Mr Mike was awarded the rank of CPT even before he completed the promotion criteria... Therefore, the rank of A/CPT... Come this Saturday, Mr Mike will be a full-fledged CPT...

Okay... I think my post is long enough... So wish us luck... Hopefully all goes as planned... Will be a grand parade and a very important parade for ADSS NCDCC...

Your Sir,
CLT Suhairi Roslan