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The SAFTI Military Institute (SAFTI MI, Simplified Chinese: 新加坡武装部队军训学院) is a Singaporean military training institution specialising in the training of officers from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). Located within an 88 hectare campus in Jurong West, it was officially opened by the former prime minister Goh Chok Tong on 25 August 1995, establishing itself as a one-stop training centre for all officers at all levels from the three arms of the SAF. Officers from the Singapore Army, Republic of Singapore Navy and Republic of Singapore Air Force begin their training at the Officer Cadet School (OCS), before proceeding on to the SAF Advanced Schools and the Singapore Command and Staff College (SCSC) at various stages of their careers. Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...
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In the 1950s, Jurong West was a swamp land with low hills covered by shrubs and a thick jungle. ...
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History
Although the SAFTI MI is a new amalgamated institution, it draws much of its heritage from the original Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute (SAFTI), which was officially opened on 14 February 1966 at Pasir Laba Camp. The Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute (SAFTI) was a Singaporean military training institution specialising in the training and education of officers from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), a role which has since been taken over by the new SAFTI Military Institute in 1995. ...
Schools There are a total of five schools in SAFTI MI: the Officer Cadet School (OCS) for cadets, SAF Advanced Schools (SAS) - one for each Service - for Captains, and the Singapore Command and Staff College (SCSC) for Majors and Lieutenant-Colonels.
To meet changing needs, curriculum and various exercises of the schools go through major revamps about once every five years. The first revamp was in 1999, led by then-Permanent Secretary Peter Ho, and the most recent was led by BG Tan and his team in 2004.
In between the five years, there were smaller reviews to maintain currency. For example, after mission like Operation Flying Eagle, some of the course content in SCSC and other schools was tweaked. New doctrine in also infused into the curriculum by SAFTI MI after various exercises carried out by the SAF. It has been suggested that Military of Singapore be merged into this article or section. ...
Leadership development is the means by which SAFTI MI tries to inculcate values, and better align the value in officers.
People don't come in with zero values, all of us have values from our parents, our upbringing, from the schools that we have attended. With this set of values, it is now a question of reaffirming some of them and realigning some of them to the SAF's core values which have been in place since the late 1980s, said BG Tan. SAFTI MI has a branch called the Centre of Leadership Development (CLD). This is a full-time SAF centre with psychologist and headed by a former brigade commander. These people focus their entire attention on how to develop officers in leadership. It has been suggested that Military of Singapore be merged into this article or section. ...
A psychologist is a scientist who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human behavior and mental processes. ...
As for helping officers in handling uncertainty, a lot of different methodologies are incorporated in courses. The word Methodology is used in several ways. ...
At OCS, for example, cadets go through this process of tactical decision-making games. These are designed to be very easy to employ, with just a sheet of paper and a map, and the cadet has to go through in his mind how he would deploy his forces and how to tackle the enemy. The purpose of this is to build a set a patterns that the cadet can use in the field.
Up at SCSC level, more complex methodologies are used. One of them is the Systemic Re-framing Thinking (SRT) that allows us to frame a particular situation and to re-frame it as the situation changes. Instead of providing students with a solution, a setting to the problem is established, so it allows the user to understand the problem very well. The word Methodology is used in several ways. ...
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References Menon, R. (1995) To Command: The SAFTI Military Institute Landmark Books, Singapore ISBN 9813002999 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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