Soldiers use might and muscle to build Bailey Bridges in Bakelalan

BAKELALAN: A group of dedicated and hardy soldiers are risking lives and limbs in the rain-battered mountains of the Bakelalan highlands near the Sarawak-Kalimantan border to construct mobile steel bridges across raging rivers to enable 5,000 isolated rural folks to be linked to the outside world.

Unknown to most Malaysians, these brave unsung heroes — like their counterparts across the country — are quietly performing their duty to serve their nation in whatever is demanded of them, even in the extreme weather of the mountainous interior of Sarawak, 400km inland from Miri City.