Military engaged even in peacetime

I REFER to businessman Koon Yew Yin’s Facebook posting on Aug 12 where he wrote: “As you know, the Armed Forces personnel are doing nothing except eating and sleeping. In fact, almost all of them have never fired a shot except at target practice. Some of them should replace the foreign workers in the Felda plantations.”

I was completely disgusted and appalled when I read the post. It shows that he is completely ignorant or misguided in his views on the roles and functions of the military. It is easy for him to say that the military “is doing nothing except eating and sleeping” in peacetime. Please realise that our main role is in war.