I believe most of the peoples still don’t know all these news…..!! Only those ppl working at oil rig will know more. The investigation needs not to say, i myself believe government not care… and the result will forever a mistery. I myself sometime travelling by Malaysian’s Helicopter and i not dare to sleep during the journey to work! I prepare to ditch always.

I understand that pictures can be used as a single uniform symbol of meaning to address an issue.

But as advice, may I suggest you adhere to more minimalist styles and don’t pack a picture’s real estate with too much text and use less variations in colour and fonts? Such are the prevalent art styles that have broad appeals that your images actually have an old look to them.

And use Helvetica types.

cheers

PM Pak Lah said:- I don’t know (I don’t care. Good luck to you country men, I am having good time travelling around the world. Complaint lah, fight lah, do lah whatever you want to do lah. Now the country is on auto pilot. Go ask Najib to pray harder, hope the country will not crash. Khairy please cover for me, makan lah whatever you want to makan, remember to tar pow for me. Country crash also never mind lah, I already got share already. Bye bye … zzz)

While the nation prays, the leaders are getting away with grafts and whatever scandals.

Money all used to buy what? RM60mil jet?

Those that served the army are training to die for the country and safe guard the government at all times. At their own cost even when they are to be killed.

1) Military equipment not up to standard, poor maintenance, shoddy workmanship, no security at sensitive military installations etc

2) Thieves can walk into ammunitions dump and drive off with truckloads of weapons and ammunition…few years back, remember

3) Special forces don’t account for ammunition, explosives taken out of store

4) Senior defence officiala in possession of bags of jewellery and cash. Remember the landslide incidence near Bukit Antarabagsa where a general or colonel’s house was destroyed by landslide. Maninstream media reported bags of jewellery and cash was found.That was why military personnel cordoned off the area and NOT the rescue personnel. Something to hide?!!!

Is it any wonder the NUri’s crash?

Of course, he is negligent! There is no doubt about this no matter how he attempts to explain it away. That’s what visionary leadership is all about. Alas, that’s a component missing from Najib’s military headgear!

The other question all Malaysians want to know is what happened to all the tens or hundreds of billions expended on the military budget in the last 50 years (i.e. since Independence)? Or the last 30-40 years since the first purchase of those Nuris?

OK, Najib will say they don’t keep records for so long. Or, that’s OSA again. why, they don’t even have the correct (conflicting) figures of the total number of lives lost from Nuri helicopter crashes since they were first commissioned 40 years ago in 1968!

Of course, granted helicopters can nose-dive for a variety of reasons. That’s nothing new. Yet our military men & Minister of Defence seem helpless to arrest the problem. And that’s also nothing new!

Someone pointed out that the Huey helicopters from the 70s are still flying (in the US) and crop dusters in the US and Europe are generally well-maintained 40 – 50 year old planes, some even bi-planes.

No, we have a culture that has been brought up on making money through new contracts, and not on prolonging the life of our equipment. We have a culture that says that prolonging the life of our equipment does not result in funding for the political parties.

When planes and helicopters fall from the sky, the reaction is that of glee – let’s create even more commissions from purchase of new equipment.

What can I say??

Why is it happening exceptionally often in Bolehland and not in the US of A and elsewhere even though we are using the same aircraft?

Is it due to pilot error or lack of proper maintainance, bad weather etc in all these crashes? Why do RMAF pilots fear flying the Nuris if they are indeed a reliable aircraft and maintainance is reliable? Remember the “Flying Coffins” nickname for some of our aircraft?

What were the findings of the previous 17 crashes? What were the causes of these crashes? Did we learn anything from them to PREVENT further crashes and loss of lives? Did the top brass ever take proper action to ensure no more mishaps or did they take a lackadaisical approach? Shouldn’t they be held accountable and perhaps dismissed instead of all being awarded all those pingats and titles when their men are constantly put at risk?

Why buy equipment from all the funny and unreliable suppliers and put the army at jeopardy and not fully operational? We have equipment from Brazil, the Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey etc etc and we have a list of “suppliers” who are suspect? Is supplier problem a good EXCUSE for the armed forces not being operational? Wouldn’t your enemy be extremely happy you are not combat ready? The Armed Forces top brass must be held accountable if they cannot maintain an efficient chain of command and their troops not fully operational. There is simply no excuse for inefficiencies, indiscipline or incompetencies at all levels. A weak link is enough to destroy us.

And don’t simply buy equipment just because the other party is willing to take our palm oil or willing to send one of our boys to outa space!! Plzzzzzz!!!! Do you know how much it is costing us? Does their equipment makes sense for our use?

Yet we buy submarines at a bomb for what? And Sukhois and MiGs for show only. And wasting billions trying to build some ships in Lumut!!

Bottom line is that our Armed Forces need to be investigated (another Royal Commission a la Police Commission?) to find out what is the state of affairs there.

Too many innocent lives are at stake unnecessarily and our national security put at risk. The men in uniform must be willing to speak out and whistle blow if necessary for the good of the nation.

How many lives will be lost in the “3″ years?

How much extra monies will the Rakyat have to pay?

Who gets the contract? Razak again?

Can the minister gurentees the lives of our servicemen for Nuri for the next three years?

How many ministers dares Nuri? if not why put others in jepeody?

sheriff singh Says:
“When our army depends on 30-40 years old equipment and machines to operate, then we can’t have very much confidence in their capabilities to defend the country.”

This H-3 sea kings are still operated by the US, canada, Japan etc. The age of this helicopter is not the man reason it crashed. There A million reasons how it could crash why jump right to neglect? It could be pilot error, mechanical failure during flight etc. Machines of war never always works at optimum level. This goes even for the US. BTW when the new helicopters are bought i bet you will be ranting off how much they cost cause atm average transport helicopter cost between 40million usd upwards and we will be needing 30-40 of this so go figure why it took a damn long time to get new ones.

sheriff singh Says:
Wasn’t it not just last year or so that there was another scandal about our Armoured personnel Carriers (APCs)? That most of them were not-operational (out of service) because of the lack of spare parts and lack of maintenance and know-how?

The Adnan APC had a spare part problem cause the original suppliers had problems supplying them IT was never a problem of technical know how pls dont insult the job i do to defend your sorry ass.

sheriff singh Says:
How come with so much money allocated for our armed forces annually in our budget and development plans that we have this “breakdown syndrome”?

SO much money??? HAVE you considered the maintenance cost, troop supplies, our pethatic salaries? We bought migs on an off set program with palm oil…. go figure. BTW check our Little pie chart and see how much the military gets in that whole huge pie then come back and rant. Our spending is half of that of Singapore but 500% more land/sea mass to cover and secure.

sheriff singh Says:
Shouldn’t our Generals, Admirals and Air Commdores be sacked for their inabilities to maintain a fully operational fighting force? What if our country was suddenly invaded by Klingons or Morons. Will our excuses count and enough to repel them?

IF it is a maintainance issue why should the generals BE included in this drama? If your company car was crashed by your worker do you fire the boss? what the hell man? Put your self in the shoes of the military should the entire military be shot down over one persons neglect (if it was neglect) If it was and accident then should he The person WHO will be your line of defence in time of war should be treated with so much disrespect? If your disagreement is with the goverment then settle it with the gov. Dont forget When shit comes to blow i am not surprised you will be the first one on out of the country.

sheriff singh Says:
“The Defence Minister must bear all blame for all the deaths and for the deaths to come in the next 3 years when the Nuris are still being used.”

Too many air crashes all the time. If it is not some plane or other, its some helicopter. We must be very “sway”.

EVERY country has crashes some form or another the past plane crashes happend during training. Pilots are pushed to their limit (BECAUSE if they dont i am sure a new rant about how slacking they are and a waste of our countries money will come up right??) US in iraq had one of the worse man made mistake when 2 helicopters crash into each other due to pilot error should bush be shot for that? WE took an oath to defend this country by putting our lives on the line so much for the public respect.

Also even if a contract is sign today LOGICALLY it will take more than 3 years for the new helicopters to arrive this is not like buying a new car lol.

sheriff singh Says:
But nobody is ever blamed or held accountable. Life is cheap in Bolehland. Just another statistic.

Yes i am a statistic and my life is cheap… I notice one thing in bolehland every one talks no one acts.

I am sorry i am a supporter of the opposition and there are problems in our country, but to point the finger at the people who put their lives on the line every day is a disrespect to the thing you and all of us hold dearly. There ARE problems in our military, mostly its politicians getting in the way of military planners. What we want tends to be what the politicians can get.

Wasn’t it not just last year or so that there was another scandal about our Armoured personnel Carriers (APCs)? That most of them were not-operational (out of service) because of the lack of spare parts and lack of maintenance and know-how?

How come with so much money allocated for our armed forces annually in our budget and development plans that we have this “breakdown syndrome”?

Shouldn’t our Generals, Admirals and Air Commdores be sacked for their inabilities to maintain a fully operational fighting force? What if our country was suddenly invaded by Klingons or Morons. Will our excuses count and enough to repel them?

The Defence Minister must bear all blame for all the deaths and for the deaths to come in the next 3 years when the Nuris are still being used.

Too many air crashes all the time. If it is not some plane or other, its some helicopter. We must be very “sway”.

But nobody is ever blamed or held accountable. Life is cheap in Bolehland. Just another statistic.