General Ahmad Hasbullah Mohd Nawawi

Dear Sir, I think you should worry about obsolete equipment like the Sibmas, the Turkish Gempita which is actually a hulk of scrap metal, sold to us because of the incompetency of the Military Leadership! The Gempita has a very high silhouette. Since when has Turkey been advanced in producing high tech armoured vehicles. We are the only country who bought this pile of scrap metal.  

Our 63 tanks of which only a handful are road worthy, less if you count combat worthiness. Indonesia, Vietnam, and India grounded their fleets of Russian supplied jets, tanks, and even submarine from the lack of spares, eventually forcing these countries to source for alternative suppliers of parts.  So are our great Pendekar tanks, from Poland!! The production has ceased and so have the spares.

Our ancient 105 artillery pieces sometimes only a battery which means 6 guns facing off Multiple Launch Rocket Systems in the East. Sibmas against tanks, I can just imagine the East being overrun.

Think about the soldiers quarters, they are in pathetic shape and soldiers live in horrid conditions, with "kangkong" growing in the balconies as sewage water does not run off. Have you looked at the pathetic combat boots we have, when I first joined the Army in 1972 we had combat boots of class, from BATA, now we have Kulit Kraf, which virtually screws up the feet of soldiers. We are not improving but deteriorating. The new combat rations when they were first introduced was great full of body, now diluted with plenty of gravy, I guess the contractor/suppliers are allowed to live off the blood of your soldiers.

Think about the huge number of Generals making up our army. Most of whom are incompetents. Remember the Sulu Invasion. I want to laugh at times. Whatever happened to BMI, looking at the Infantry Officers you don't need Main Battle Tanks, the Infantry Officers look like them. Most of your Generals too look like MBT's.