SAF institute named after Goh Keng Swee
Founding father's beliefs laid foundation for forces' transformation
By Jermyn Chow
At the ceremony yesterday were (from left) Commandant of the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College Colonel Ng Kin Yi, DPM Teo, Chief of Defence Force Neo Kian Hong, commandant of Safti BG Lim Teck and Mr Goh Kian Chee, son of the late Dr Goh. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
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AS THE architect of Singapore's defence policies in the mid-1960s, the late Dr Goh Keng Swee built up the fledgling Singapore Armed Forces that would go on to become today's Third-Generation fighting force.
The efforts of one of Singapore's founding fathers were commemorated yesterday when the SAF's highest institution for training senior officers, the Singapore Command and Staff College, was renamed the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College.
It is the first of two institutes to take on the name of the prominent Old Guard minister, who was also known for his seminal contributions to education.
A new complex, to be built at the Education Ministry's North Buona Vista Road headquarters to train teachers, will be renamed the Goh Keng Swee Centre for Education.
Dr Goh died last May at the age of 91.
The renaming of the SAF institute was first announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National Day Rally last August.
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