Missing birthdays, no contact with loved ones: Sacrifices made in the secret lives of Singapore's submariners
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Kee Kian Peng was part of Singapore’s first foray into the submarine domain in the 1990s. Today, his son Jie En is a crew member in the country’s latest and most modern submarine. SINGAPORE: Anxiety gripped him as the roaring racket of waves echoed throughout the vessel. It was, after all, the first time Kee Jie En was in the closed confines of a submarine diving deep into the sea. “You don’t normally hear water crashing above you,” said the 23-year-old Military Expert (ME1) in the Singapore
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