The Forward Support Group forms the backbone of the exercise, doing everything from setting up campgrounds to vehicle maintenance to medical support.
ME3 Chen Tianxing, who is the Forward Support Group Maintenance 2IC at Exercise Wallaby, is responsible for ensuring that assets are well maintained and kept operationally ready. SHOALWATER BAY, Queensland: For soldiers participating in the Singapore Armed Forces' largest unilateral overseas training exercise, the Forward Support Group plays an integral but occasionally overlooked role.
“400-plus assets is really a huge number,” he said, glancing at rows of Terrexes, Belrex protected combat support vehicles, Leopard 2SG main battle tanks and Bronco all-terrain tracked carriers behind him, covered in desert dust.The Bionix Counter-Mine Vehicle is among more than 420 assets at Exercise Wallaby 2023.
The vehicles include tanks, five-tonners that transport troops or goods, a Trailblazer counter-mine vehicle used to disable land mines, and wheeled or armoured recovery vehicles that tow away broken-down machines.Like a Lego set, the vehicles were then disassembled and thoroughly washed, before their individual parts were examined by an Australian inspector to ensure they were free of mud and sand.
Vendors set up the tents while FSG oversees everything that goes inside them, like the cot beds that soldiers sleep on. Once training exercises begin, FSG's maintenance personnel are in charge of keeping the vehicles in tip-top shape and making repairs when necessary.
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