Maintenance and Engineering Support is the formation of the

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responsible for military engineering maintenance. It provides maintenance and engineering support to the Army by ensuring high operational equipment readiness for the Army and the

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(SAF) at sustainable budget and manpower resources. It also train technicians and operator-maintainers (OMers) to perform field repairs in military exercises and training. The formation also has collaborations with other organisations such as the

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(DSTA),

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and the National Additive Manufacturing and Innovation Cluster (NAMIC).

History

The formation started as HQ Maintenance in 1984 to oversee the Army's maintenance battalions and maintenance training school. In 1994, it was renamed Maintenance and Engineering Support (MES) after the reorganisation of Army Logistics Command (ALCOM) and G4 Army. MES received the

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certification in 1995, People Developer Standard in 2001,

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certification in 2002, and

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certification in 2005. The MES formation shifted from Ayer Rajah Camp to Kranji Camp III in 2010. In April that year, the

(SAF) had introduced the Military Domain Experts Scheme (MDES), a separate rank structure which runs parallel to the SAF's conventional rank system. MES regulars who have converted to the MDES, or joined after the MDES was introduced, hold ranks from Military Expert 1 (ME1) to Military Expert 8 (ME8).

Operations

The MES formation has provided support to the SAF in

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and peace support operations over the years, such as during the 1986 Hotel New World collapse in Singapore, the

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, and in Afghanistan in 2010 when the SAF's Weapon Location Radar (WLR) engineering team provided field innovation to sustain the radar under harsh environmental conditions.

References

{{Singapore Armed Forces Military units and formations established in 1984 Formations of the Singapore Army