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08 October 2009
"OPERATION LION HEART" (PADANG CITY, SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE) SCDF Operation Lionheart deployment to Padang City, Sumatra Earthquake - Situation Update 6

39 members of the 42-member SCDF Lionheart Contingent has returned to Singapore today, 8 October 09 (Thursday) at 2.45pm in 2 RSAF C-130 aircrafts. 2. Photographs of Comr Peter Lim, Commissioner SCDF, welcoming the contingent at Paya Lebar Airbase are attached.3. A 3-man SCDF medical team, comprising a Doctor and two Paramedics, were deployed to assist the SAF Medical Team at its medical facility in Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah Pariaman (Pariaman Hospital) since yesterday, 7 October 09. They will return to Singapore together with the SAF Medical Team upon the completion of their medical mission.