page_title: Singapore Armed Forces Best Unit Competition
section_title: Active Navy units
hierarchical_section_title: Singapore Armed Forces Best Unit Competition / Past active unit winners / Active Navy units
caption_attribution_description: English: The Republic of Singapore Navy corvette RSS Victory (88) fires its 76mm gun at a surface target during a gunnery exercise with the U.S. Navy as part of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), a series of bilateral exercises held annually in Southeast Asia to strengthen relationships and enhance the operational readiness of the participating forces. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Ed Early/Released)
context_page_description: The Singapore Armed Forces Best Unit Competition is an annual competition which confers awards of recognition to the most outstanding units of the Singapore Armed Forces in combat readiness, operational proficiency and administrative excellence. Besides encouraging the above, the award also seeks to promote esprit-de-corps and camaraderie among participating Army, Air Force and Navy units through friendly competition.
  The assessment factors of the competition are:
  Combat Proficiency Test
  Marksmanship Test
  Individual Physical Proficiency Test
  Standard Obstacle Course
  Unarmed Combat
  Security
  Manpower Matters
  Logistics Readiness Inspection
  Vehicle State
  Training Safety
  The competition was started for active SAF units in 1969, before being extended to the reservist units in 1993. These units are conferred their awards at the annual Singapore Armed Forces Day parade.
  The types of units that participate include:
  Singapore Infantry Regiment
  Singapore Combat Engineers
  Ordnance Supply Base, the Kranji base
context_section_description: Two new awards in maritime security and in naval engineering and logistics were introduced in 2015.
caption: RSS Victory
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