He joined NCC for the experience — somewhere along the way, it became so much more

Joining the National Cadet Corps (NCC) as a teenager in secondary school, Major (MAJ) Brandon Lim wasn’t exactly brimming with confidence. “When I first joined, I was a bit hesitant and unsure of myself,” the 31-year-old Guards Officer recalls. Sixteen years later, that somewhat uncertain teenager has become a Major in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), having found his calling in the Singapore Army. Also an Assistant Director (Public & Digital Comms) at Ministry of Defence Communications Organisation, he credits many of those formative experiences back to his days as an NCC cadet. With NCC shaping the trajectory of his life, MAJ…