MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho — About six months into his posting to the Republic of Singapore Air Force's Peace Carvin V detachment in Idaho, US, Military Expert 5 (ME5) Esley Pwee received a text from his older sister Emily.It wasn't to check in on how he was doing, but to ask what items ME5 Esley's three-year-old son Hayden would like.That was how the 32-year-old senior maintenance officer learnt that Emily, a military intelligence expert with the Singapore Armed Forces' (SAF) Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS), would be joining him in the US for Exercise Forging Sabre.Held from Sept 6 to 21 at Mountain Home Air Force Base, this year's sense and strike exercise involves over 800 personnel from the Singapore Army, RSAF, DIS and the defence technology community.It is both ME4 Emily, 37, and ME5 Esley's second time at Exercise Forging Sabre, but their first time participating together. Read more