I think the idea is to make them contribute to Singapore as
well. As it is these women folk of ours just breeze into uni, and
then go on to the working world and leave their peers 3 years
behind.
I was thinking, that their NS requirement should be:
1)also 2-2.5 years, with reservist up till 13 cycles like us (or
age 55 like officers LOL)
2) They should be sent incamp to do signaller, medic, HQ job,
armourer, vehicle repair jobs if in the army, air force or navy. If
in the SCDF, then everything also can. Like Israel, they should
also all be trained to shoot and have basic marksmanship training
and if in the army, be trained to operate at platoon level. Those
with promise can go on to OCS or other combat fields, but no
standards should be lowered for them.
3) They can serve their 'time' if in a combat vocation 'one-shot'
like us. If in service vocation, then they should be held for
longer, come for 2-3 week training cycle and come down once every
6-8 months for exercise and refresher course
cos in our people scare land, every non-combat role filled by a
woman frees up more manpower to go to the field...this makes for a
more combat effective force.
Same thing happened in Germany, Russia, and the the European
coutries during WW2...the men went to fight and the women filled
all the support roles.
Whatever it is, i'm just opposed to the fact that all the women get
off scot free now in S'pore and just enjoy the peace and prosperity
brought on by us guys. They shop and drink cofffe at Starbucks
while we sit with FBO during 4 NTM.
We crawl in mud and burn our weekends and they sit in aircon NUS,
NTU and study.
And when we are working we have to go back for reservist and they
just continue working.
The worst thing is that they don't even seem to appreciate the
emormous sacrifice that we men are making for the country.
It's about time they gave something back.
And sorry girls, if you're reading this, motherhood isn't
NS!
