Food for Thought...
Why do the majority of NSmen simply just want to ORD to return
to the civilian citizen-soldier way of life?
To most NSmen, the abbreviation for SAF is Serve And F--- Off far far away.
Please advise your son to enlist for NS first to get to know and
experience the NS system, the SAF bureaucratic way of
administration first...etc.
Don't let your son sign on the contractual bond before he even
experience the organisation first-hand. If not, he will just regret
to reluctantly sell a few years of his soul to the bureaucracy
instead of practising tolerance of the NS system for just 2 years
only.
Enlist for NS first, experience a few months of NS until he get
posted to a permanent NS unit after the BMT to get to know the real
and actual military soldier life. BMT is simply a fun, adventure
camping phase. Actual NS military unit life is much more military
regimental and disciplined.
When he truly, madly and deeply like the military in the NS
unit, then it is still not late to sign on to be a professional
career soldier. Otherwise, it is a blessing to just tolerate the
full-time NS (NSF) for 2 short years, waiting to countdown to ORD
to be a civilian/ a NSman/ a reservist.