Those who are undergoing courses at STC after 4wks of modified
Tekong BMT are Pes C personnel who are allocated service support
vocations because of their PES status which do not qualify them for
combat or combat support vocations.
Basically these NSF personnel would know their respective
allocated vocations after 4wks at Tekong, and they would be taking
up courses according to their allocated vocations at STC.
Whether "research assistant" or "intelligience assistant" or
"supply assistant" or whatever, they are nothing more than a branch
of ASA (Admin Support Asst), in other words, just clerical support
staff who are posted to support admin work on the various brances
of service, be it intelligence or research or stores supply or what
not. They would be trained to be aware of the services that they
are to support, that's all. Simply clerical staff.
