Hi Moderator,
Why did you lock the topic on NS?
I think this is a serious topic that concerns the welfare of most
typical male Singaporeans and should not be ignored or shelved
aside.Instead we should all come to reality and come to terms as to
what is practical and sound.
Doing NS for 1 year is not something unreasonable to ask.
Perhaps a novel idea would be to have more than a longer reservist
cycle to compensate for it. Reservist trainings are typical about 2
to 3 weeks. Perhaps there should be more reservist cyles but of a
shorter duration of 1 week training per In-camp training.
NS 1 year:- 2 months BMT, 2 months vocational training, 8 months attachment to
units.
Leave the command school training like SISPEC
& OCS to the regulars who wish to sign on
as a career.
The whole objective is to train soldiers of various vocations to
perform their roles, leave the commander’s roles to the regulars.
In this way for people who wish to make a living out of being in
the regular uniformed organisations, can do so.
My analogy of the most recent debate of slashing weightage of
2nd language for PSLE explains the
vacillating & wishy-washy populist policy-makers, who cave in
so easily for such issues. But NS affects many people & ideas
raised up should not be put under the carpet and conveniently
forgotten.
Please post your views if you think having NS for 1 year is
correct and that the policy should be implemented asap. Thank
you.