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Another project doomed to fail.
The paper edition states that the trainers will come from Certis
Cisco. They can hardly get their Auxiliary Police Officers into
IPPT pass standard (most are fat) and SAF are hiring them to
train front line combat troops and reservist's fitness? Furthermore
they are civilians, how about command and control?
All i see is another enterprising business contract. Might as
well scrap NS and hire mercenaries. Or get security companies to
protect our camps. Save our young lads their nights doing guard
duty.
No. I think it is a good idea. The professional physical
trainers will understand the general fitness, better. And able to
benchmark the correct expectation.
I will expect proper physical training and
less causalities.
Think about it, SAF in the past, is stupid enough to select the
fitter boys to go to become PTI. Should they save the elite
for front line vocations? It does not make
sense.
In the past, all the PTIs are so fit and their
expectations are too high. And they end
up overstraining the weaker one. Bear in mind, SAF is
asking the extreme upper quarter of the normal distribution for
fitness level to train the people that stay in the average level
and below. I think recruiting PTI from certis ciso is
feasible and it provide a professional physical training, this will
save manpower, and also able to be update with the current sport
science training methodology.
