Unjust: Abuse of Military Rank & Authority

Lokey SG

Actually I know what might be happening. Medic is really the no. 1 slacker job in the SAF.

The medic really doing nothing when they are on medical cover during training. Imagine, we are from the same company, we are in FBO, swearing like mad and being tekan like siao under the hot sun. Then when we raised our head in push up position. And the medic is lying on the stretcher, using his hartman solution as pillow, reading FHM, drinking coffee, fanning with the causalty card, listening to mp3, under the cool windy tree and have a higher pay!!! Sianz.

Actually... to the medic he is doing so many things at one time, really busy. Really busy.

Even overnight medical centre duties, the medic watches TV in the air-conditioned room, eating pizza, play computer games, surfing internet and get off the next day, also very busy. While the men have to walk around the camp, sweating, on a 3 hours shift overnight.

No wonder the men hate the medic so much.

But... even though the medic job is a no1 slacker job. It is the most real applicable useful vocation in the SAF. We are working, while slacking. And every1 wants the medic to be fat and white. Because when the medic is busy, it means that there is casualties and no one want casualties during training or in camp.

Oh! usually the medics are stay out personnel, from 8 to 5.

But there is a problem that came in when the medic is required to chong with the platoon. Too fat cannot run... lol

I remember there is a time when a regular commando who is attached to us during medical training. He is so shock!! First we are so rude, we dont respect his rank at all, then he say this is really picnic, not outfield training. We are like lol. Do you want some Maggi Noodles and banana?

Medic is really one of the most despicable and slacker vocation. But it is very real, as I got real severe causalities before. I had seen death and blood before.

But I am not as lobo as my brother who is a Pes B, Welfare Clerk in the SPF.

Lokey SG

usually if not on medical cover, I will help out in the medical center or in the office. And when book out, will offer to help the men (men and sg) to buy cigarettes and tip bits. ( i dont really consider myself part of the platoon and unit at all). when go canteen, will offer to buy the breakfast/teabreak and coffee for the officer and spec. most important thing is to advise the men how to downgrade … hehehe. I also help in the office to sort out document, because my IT, planning and management skills are better than my medical skills. I hang out with the officers more because we somehow click together.

To think about it, I have never greet or salute officer, SIR before, it is kind of rude… BUT I greet SGT, SGT?

I always tease my regular friend outside and greet or salute them, Sir, though.

One need to understand the need of individuals and provide them with the real help. Then the respect is given. Respect do not came in just like that. But most important thing is I can do at least 30 pull-up at one go. And I can do at least 6 set of 12 pull up in one PT sessions.

insidestory SG

And your equally fanciful leap of logic has jumped canals without much thought either.

TS's complaints are not rare. If you think it's rare, then you have not had the fortune (or misfortune) to have come across them.

A dime a dozen.. many JC kids think they're special and for the rest of us who have left that phase of life behind, we look back and realise that there's nothing special about being from top schools while you're in NS.

Jealousy will always be there. But it's been said that conflict is always a two-way mechanism. No smoke without fire, no wayang without the kulit strings and hell if there's any blowback without a lit match in the first place. Any fellow with common sense would know that the military organisation has different "rules" in effective "socialisation". I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out what comes after that.

Frankly, the world is much larger than this ecology.

No one in this thread thinks that there's anything special to be from 'top sec schools and JC'. (refer to my post above about how 99% of NSFs from RJC and HCI become farmers in life and society anyway).JC, top or not, both are nothing. Its the university degree that dictates the life, not the freaking JC and 99% of students in top JC end up as farmers in NUS/NTU/SMU

Its true that the military has different rules in effective socialisation. Many times, the discrepancy is bridged because the system assigns pretty standardised lots for different groups. Hence its near impossible for a group of men to pick on a spec who came from a supposedly better place for them.

When you put one in a big group of those unlike him in the same appointment, it's the sole feeder fish in a tank of predators of sharks, regardless of how the lone ranger oils the machinery of socialisation.

It is way easier for those in a certain place of authority (sergeant, officer) to talk about being 'nice', reaching out to the men and helping the boys in the course of their NS work-life to win over their trust slowly. NSF officers try that all the time, some succeed.

It's easy to talk 'big' and sound self-righteous from a place of high-horse where you're protected by rank. That's because the rank puts you in a 'safe' place to even begin doing it. To claim that there is no protection from rank is just pure hypocrisy.

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