izit? they provide such services now? lol. from wat i learnt
when i was in NSHRC, nssc encourage ppl to go down and return those
stuffs leh.
Dunno. I think I was given a phone number & web address in
the letter to contact about settling "admin details". But, yeah,
I'll probably return them someday, in lieu of throwing them away.
Until then, they have "sentimental value" ~lol~
Quite surprised to learn how premature some of you guys are
returning the stuff, actually. Maybe it's cuz of Pes C or with the
RSAF or something, assuming there's a formal discharge in the first
place.
In my case, my unit had to spend an additional 9 months on Reserve
Extended Holding status (no ICT, no IPPT, no mob, but reportable
back only in real call-up) after we finished our cycle, while
waiting to for an ORD-ing NSF unit to replace us in the ORBAT.
Purely bureaucratic move, with the KAHs & IOU cases already
recycled on & the rest of us bo-chap.
Thereafter, it's posted on to MR proper under the Army Operational
Reserve designation. The two obligations I can think of during this
period were retaining our issued equipment & needing to apply
exit permits -- although, until recently, we were also required to
update MINDEF on overseas notifications (i.e. shorter trips). More
speculative was whether the mobilisation codewords were still
relevant to those AOR troops, cuz there was no proper briefing on
this. Presumably so, but only in a real-war setting.
The true parole from NS liability, with our unit explicitly
disbanded & rendered defunct on any MINDEF register, took place
when we turned 40 (or 50).
There, I don't think I've revealed any trade secrets either.
