I guessed time has changed already. I bet all the things
mentioned above is no longer a requirement to pass cause parents
have complained.
How parents came to know? The servicemen complained to their
parents.
I used to have a colleauge asked to do leopard crawl by his
sergeant in
BMTC. He cannot take it n asked his parents to complain to BMTC
higher
command.
Looks like every old generation has something to say about the
newer batches. But is it really fair or rational... that seems to
me another thing.
But really no standard meh? You seriously think that they are
sending deficent troops to be in the front line units? I don't
think so. If you look at most of the requirements that our fighting
grunts have to pass you'll realize that it hasn't changed all that
much.
Is BMTC really a fair place to judge the entire SAF on? Note that
this is a school training recruits from literally all walks of life
as opposed to your mono intake dudes who have been streamed
straight into the fighting vocations. Many of the BMTC recruits end
up in non combat vocations that may result in them not even seeing
another firearm for the rest of their NS, and some were never even
physically able to in the first place.
In the light of all this, are the standards really lower standards
or simply smarter standards? How much exactly can you train a
recruit in the three or so months anyway. We all knew that BMTC was
just more of an induction to military life then anything else...
it's in SISPEC, OCS, and AIT where the real combat training starts
and the standards are really imposed and made to matter.
Is it not counter productive to over train a recruit to be the kind
of soldier that he will not end up being for the rest of his
NS?
At the end of the day BMTC still trains them in the basics of how
to use a rifle, how to shoot it, and some basic movements... but
the real complex stuff like how to actually function as an infantry
unit is taught elsewhere and the standard don't seem all that
reduced to me. When the stuff really hits the fan and we go to war
you aren't exactly going to stick a rifle into a pes C or E dude
and ask him to chiong... if it reached that point it's most likely
we're screwed beyond hope liao.
It seems to me the emphasis is being placed on doing things smarter
rather then tougher... true doing tough stuff is nice to brag about
in forums but you can really win a war without smarts.
Is BMT life easier then the old days? Certainly. But does it mean
that the current SAF recruits are lousy? I doubt it... I think it's
more of apples and oranges... last time is different from
now.
And it would be nice to stop spreading rumors like there's no more
leopard crawl and stuff and spin off like... 56 threads making
noise about things that aren't even true to begin with... take it
from a guy who was in BMTC and eventually became a BMTC instructor:
they still leopard crawl, field camp is 7 days straight, we still
shoot real bullets at them and they have to crawl BIC, 24 click is
still 24 clicks full, and a large number of the recruits can still
do their IPPT and SOC.
The system hasn't gotten that much softer, but it has become more
forgiving to those who obviously are hopeless for soldier stuff and
finds more useful things to do with them. And also some of the dumb
stuff that was found counterproductive like cookhouse cleaning,
excessive boot polishing and using silly Ali Baba bags that make it
impossible to take your things out quickly have been dropped. So
what's the big fuss?
