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tuition_city SG

hi all, i’m an armourer..unit armourer…out from OETI and den ORD-ed already..just wanna know where i’ll be posted to for reservist training and as wad??? and which units??? how long for reservists?? etc??? i’m PES A..so how? will that make a difference?? i’m a specialist…yah thanxs!!

wuming78 SG

your vocation should be the same - armament tech. as for the unit, you will have to wait for notification. pes a - well u went to oeti even though u were pes a. Wink

tvdog SG

Not necessarily so. There is a thing called PDF, and that's where non-combat vocation people suddenly find themselves being riflemen.

My cousin was an armourer during his time in NSF. He became rifleman during reservist. He loved it.

I was in the S2 branch and was posted to rifleman during reservist after 2 in-camps. I'm a corporal but all Int NCO were sergeants and above. But I was given the option to stay by my S2 but I opted to go ahead with the transfer.

In my PDF unit all riflemen were former storemen, cooks, etc. But my company all very on because they were quite proud to be riflemen. Kena best company 2 years in a row. Very good bunch. Mostly hokkien peng.

Infantry quite fun lah. But I kena platoon runner, quite siong but still more fun than being stuck in a CP with all the officers around. More fresh air in a trench than a CP.

sgboy2004 SG

wat does armourer do???

tvdog SG

aiyo, armourer repairs and maintains all the weapons loh...

Very cushy job only problem always kenna grease and weapon oil on your hands and overalls.

But good thing is my cousin - who also had knowledge of machining tools - said he can easily build a crude but workable gun from what he's learnt as an armourer!

tuition_city SG

but those who revocate become rifleman are MEN not specialist rite? den sergeant become infantry? so weird..

foga SG

sargent ehm si lang meh.....

ha ya when u orded one?
recieved ur saf100?

still confused can always call 1800 EMINDEF for details. that side infor cfm zhun one.....

zenmaster SG

normally, storeman and cooks are PES C. so, how can they be revocate as rifleman? Question

tvdog SG

I'm sure many storemen and cooks are Pes C but no, man, there are a lot of storemen and cooks who are Pes A. But in PDF I think Pes B and maybe some Pes C can also be rifleman.

My NSF unit armskote man, a talk sikh was slightly over weight as a young NSF man. Later on in my PDF unit he was leaner and fitter and was onne of our SAW gunner.

Another from my unit was a really bad-ass storeman (he's a friend), he also became a rifleman. I think he was storeman because he's considered untrainable in combat role where small dose of discipline is required.

And all the other chaps in the entire PDF were formerly not in combat role but Pes A.

Maybe you're surprised to learn that so many Pes A people are not in combat roles.

zenmaster SG

I am not surprised at all. I for one, is PES A and I am in the service vocation. In fact, those that attended the Supply NCO course with me in the now-defunct SQM are either PES A or B.

If the storemen has converted to rifleman, then wat happened to the QM platoon? Logistics in a PDF unit is no joke. Wink

tvdog SG

I guess they have more storemen than they need. But as I stress, it's not just storemen, it everybody else.

One QM clerk also from my NSF unit became assistant to the GPMG gunner in the Support Company. Damn suay. Carry ammo and spare barrel or sometimes tripod, hahahaha...

But I became platoon runner and once or twice section commander when they don't have enough sergeants. I'm hentak-kaki corporal becos kenna problem before... got charged during reservist for AWOL.

I left country to work after NSF for a short one year but didn't do my exit permit properly even though I did write a letter to my unit. Come back kenna charge. S$400 fine.

My corporal friends all became sergeants already whereas I hentak-kaki and went from Bn HQ S2 branch to company line in another unit. My S2 offered to overturn my posting but I enjoy company line a lot more than Bn HQ so I became rifleman.

Platoon runner even more suay than support company becos carry the PRC-77 set. Must be fitter than all the other guys cos I carry more weight than them and expected to run up and down the column during route march to relay mssg between the front where the PC is and the back where the PL Sgt is cos each platoon only one comms set.

Then during deployment gotta set up telejay comms and dig shellscrape for the officer, PL Sgt and myself. Dig whole night until cannot stand straight. Na bei...

LazerLordz SG

So..raising the interesting question of a 3SG (NS) fella who becomes a rifleman or a infanty leader during reservist..How true is this?It should only affect those PES A and B right?

tvdog SG

Most modern armies, at any one time, is made up of more non-combatants than combatants. I read in a few places that the US Army during Vietnam War has a ratio of something like 3 (or more) service/support personnel for every one fighting personnel.

I found this quite hard to believe cos when you're in battalion, the fighting men definitely out-numbers the service/support personnel.

But since this is a published fact, there must be some truth in it. Maybe if you add up all the HQ staff from Bn to Div to Corps etc. If you add all the mechanics, technicians, logistics at supply and maintenance depots etc, the real figure becomes quite huge.And then maybe there are some instances where reservist aren't required like medical centres, radar operators, air-defence weapons etc cos there's always some regulars or NSF manning those equipment 24/7.

So if such a case is true of SAF also, then it is no surprise that a lot of former HQ, service personnel end up as battalions of riflemen. Speculation only, don't challenge me.

deathscythe99 SG

No such vocation as armourer la....

It's ARMAMENT TECHNICIAN

LazerLordz SG

LOL.Armament Tech II and Armament Spec Tech II Cool

tvdog SG

Aiya, I old man OK lah! Last time call armourer, what armament tech 123 ?

Last time just Private, Lance corporal, Corporal and Sergeant. Where got Specialist all dat. So complicated.

It's actually quite funny, when we went for reservist and we were all vey confused with the new rank terms and insignia. We used to call those new corporal stripes with the semi-circle on top as "Staff Corporal".