Does SAF cares about these old warriors?

Dr Who SG

Some became Generals, some became invalids.

Most are old and forgotten

The SAF is good at looking ahead,. planning ahead.

the SAF is also very good at forgetting the past, treat as if these people never existed.....consigned to the rubbish dump. Not like the British army where old soldiers march with the new soldiers on state occasions.......

The great SAF don't even have a proper army museum opened to the public. It's as if they are shy about their past. All they have is some small bungalow to commorate Lt Adnan at the battle at Opium Hill. Nothing for the 200 years of soldering in Singapore. Nothing for Dalforce. Nothing for the pioneers of the post-65 SAF.......nothing........nothing......

edwin3060 SG

Dude... drugs are illegal in Singapore, stop taking them!

deathmaster SG

think there's a museum dedicated to the history of NS over at discovery center.

gary1910 SG

You sure or not?

The best time to sign on was in the early 70s where SAF was growing so needed a lot of regulars, but problem was at that time ,not many wanted to sign on especially the Chinese.

Those sign on then were mostly under Pensionary Service(PS), i.e. iron rice bowl plus pension after retirement!

Those regulars that were outstanding went thru fast track promotion due to the growing SAF.

But in the 80s,this started to change, not many get PS except outstanding one who later were converted from Contract Service(CS) to PS.

Then from late 80s onward, if the regulars were offered 3 yrs extension of CS instead of 6 yrs, it was SAF way to tell you after that 3 yrs, your service was no longer required!!!

I am not sure abt what is the situation now, but I dun think that it will be better than in the 70s.

Arapahoe SG

yeah i think back then if you walk around with 2 square on the shoulder it looks really Big. Unlike these days the 2 stripes on the shoulder look kinda of small.