Very well then. In fact, I read this post before I read the
other.
Originally posted by lotus:
I totally agree with what 35MM Gunner said.
For those who died serving the SAF during peace time, it is a loss
to SG as there are lesser and lesser males to do NS. Also my
sympathies to the family of the late for the pain and anguish they
are going thru. Life and death is already predestined. When the
time for a person is up, no matter what he/she is doing, they will
leave this world. There are news reported that a healthy person
could die when sleeping etc... Get what I am trying to
say?
Like I said in my last post - predestined death and other such
errant supestitions. GOONDU.
I did my NS from '92 to '94. We had been 'tekan' as and
when the specialists like and also the harsh trainings yet no one
died (of course to compare my time and those who serve NS earlier
than me, mine is nothing to them).
Read MY post - 1990 to 1993, starting out at Netheravon Road and
ending at Hendon Camp. I am easily more qualified than you are to
talk about these matters, and even in light of that, I say that the
instructor, who is more than likely to have been one of my
contemporaries, is caterogiaclly wrong in his actions, even if the
trainee was "predestined" 
to die.
Before these 3 sad incidents happen, countless of men
died in peace time training, but the attention was not as big as
this and mostly all have been covered up. NSF today are given too
much welfare, with what Defence Minister said in parliment
yeasterday, I believe it will be more switch off..e.g. compulsory
lights off at 10pm, after which no more 'tekan' or standby bed,
sekali now abolished liao.
NS is supposed to turn boys to man with those tough trainings and
discipline but now, I think boys after NS are still boys...
Tough guy, huh? Aw boohoo, Mr I-did-my-hard-times wants to match
up? Don't even bother trying.
Can we depend on SAF to defend SG when there is a crisis
in future? NOoooo! I can't imagine too much anyway it will never
happen. I suggest MINDEF withdraw all the 'garang' ads and
commerical available to the public to save $$$ if our army are
going soft. Let's hope Tim Huxley won't give our Army discounts in
his next book on SG defence. Slogans quoted from the ads &
commerical, "what u can't defend is not yours", "We never mistake
peacefulness for peace", "who has the training" and more which i
can't remember. puke.....
Yawn......i am getting bored now..
Puke, yawn - you're a troll, so don't go throwing your toys out
of the pram when you are called up on it.
Now your post is there in all of its charmless glory, and it is
utter bilge. Like I said, don't go hiding behind that "what I meant
was" rubbish. Either stop acting like a panty-liner pansy, or stop
talking about being a man because you haven't the slightest
clue.
