IMHO, if you're a trainee in SISPEC courses, you'd probably be
too engrossed in the packed training schedule as to really have any
use for the Cpl rank to pull about in your training unit; wearing
the Cpl rank has no 'power' application at all because there'd no
men under you. Unless you say it's to flaunt it outside camp, to
kinda 'show off'.
So probably MINDEF have thought it thoroughly and felt that it
doesn't really compromise on the status of so-called rank 'power'
for the trainees. SCT cannot pull rank. I guess as a Specialist
trainee holding Cpl rank doesn't actually give you any chance of
pulling rank for the duration of the Specialist training
course.
But the slight advantage of slightly higher pay of a SCT
compared to a Cpl, does speak volumes of the weightage and
recognition given to the wannabes of the Specialist Corps.
The CPL rank doesn't do much but at least you cannot be fucked
by LCPs etc :p
Our WOs always use to tell us that when you see the OCTs in
their white bars, fuck them all you like before their bars turn
black :p Now theres SCTs to join them. Anyway, alot of ppl are
saying the SCT's main purpose is to not make the OCTs the lowest
rank in the army after REC :p