Many cases of NS boys dying...are you worried for your boys?

[kamom]

Joule:

He was promoted posthumously but screw that, I think the parents just wanted their son back

Find this most ridiculous :siao: . What's the whole purpose?

[Daddy D]

Or follow M'sia? 3 months CCA... I mean NS...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_National_Service

Idea for our integration program for new citizens though...
:siam: :razz:

[Joule]

kamom:

Joule:

He was promoted posthumously but screw that, I think the parents just wanted their son back

Find this most ridiculous :siao: . What's the whole purpose?

generally when you die while a trainee, you will be 'promoted' to whatever you're supposed to be you graduate

e.g.

OCT becomes 2Lt, Cpl becomes 3SG and so on...

its an army thing

Didn't you read about the recent Guards trainee? He got his sand coloured Guards beret

[MMM]

kamom:

Joule:

He was promoted posthumously but screw that, I think the parents just wanted their son back

Find this most ridiculous :siao: . What's the whole purpose?

Precisely, I want my son and not some promotion.

[Joule]

well…some deaths can be prevented, but some really can’t…


maybe if all of us wrote to defense ministry to shorten NS or something…

Taiwan already cut ns to 1 yr,

and it’s not like we’re surrounded by unfriendlies

We have the 4th highest defense budget per capita in the world

wonder what goes into all that money, eh?

[Vevey]

MMM:

Of course since we've a ds.

& I have 2.

[concern2]

We are worried - but my DS is even more worried, so much so that we have to try and console him - now army life is better than before, got catered food, got simmons mattress to sleep on, not as bad as it used to be.

[limlim]

Joule:

and it's not like we're surrounded by unfriendlies

It's never good to be complacent.

There wasn't much action around pearl harbor either.. that is, before the sneak attack.

[Daddy D]

limlim:

Joule:

and it's not like we're surrounded by unfriendlies

It's never good to be complacent.

There wasn't much action around pearl harbor either.. that is, before the sneak attack.

A lot of ppl cannot relate to WWII (including me)...
Only in movies...
That's why NS means differently...
:celebrate:

[AnotherKiasu]

Worried ofcourse. I have 2.


Why don’t Mindef reduce the period 2 yrs to 1.5 and eventually to 1 yr only? Taiwan recently reduced to 6 months from 1 year. When I talk to the recent NS guys, I found the whole 2 yrs can be conveniently repacked to 1 yr.

In the modern world, except some rogue countries, every country will think umpteen times before going to war. Then why Sg need to worry so much? In Asia, our country leaders are much responsible than those in middle east.