Mother of a NS man

[lee6100]

No, and you?

Bravo Coy, 1st SMC.

 

[chonburifc]

My time only SOH got free....the rest can order one at $75 each

NW, you are Ah Sir? Reservist obligation until when?

 

[Narong Wongwan]

NW, you are Ah Sir? Reservist obligation until when?

Now encik also call ah sir liao.....no more obligations....i throw out all the army stuff some years back while shifting house.....been to one or two reservist call up then no more. IPPT siam ka liao. Serve And Fuckoff

 

[chonburifc]

Dio liaoz. Serve and Fxxkoff. Didn't know now warrant officer is called Sir. My time, CSM (staff sergeant nia) have to call encik liaoz.

Anyway, the best present I received from MINDEF is my pes C2N9 after I ROD and last letter from them was "Thank you for your wasting so many years of your time, you are old and cannot run, so fxxk off". No need to do any exit permit or NSMen notifications!

 

[Charlie99]

Bravo Coy, 1st SMC.

You are probably one year my senior. Theoretically, I should be 3 SMC, but for whatever reasons, I had to go through the "old route", BMT at SAFTI, SISL at SAFTI, a corporal at an infantry battalion (very shortly after I was posted there, it was announced that I was selected for the senior term of 4 SMC). Very long route for me, and although, I strived to be the Best Recruit or Best Traineee, eventually, at SATO, I was the top candidate.

 

[chonburifc]

You are probably one year my senior. Theoretically, I should be 3 SMC, but for whatever reasons, I had to go through the "old route", BMT at SAFTI, SISL at SAFTI, a corporal at an infantry battalion (very shortly after I was posted there, it was announced that I was selected for the senior term of 4 SMC). Very long route for me, and although, I strived to be the Best Recruit or Best Traineee, eventually, at SATO, I was the top candidate.

Hi Charlie, I was taught the opposite when I was in NS. Never be the best and never be the worst. Just be in the middle and the 2.5 years will past quickly and smoothly.

 

[lee6100]

You are probably one year my senior. Theoretically, I should be 3 SMC, but for whatever reasons, I had to go through the "old route", BMT at SAFTI, SISL at SAFTI, a corporal at an infantry battalion (very shortly after I was posted there, it was announced that I was selected for the senior term of 4 SMC). Very long route for me, and although, I strived to be the Best Recruit or Best Traineee, eventually, at SATO, I was the top candidate.

Well done! Nice to meet a fellow Lau Peng. I was first batch NS officer to do SATO in 1976. R. Menon was CO SATO then. Those days, like you, we were really motivated. There was something worth fighting for. Now....????

 

[Charlie99]

Well done! Nice to meet a fellow Lau Peng. I was first batch NS officer to do SATO in 1976. R. Menon was CO SATO then. Those days, like you, we were really motivated. There was something worth fighting for. Now....????

Congratulations!
You may know of one of my schoolmates, Ong Kok Ning, 1SMC, probably went to SATO with you. I believe that he signed on as a regular for a few years (3 SIR or 4 SIR), then went to Bizad at SU or NUS.
I have lived in Toronto for more than 30 years.

 

[Charlie99]

Bravo Coy, 1st SMC.

If you from 1 SMC, and then attended SATO, you may know 2 of my friends who are from 1 SMC and also attended SATO: Ong Kok Ning and Tan Bong Lin.

 

[red amoeba]

i enlist in 96 so consider a old man? when i enlist, still have army cooks but ord after cookhouse become outsource. in the past, color water only served at lunch on tue & thur and taste like sky juice that have color in it. the roti are from changi prison which can be use as sandpaper. the only way to swallow it was to drip it first in whatever hot drink the cook serve at breakfast. The only ok food to eat at bf was the hardboil egg which even the cooks had no abilities to screw it up. margerine was the the big tin planta brand, occasionally there will be jam. the worst thing i ever had at bf was yam cake which was stone cold, apparently the duty cook woke up late and no time to steam the yam cake and he serve it cold. he also unlucky as then 46 just change RSM and he arrive at 0600 to eat bf with the trooper kias and he saw what was serve and charge the cook on the spot. the farker went DB for a month for it. that RSM really good, he make sure the men are taken care of and he only go after the NCOs and those HQ warriors.

Early outsource cookhouse are much better than nowaday. the first place to have the cookhouse outsource were the BMTC and then parents accompany son on the first day tour just started. i was posted to tekong after unit shut down for 6mth. i had my first outsource cookhouse food at camp3. it was great and being perm staff, we can take all six dishes while the recruit must choose 2 out of 4 meat and 1 out of 2 veggie. after almost 20 mths of saf cook standard, it was like heaven in tekong. The tekong caterer was ntuc foodfare, not SFI. after return to gedong, the cookhouse at 42 were outsource first because brigade HQ are over there. some of the 46men kenna caught for eating there but i didnt bother. IMHO, the last few ICT b4 i MR, the SFI cookhouse were only a couple of notches above SAF cooks, many of us reservists give lousy rating to the cookhouse food till the trainers come to the coyline to find out why rating so low.

bro, reading your post arouse sentiments...the yam cake is fondly known as shit cake esp after the gravy is poured over it.

lunch is always the mercy of the cooks...if they are not happy or dun like your face, you get soup and the way they ladle it roughly onto your mess tray means half of it overspilled and you are left with a paltry portion. The lucky ones have 2 fishballs in the soup.

Ask for more rice? You get a gigantic scoop plonked in your mess tray - and a kway lan smirk.

the best food i recall was always fridays where they hve special meals - away from the rice + curry + bland veg. Fish / meat is always deep fried till dry & coarse.

then there is cookhouse duty under the cold stare of the BSO (is it BSO, he wear a fucking red thing slung across his shoulder). Lugging the fucking food containers is no joke and then to push the rubbish truck to the rubbish dump. CCB

 

[Charlie99]

bro, reading your post arouse sentiments...the yam cake is fondly known as shit cake esp after the gravy is poured over it.

lunch is always the mercy of the cooks...if they are not happy or dun like your face, you get soup and the way they ladle it roughly onto your mess tray means half of it overspilled and you are left with a paltry portion. The lucky ones have 2 fishballs in the soup.

Ask for more rice? You get a gigantic scoop plonked in your mess tray - and a kway lan smirk.

the best food i recall was always fridays where they hve special meals - away from the rice + curry + bland veg. Fish / meat is always deep fried till dry & coarse.

then there is cookhouse duty under the cold stare of the BSO (is it BSO, he wear a fucking red thing slung across his shoulder). Lugging the fucking food containers is no joke and then to push the rubbish truck to the rubbish dump. CCB

Perhaps, you mean BOS, as in Battalion Orderly Sergeant.