Also last time where got bread from Top, the bread was so rough can use them as sandpaper. heard from old birds that the bread were made by inmates of changi prison and the bedsheets and pillow case were also washed by them. Wonder now still got bedsheet I/C or not?
And what about pasting brown papers on the cupboard and throwing water on them to made them taut only to have the NCOs..nebeh... tear one big hole in them the next morning during inspection.
How come no one mentioned, you had to starch and iron your 'No.3' for drill till it stands when you place it down. For the current generation of guys, I'm not sure if they know what is 'No.3'.
I really can't understand why recruits have to be ferried on aircon buses to range / exercise.. and aircon in OCS bunks ...
Maybe the NSFs are dropping dead because no aircon
huh is that allowed.....i thought the sheets must be tied at both ends and pull so tight that the sgt will do the bouncing coin test...
knn no wonder every year they increase the defence budget...
We will never know how transparent the tendering process is for these SAF contracts
You see typewriters in the S1 office.
You know you are getting old, if during your NS days:
- You were trained to use M16 and have no idea what SAR21 is.
[*]You used a metal tray for meals, and you had to wash them after use.
[*]You were "served" by army regulars (who will show you a fcuk face and scold you for not holding your tray properly) during mealtimes in cookhouse.
[*]Your sergeant was simply know as "Sergeant", and has only 3-stripes.
[*]You did not hear of any NSman "dying suddenly".
[*]You were known as the "second-generation thinking soldiers".
[*]You had to do "area cleaning" every morning.
[*]You were ferried from one place to another in 3-tonners, not air-con buses.
[*]You had to Q to use the public phone whenever you have to make a call.
[*]Your combat rations consisted of "dog biscuits" + canned sardines + canned pork cubes.
[*]You wear dog-tags because you were told to do so and had no choice; not because it was "fashionable".
[*]You were issued those cheapo china-made black PT shoes (and yet you were able to pass IPPT using them).
or having to polish the boots until "kilat kilat"...
The legendary Ali Baba bag is also extinct. Nowadays the recruits have this black luggage case complete with wheels and pulling handle. Simi lanjiao man, NSF suddenly become SIA girl.
only applicable to camp that had muslim soldiers. ie, Infantry and Guards. During my BMT at Tekong also not allow, DI tell stories of kenna process by Hantu because eat pork bun in bunk. But after POP, kenna posted to armour, there can immediately know that racial harmony are bullshit as there no muslim there. There the trainers will indoctrine everyone that cannot trust muslim, a strictly chinese only unit, even the indians are for HQ company only, none in combat team. Even the cookhouse didnt not cater to muslim, always remember that "enemy battlion" NCOs came for briefing for Atec, some of them are malays, which mean no food for them as they refuse vegetarian food so lan lan had to use landrover to send them back to their unit for lunch then come back in the afternoon for additional briefing.Oh yeah, in Sungei Gedong, nobody give a hoot about eating pork inside bunk.