That is generally true. But no matter what, whether it is NSF in SPF or SAF, it is still worse off than those FT scholars who need not serve at all. An example is one of the passenger on the ill-fated MH370. He was on a govt scholarship for foreigner just finishing his A level in SAJC. Instead of serving NS like his Singaporean male cohorts , he was on a leisure trip to Beijing.
Those who serve NS in the SPF are better off than those tiok SAF. More senang during basic training and can swich off till ROD or whatever the new t
erminology is -ORD?