well not all from polys,maybe half.ITEs 90% failures.
RUN was from a mono-intake unit. The bulk of mono-intakes' strength are ITE students or O-level holders.
By the time, RUN's unit stood-down, most of us are in 30s:
- the LCPs & CPLs drove as many good cars as the Poly & JC commanders. The carpark was 120% full in our last ICT. We cannot deny that many have progressed in life.
- The richest officer owned a defense-related company but the richest LCP is 3x richer, working for Korean government for procurements in risky third-world countries. If you don't have angkongs, there are some places that you wouldn't go.
- Many of the JC grad worked for civil service and private sector, clocking $5-8k a month. For every JC grad making $10K in my unit, I can name even more LCPs running SMEs, who are doing better.
- A few glamorous JC grads became RMs in top banks but many more LCPs and CPLs have also qualified for priority/premier banking.
- For every demotivated JC grad who suffered depression and fell, there were even more rugged LCPs & CPLs in RUN's unit who faced the challenges in life bravely; taking on dirty-jobs like hawkers, fishmongers, electricians, builders and making as much as their PMET Sergeants and Officers.
Education is good and important but if you look at a cohort when they are 40 years old, you realized that the gap between JC and ITE narrows.
Your discriminations are uncalled for.
Everyone had a different starting line in life but when we returned from outfield, the sergeants and LCP/CPLs would all came together to wash the tracks of our tanks in the washing bay.
WE WERE SOLDIERS
