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First Batch of Singapore Volunteer Corps Completes BMT!!

JohnTan

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For two weeks, Ms Siti Khairunessa Abdul Kadir did not tell her mother that she was picking up basic soldiering skills in Maju Camp.

Instead, the 30-year-old nurse lied that she was overseas on a volunteer mission.

It was only yesterday that Ms Siti, in her green fatigues, revealed what she was really up to - leaving her surprised mother in tears but filled with pride.

She was among the first 226 military volunteers who successfully completed their two-week basic training and became newly minted "soldiers" of the Singapore Armed Forces Volunteer Corps (SAFVC).

They comprised women, first-generation permanent residents and new citizens, all of whom are aged between 18 and 45 and not liable for national service.

At a parade held at Maju Camp yesterday, the volunteers stood up straight with hands clasping their rifles in the blistering heat, while loved ones and friends took photographs and cheered them on.

Among those in uniform was Dr Janil Puthucheary, an MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. The 43-year-old Malaysia-born doctor, who became a Singapore citizen in 2008 before entering politics three years later, signed up to be a security trooper.

The volunteers received their berets from the SAFVC commander, Colonel Mike Tan, witnessed by Minister of State for Defence Mohamad Maliki Osman. Also present were army chief Perry Lim and senior SAF officers.

The trainees will have to spend one or two more weeks familiarising themselves with duties required for one of the 17 vocations they have been assigned to. These include roles such as defence psychologists, medical trainers and security troopers who are armed with rifles and patrol key installations like Changi Airport.

After training, the volunteers will be required to serve up to seven days a year.

Ms Siti, who signed up as a medical trainer, said she kept her parents in the dark because she did not think she would make it through the course.

"I didn't want them to get too excited," said Ms Siti, the second of five children, who added that joining the volunteer corps fit in with her habit of volunteering.

Also wanting to pitch in for the nation's defence was Switzerland- born Singapore permanent resident Philip Von Meyenburg.

The entrepreneur, who has been here since 2007, said he signed up as a security trooper because "you don't get security handed over to you on a plate".

Dr Maliki said he was heartened by the volunteers' "high spirits", adding: "From what I see on their faces and, they said, 'We experienced far more than we expected... It was tough, it had to be tough, we want it to be tough' - that is the kind of thing they were asking for."

The volunteer corps was one of 30 recommendations made by the Committee to Strengthen National Service.

Ms Siti's mother, Madam Rosimah Salam, 55, said: "This girl is always full of surprises... But I'm so proud to see her in uniform and holding a rifle and doing something great for Singapore."

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winnipegjets

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PAP really kiasi ...they form this foreigners only battalion to protect them. PAP knows that sinkees will shoot them when the opportunity opens up.

So the SAFVC is the PAP's new Republican Guards.
 

bigboss

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Are the paps unwittingly opening the back doors for jihadists to harm sinapor?

Surely any ISIS sympathisers could see joining this volunteer corps as the opportunity to get military training and carry arms. They can stay as a mole until time is ripe to revolt, no need to travel to Syria for the training. Sabotage the island from within is more effective. Have the paps considered this possibility?

The paps are certainly short sighted to believe foreigners will die for the island, just because they joined the volunteer corps.
 

eErotica69

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Are the paps unwittingly opening the back doors for jihadists to harm sinapor?

Surely any ISIS sympathisers could see joining this volunteer corps as the opportunity to get military training and carry arms. They can stay as a mole until time is ripe to revolt, no need to travel to Syria for the training. Sabotage the island from within is more effective. Have the paps considered this possibility?

So your point is? Scrape this?
 

JohnTan

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Outsource the army to the foreigners then. NS for foreigners, jobs for locals.

Opposition supporters will always find something to complain about. When foreigners don't serve NS, you complain about "jobs for foreigners, NS for singaporeans". Then when foreigners finally volunteer to serve some form of NS, you say we are outsourcing the army to foreigners [and pose a security threat].

There's no pleasing opposition whiners. They whine about everything.
 

Leepotism

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Opposition supporters will always find something to complain about. When foreigners don't serve NS, you complain about "jobs for foreigners, NS for singaporeans". Then when foreigners finally volunteer to serve some form of NS, you say we are outsourcing the army to foreigners [and pose a security threat].

There's no pleasing opposition whiners. They whine about everything.

Don't talk cock. Shameless dog.
 

bigboss

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....When foreigners don't serve NS, you complain about "jobs for foreigners, NS for singaporeans". Then when foreigners finally volunteer to serve some form of NS, you say we are outsourcing the army to foreigners [and pose a security threat]..

When a foreigner serves NS after getting his shitizenship, he is just performing his NS obligation as a sinaporan. When a foreigner (SPR or porlumpar) takes up military training as a volunteer, why did he volunteer? To get shitizenship?

If so, it means ah tee and ah kow from PRC and the bala and krishna from ah neh land can also become shitizens even though they do not have the special talent to contribute to sinapor.

Be smarter than the foreigners or sinapor is heading for trouble in the long run.
 

winnipegjets

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Opposition supporters will always find something to complain about. When foreigners don't serve NS, you complain about "jobs for foreigners, NS for singaporeans". Then when foreigners finally volunteer to serve some form of NS, you say we are outsourcing the army to foreigners [and pose a security threat].

The foreigner-only Republican Guards is not serving NS. 2.5 years plus 40 years of reservist ...that is NS. The SAFVS is a paint-ball vacation camp for foreigners only. They learn how to bang, bang, bang for fun.
Shows how desperate the PAP is ...need foreigners to protect them from the rising of sinkees.
 

bigboss

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Or better can they fight ISIL?

The question should be - What happens if they want to fight for ISIL? What can the paps do about it? Military training in sinapor to join ISIL in Syria, no need to go there for the training. Half baked Australians are already there in Syria to fight for the mad miltants. Would it happen in sinapor?
 

bigboss

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They learn how to bang, bang, bang for fun.

When foreigners are trained to bang, bang, bang, it is not for fun to them. It is training to handle weapons to kill and maim. Which country trains foreigners to take up arms in its own territory?

So, should a group of foreigners of the volunteer corp decide to take on the SAF, what would the paps do?
 

steffychun

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The question should be - What happens if they want to fight for ISIL? What can the paps do about it? Military training in sinapor to join ISIL in Syria, no need to go there for the training. Half baked Australians are already there in Syria to fight for the mad miltants. Would it happen in sinapor?

dont blame the Aussies. Malaysians are there .
 
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