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Next up for Mindef: BMT reality TV show

http://www.straitstimes.com/Singapore/Story/STIStory_495535.html
THE Defence Ministry started out with news clips posted on its own website.
Then it went for a wider reach on video sharing portal YouTube just over a year ago, with video clips of Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers in training.
Next up: A reality television series on the nine-week-long basic military training (BMT) stint army recruits are put through, which The Straits Times understands will be uploaded as video clips onto the ministry's channel on YouTube.
It is the latest in a line of moves that the Ministry of Defence has taken to reach out to those who would normally not be interested in defence matters.
The intended audience would include those yet to enlist for National Service, as well as their anxious parents, wives and girlfriends.
Mr Donald Chew, who heads Mindef's Defence Information Television (DiTV), explained that going online with video clips up to four minutes long provides a platform for the ministry to explain the nuts and bolts of the SAF's fighting machines and the people operating them.
Changes in the public's viewing habits and technology gave Mindef the push to move to social websites to project its messages, he said.
Film companies are still bidding for the reality television series project to produce the 18-episode series.
Mindef put up a public tender for the production of the series about two weeks ago, which will follow recruits from their enlistment through to the completion of their BMT on Pulau Tekong.
Mr Chew promised that the series will be 'as real as it gets'.
'We don't want to give viewers a sense that it's propaganda... We don't want to hoodwink people. Whatever they see will not be staged.'
The series will capture, for instance, recruits with their buzz-cuts undergoing the three-day field camp, clearing military obstacles and firing their SAR21 assault rifles for the first time.
Meanwhile, the 140 clips so far uploaded on Mindef's 'CyberpioneerTV' channel have garnered 415,000 views since December 2008.
The clips capture, for example, footage of soldiers in combat exercises in the United States and Australia, guarding Singapore's borders and the SAF elite skydiving Red Lions in action.
Mindef's move to boost its cyber presence comes at a time when more Government departments, Cabinet ministers and Members of Parliament are taking to popular social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter to reach out to young people who are spending more time on the Internet.
At least 41 of the 81 PAP MPs are on Facebook. They include Deputy Prime Ministers Wong Kan Seng and Teo Chee Hean, and Ministers George Yeo, Yaacob Ibrahim, Vivian Balakrishnan and Lim Hwee Hua.
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