Mother of a NS man

[halsey02]

My time, just turn up by myself, jump into 3 tonner next to chaps who brought along rifle cleaning rods. First weekend to go home, sleep for 24 hrs.

Really!, wow! then you should rejoin & have another experience all over again. ( maybe go back in time)

 

[Leongsam]

18 year olds need their PARENTS to see them off??? What a freakin' bunch of wussies.

 

[halsey02]

18 year olds need their PARENTS to see them off??? What a freakin' bunch of wussies.

You hit the nail on the head, Ouch! These are or future military leaders, some may in years to come, become Air Chief, Generals or even RearAdm. That is the future, 18 year olds wussies, with their parents in tow & maids too, maybe!?

 

[Fook Seng]

Goodies bag, attending a party?, door gifts too?. During my time, you are loaded on to 3-tonner, like herding cattles ( only thing they don't use an electric prod). The bunk beds have no mattress & you are lucky, have good springs.

Nobody mentioned about burning and polishing boots which is non-existent nowadays? How about the debacle of the first camouflage uniform which they had to take off eventually after forcing everyone to wear it without an inner garment?

 

[halsey02]

Nobody mentioned about burning and polishing boots which is non-existent nowadays? How about the debacle of the first camouflage uniform which they had to take off eventually after forcing everyone to wear it without an inner garment?

We can write a book, which will be thicker than the "Hard Tooths", somebody mentioned the rifle cleaning kit, we buy from Beach Rd., the foot powder in the green bottle which was used not only for the foot, but dry bathing on field excercise, which included powdering the hair. Boots, the parade one & the combat one, starch sprays for the starch uniform for parades...hmmm our stalag days. hmmm!!:p

 

[geylangchickenloyangduck]

nah beh...reading the post makes NS sounds like chalet. CCB, nowadays NSFs are worst than the Mr Softies of 7-eleven.

 

[Froggy]

Really a bitter pill to swallow
The story about the female spirit at the Jacob's Ladder still circulating ?

Are you referring to the old Camp 1 in Tekong? My bunk is very near to it, Foxtrot.

 

[Charlie99]

My time, just turn up by myself, jump into 3 tonner next to chaps who brought along rifle cleaning rods. First weekend to go home, sleep for 24 hrs.

During my time, I went to CMPB at Dempsey Road, near Botanical Gardens, boarded the 3 tonner, and was sent to SAFTI.

During the first month of confinement, my younger brother, visited me during the weekend, taking my uniform home to be washed and ironed.

When it was his turn, I was a LTA, almost ready for ROD (nowadays they refer to it as ORD), and visited him, in my civilian clothes, and did not mention to any individual that I was a LTA.

The camp food then was not very delicious.

 

[KuanTi01]

During my time, I went to CMPB at Dempsey Road, near Botanical Gardens, boarded the 3 tonner, and was sent to SAFTI.

During the first month of confinement, my younger brother, visited me during the weekend, taking my uniform home to be washed and ironed.

When it was his turn, I was a LTA, almost ready for ROD (nowadays they refer to it as ORD), and visited him, in my civilian clothes, and did not mention to any individual that I was a LTA.

The camp food then was not very delicious.

What an understatement! The camp food was simply horrible; designed to stave off starvation; in my respectful opinion!

 

[Raiders]

What an understatement! The camp food was simply horrible; designed to stave off starvation; in my respectful opinion!

You must be an old man. The food during my time was wonderful. We even had cute looking milfs to serve us

 

[Charlie99]

You must be an old man. The food during my time was wonderful. We even had cute looking milfs to serve us

Young or old, it is relative. I was not the first batch of NS man. During my time, the 20th batch of OCS, officers, were commissioned. 1 SMC already started.

 

[laksaboy]

Goodies bag, attending a party?, door gifts too?. During my time, you are loaded on to 3-tonner, like herding cattles ( only thing they don't use an electric prod). The bunk beds have no mattress & you are lucky, have good springs. First month, you do not book out & one feel like you were been sent to a concentration camp in Siberia. There wasn't mobile phones back them, 1,000 recruits share 2 public phones & if you lucky, it is working. The food given was not fit for human consumption( don't think it will even get ISO or even HACCP), morning breakfast , the bread comes from Changi Prison ( made by prisoners), can bounce if you drop on the floor, the butter or magarine is in a big goo, some days resembling the rock structure in Close Encounters of the Third Kind or you get kway teow soup, with the kway teow swimming in some water, don't ask about the fried beehoon/noodle or even rice. As for lunch or dinner, the rice is of the lowest quality in the market, the kind you feed your fowls with; the marine workers today, pooni rice are far more better; there are sand in them rice & the vegetables too & come with caterpillars. Forgot to mention, the morning coffee or tea, taste like, it had been strain through a sock & yes, it did. Never mind about the rest, I guess, many will all know, what it was...never mind about the training also.

They make it today that their sons are going in for some holiday retreat...no wonder, NS is Killing SINgapore ( where is Madmansg?):p

When I enlisted into BMT, it was just around the time when people started transitioning from pagers to handphones.

Most people had this phone:

It was the iPhone equivalent of those days: if you own one, everyone around you gets impressed.

 

[Fook Seng]

Young or old, it is relative. I was not the first batch of NS man. During my time, the 20th batch of OCS, officers, were commissioned. 1 SMC already started.

Those early batches, everyone got a sword to take home.

 

[halsey02]

During my time, I went to CMPB at Dempsey Road, near Botanical Gardens, boarded the 3 tonner, and was sent to SAFTI.

During the first month of confinement, my younger brother, visited me during the weekend, taking my uniform home to be washed and ironed.

When it was his turn, I was a LTA, almost ready for ROD (nowadays they refer to it as ORD), and visited him, in my civilian clothes, and did not mention to any individual that I was a LTA.

The camp food then was not very delicious.

'delicious' is a misnomer my dog back home had better cooked food than I did, when I was in camp, I wondered back them, if we swine been fed swill.

 

[halsey02]

It was the iPhone equivalent of those days: if you own one, everyone around you gets impressed.

My old Nokia phone, way back then! no comparison to the iphone, but it was solidly built, thrown at you, you get a nasty bruise.

 

[zhihau]

My old Nokia phone, way back then! no comparison to the iphone, but it was solidly built, thrown at you, you get a nasty bruise.

me stand by Ericcson 688, this phone went under the jeep in Area D, swam in Murai Reservoir, dropped umpteen times, still serviceable after a change to the antenna. network coverage surpasses those man packed radio set any given time.

 

[Ramseth]

The old Motorola 8800 was the best. One whack on target can crack skull and call for ambulance. You whack it with a brick also it wouldn't break.

 

[BlueWave]

Young or old, it is relative. I was not the first batch of NS man. During my time, the 20th batch of OCS, officers, were commissioned. 1 SMC already started.

bro,

you ocs charlie company 1999 is it? as your nick suggest.

 

[halsey02]

me stand by Ericcson 688, this phone went under the jeep in Area D, swam in Murai Reservoir, dropped umpteen times, still serviceable after a change to the antenna. network coverage surpasses those man packed radio set any given time.

http://www.gsmarena.com/ericsson_gh_688-106.php This one, gee!, I owned that also, another solid phone, went over to Ericcson for many years until the t28 or something, couldn't stand the battery life & went back to Nokia. Those are really solid phone.

 

[Charlie99]

Those early batches, everyone got a sword to take home.

Yes, and custom tailored number 1 uniform or ceremonial uniform.
I had 2 swords, one from the SAF, and one from UK.