- Joined
- Aug 20, 2022
- Messages
- 30,158
- Points
- 113
Got totally scammed during my NS days.
RantIve posted this here before and some people seem to not quite believe my experiences or think that im crazy, but please hear me out.
So basically this is what happened.
I was in bmt, i had sleep problems and other problems, decided to OOC. But the OOC took so long that i just stayed in the unit to do stuff for them.
So i finally went OOC and went to do ASA stuff. During my time there i recovered as the condition was only short term. Some people said that if i wanted to i could up pes and they could help me do it. However at the same time i was transferring camp because i wanted a shorter travel time from home. So now even though i could up pes in theory, i cant do it at the previous camp because i have to see the MO at my designated camp.
So my new camp was commando and i settled there for a while. I told my superiors i wanted to up pes. My superior asked why i wanted to up pes, i said i wsnted to try going to SCS instead of wasting the next 1 plus year doing basically nothing in camp. He told me that to go to SCS, i definitely need to get a commando gold in ippt and marksman (totally untrue). I thought it was strange that he lied but didnt think much of it. I suspected he might have wanted me to stay in the unit because manpowrr was running low in his branch as half the people were going to ORD and manpower branch was tired of giving them 1 person every month. So they might have been trying to dissuade me from up pessing by lying. Here's a list of lies or suspicious stuff they told me:
- SCS requires a gold ippt and marksman as a hard requirement (lol no, there are many ippt silvers in SCS and non marksmen too)
- they said that as long as i went through the first week of bmt i was considered not a recruit anymore despite not completing high keys and therefore even if i up pes i could not do bmt. (totally untrue)
- encouraged me to excuse uniform because of a rash i had. When another person had a rash they told him the opposite.
Next i went to see the camp psychologist. Everytime i would share an issue with her she seemed very disinterested and only cared about how i was doing my work in camp etc. It seemed as though she was there more for people to function well in the camp rather than as a counsellor, even though on paper she was there to help me. I would talk to her about some problems i have and she would just secretly laugh, or she would just not really care. She only started to become enthusiastic when i mentioned things related to my work in camp. At that point i didnt think much of it.
Then, i began noticing that everytime i told the psychologist i wanted to take an MC for the next day, somehow my superiors out of nowhere would ask me "hey, by any chance are you going to mc tomorrow?? We got inportant stuff leh". So that would suggest the psych and my superiors were communicating with each other. My superiors also seemed to know about the confidential issues i talked about ONLY with the psych, but they would never reveal to me how they knew specific things about me. I thought it was supposed to be confidential i guess im wrong.
And just like how my superiors try to persuade me not to up pes, my psych also kept telling me the same thing. Presumably she was just doing it for my own good because as a psychologist thats her job, but i had a feeling she might have been working with my superiors in the same branch to keep me from up pessing because my interactions with her always revolved around that topic, and she didnt seen to care about anything else i shared and was dismissive. She was also sort of rude to me.
Before i had told her (the psychologist) that i wanted to go back to tekong she thought i was a commando OOC. So when i told her i wanted to up pes she was very enthusiastic and said that she would help me write a letter to the medical authorities or whatever saying that i was fit to up pes. After realising that if i up pes i would actually be going to tekong instead of commando bmt, she suddenly came up with all sorts of excuses why she couldnt write the letter for me. That was also around the time my superiors would start lying to me and all that. It suggests that she had a vested interest in keeping me in commandos camp. Hear me out here in the next paragraph...
It cant have been that she thought i was not fit to up pes, because when she thought i was an OOC from commando, she was enthusiastic about sending me back to commando bmt and writing a letter for me to up pes, but when she realised i was from tekong, she suddenly didnt want to write the letter for me. So she thought i was fit enough for commando but not for tekong???? Makes zero sense, unless she was trying to keep me in commandos camp, probably because her superior, which happens to be the manpower branch officer (responsible for keeping numbers of free labour NSFs in the camp high), was telling her to keep me in camp for quotas or whatever.
Fast forward a few months, i tried to call out my superiors for lying. They all denied it and scolded me for insubordination. They locked me in a room and then interrogated me and tried to get me to confess to things i didnt do, while having an ipad recorder beneath a few papers that they thought i couldnt see. They kept asking me the same question over and over again and when i answered the question in a way they didnt like (not confessing to the accusations), they would ask again and shout at me. I finally broke down and confessed to things i didnt do because they were screaming at me for 2 straight hours. They recorded my confession and decided to court martial me. Everytime i answered that i didnt do whatever they accused me of thry would ask me to repeatedly sedih ya and senag diri for like 50 plus times and then ask me to confess. I couldnt deny and i couldnt not answer because it would just give them more reason to call me out for insubordination.
Fast forward to before the court martial. My appointment with the psychologist was about 2 weeks later but just a day or two after my superiors wanted to court martial me, suddenly she pushed forward the appointment as if by coincidence she decided to talk to me before my court martial. (another clue suggesting she was working with my superiors). During the meeting with her she asked if i was well etc...she wanted me to talk about the court martial without letting me know that she knows. So she was repeatedly asking me if i had anything wrong or if anything bad happened with me and my superiors, nudging the conversation towards the court martial.
So i told her about the incident. She acted shocked lol. I told her that i was probably going to call the police as i had a recording of my superiors lying to me and other pieces of evidence, and that my parents would probably hire me a lawyer and my mom knows a minister (i was lying lol). Literally the hour after that, my superiors decided to cancel the court martial saying they forgive me. Again, its another clue that the psych was communicating with my superiors.
Throughout this whole incident the psychologist was always telling me not to up pes and then writing letters to medical authorities saying that i was unwell even though she previously said that i was well when she thought i was a commando OOC instead of a tekong OOC. She was also very very fake and didnt seem to listen to me. Tried to persuade me not to go back to bmt probably under the orders of my superiors (because she works with the branch). My lying superiors kept denying it too but the evidence is overwhelming.
In the end i had trouble with up pessing for a few months because the psych kept lying to the medical side that i had all these issues that i didnt actually have. She said i tried to cut myself but the cut on my hand was from an accident with a pen knife. And she only knew about the cut when my superiors saw me accidentally cutting myself. She wasnt there. Very suspicious. The MO didnt believe that i had accidentally cut myself because the psych told the MO i was crazy or whatever in her notes. She kept writing that my condition was bad, but she was only doing that to keep me from up pessing not because i was actually ill. I went to 4 different private psychiatrists and they all said i was fine and wrote a memo for me to up pes, but this lying little weasel psychologist said i was not fine because she didnt want me to up pes and get out of the camp. Her bonus depended on whether her superior (manpower branch) can reach quotas so she was holding me back in camp to reach quotas for a promotion or whatever i think.
There are many more incidents that happened to me that suggests i was right about my superiors but im not going to keep typing so much.
In the end i gave up. I did still manage to up pes but that was after the whole incident. It left me tired, angry and distrustful. I just wanted to share my experiences because the entire year they all thought i was crazy for suspecting my superiors. I kept trying to talk to people, even the police said that the only way they can help me was if i had a lawyer and i had no money for that. I posted this on reddit a while back and you guys didnt believe me and thought i was crazy, even some people from my camp stalked my reddit account and kept harrassing me and telling me i was a schizophrenic paranoid lowlife and kept scolding me or whatever. I think at that time i typed and talked as though i was schizophrenic because when youre nervous you tend to talk or type like that. Its also very difficult to organise an essay detailing all my experiences especially when the situation is so complex so when you write to the point you look kinda crazy.
For the whole ordeal nobody believed me and my superiors had the gall to say i was in the wrong for calling them out on lying and insubordination, while completely ignoring the fact that they were actually lying and cheating me for quotas.
Im sick and tired of this. Theres nothing i can do about this. Im already ORD but i still have alot of resentment towards those people. Dont know what to do. Police cant do anything without evidence. Reddit thinks im crazy. Im so done. I could have had a fulfilling NS experience but this just ruined it. Cant take it anymore.