SAF Confessions: Citizen soldiers from the Singapore Armed Forces speak up

[Confuseous]

For now, the SAF Confessions creator(s) have hit a gusher. The Admin team said it was swamped with as many as three submissions per minute at some points and are barely able to unwrap all their presents.

Alas, it is a matter of time before trolls - perhaps quasi officially sanctioned? - invade SAF Confessions by posting yarns so far-fetched they poison the credibility of the site or overtax the Admin team's ability to sift fact from fiction.

While it lasts, SAF Confessions gives SAF watchers an invaluable look inside the hearts and minds of Singapore's citizens army. What they glean from SAF Confessions will not tell them anything that Singaporeans familiar with the 45 year NS legacy don't already know.

However, in their excitement to tell a taller tale or in their desire to puff up their ego by seeing their anonymous contribution attract more "Likes", Singapore's citizen soldiers may send a wrong signal to foreign observers.

The tenor of NS stories sent to SAF Confessions may inadvertently lure foreign elements into concluding that the SAF is an army of city boys or out-of-shape NSmen who can't wait to Serve and Forget.

True or not, you decide.

- http://kementah.blogspot.sg/2013/02/saf-confessions-citizen-soldiers-from.html

 

[sickpuppy]

Don't know about your people but during my time in the late 70s and earily 80s was the peak of the cold war and SG was still SG and not the present crap and we really put our hearts to serve the army but come the late 80s most of us in my unit saw how the goverment was starting to screw with us and how fuck up the regulars were we just gave up and king all the way till our cycle up and we FO.