The new Siingapore Army

[Confuseous]

Equally weird is a study by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) that claim recruits who go through their Building Resilience in Individuals for Growth and Emotional Well-being programme (BRIDGE - even the acronym does not tally up) out-jumped, out-ran, out-shot and out-performed those who did not. Add out-hype to those superlatives. Mindef spokesman Desmond Tan boasts that the programme focuses on imparting the knowledge and skills recruits need to control their thoughts and actions to overcome the adversities they face in physical or outfield training.

Stretched over the 10-week Basic Military Training (BMT), BRIDGE is supposed to teach recruits to:
Stop negative thought processes (and replace these with positive self-talk like HDB prices will come down);
Reflect and share thoughts with peers and commanders (keep the distance though, look what happened between teachers and students in schools);
Set individual targets for physical training (why 10 push-ups when one will do?)

- http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-army.html

 

[greedy and cunning]

not weird at all.
they are producing Universe Soldiers that perform betterest and bestest that this current batch.

 

[red amoeba]

finally admission that the new generation of NSFs are softies.

how about a prog that reduce the sudden cardiac arrests happening to NSFs / NSmen?