Last week in the forum (on Tuesday I believe), some Mr. Tan something something(a deluded fellow) wrote to the press complaining about how short 2 years is for those who fail their NAFA. Well let me enlighten that deluded man here. (based on st on-line forum the guy’s full name is Mr Tan Hau Teck, read his letter here).
Disclaimer: this is not an official press release by the SAF, do not quote the author. If this happens to break any unknown Penal Code or something please inform the author, who will take it down even if it violates the right of the author to freedom of speech.
The gist of the letter was we, i.e. youths of today, do not prepare ourselves for NS. Perhaps Mr. Tan should clarify what he meant by that. Should JCs and Polys have annual route marches? Pre-BCCT? Pre-Range? Or even maybe SOC? Then this Mr. Tan continues to rant about how we are having too many safety regulation(approx. 4 volumes thick). Thus we should not be adding anymore for the poor youths (the commanders actually) to read. Well a few little pointers for this Mr. Tan to note.
*Side note: A simple biograph of Mr. ex-regular Tan Hau Teck(formerly CPT I think). Presumably was an ex-OCS instructor at tango coy. He’s from fass,nus (perhaps a good reason not to go nus? such deluded alumuni). An avid forum writer on varied issue (has commented before on pay raise for civil service which I believe only the super scale pay is affected the most and little for those who slogged the most under time scale).
One 4 volumes of TSR. The TSR of SAF is said to be written in red ink, whereby each death leads to a realisation of a lack in certain safety aspects. So is it wrong to have those tsr? So we not train safely during peacetime. Many have asked me is this what you expect for war?(esp some of the brainwashed commanders) Well I would love to answer(but I can’t since I’m the second/third lowest life-form in SAF, the last being a rec and the second being an oct or something I think) is no but is this war time? We are not at war now, so is there a need to behave as if we are at war now? Should we therefore led our lives every day as if there’s war. Training for peacetime should be realistic but shouldn’t they still be safe? Perhaps we would kill more people in training than in actual warfare if we were to stick to the old school.
Another thing many like to say is now things are much better. I would love to ask: Singapore as a society has progressed far, so has her armed forces but is the rate of progress similar or are they disjointed? We are now at the 3G armed forces but sometimes I wonder whether the commanders are 2G or 3G.(but that’s for another time). I would ask that Mr. Tan who ask for comparision to old army training to ask himself: DO you walk to work or take a car/train? DO you flick a switch and turn on lights or light candles? DO you carry your waste to dispose off or flush the WC? Are we a civilised society or should we just remain as simple cavemans?
He also lay the claims that 4 volumes of training safet regulations is too much and so we should not add to them. So should we halt all research? Based on what he said we should just abandon all hopes of progress. Doctors already have a lot to study we should not give them anymore to learn. Scientist have too much to now, they should not conduct anymore research. Artists have too many paintings to study, no one should paint anymore. Pharmacist have too many drugs to prescribe, so GSK ad other companies hould just closed their R&D depts. So is it really a chore to read 4 volumes of TSRs? Students seemed to have had already more than just 4 volumes of stuff to read through in their lives for their studies, university texts surely are more than 4 volumes thick.
Then let me ask Mr. Tan if he himselves can actually remember all the important parts in the TSRs. I don’t think he can. And in addition to his deluded mentality, he seems to carry a lot of biasness. Is the OCT not a regular? Would he had not be physically fit for his training?
A quick peep in the forum comments demostrates that there seem to be a lot of fellow deluded singaporeans. This is really sad. It is even sadder that our media actually allow such a blatantly deluded letter to appear in our prestigious newspaper, being the paid english newspaper in singapore. Perhaps Today would be more reliable.
My last question to all those who actually blames the recruits for their own deaths by being unfit is this: Is war making neccesary? Should Singapore even have war making machineries?
The death of NSFs is a loss of talents in Singapore limited pool of talents. We should not take life so lightly as Mr. Tan seem to think we all do. Life should be lived to the fullest and not spent on redundant stuff like manning an armed forces for war which should nevr have. War has achieved much but at what cost. No matter how much the Iraq and Afghan war has helped the people there is the price worth it? Are there not better ways about it? Perhaps war is the biggest failing of humanity.
-wonght
One day war will unmake us all.
