i was told (by cmpb ARC) that if you're a man (pte, lcp, cpl) during your NSF days, you CANNOT sign on as an officer (regardless of combat or service) in the army. - regardless of whether you have a harvard, NTU, or NUS or whatever degree/diploma. lol.
true? some policy?
Should be can lah. But no person with proper mind would do that.
Why would they go and be a "man" in the first place for 2 years and then decide later to sign up as an officer?
Originally posted by Alpha jr:i was told (by cmpb ARC) that if you're a man (pte, lcp, cpl) during your NSF days, you CANNOT sign on as an officer (regardless of combat or service) in the army. - regardless of whether you have a harvard, NTU, or NUS or whatever degree/diploma. lol.
true? some policy?
That is generally true.This is because even before you enlist,they would have screened you for security background,aptitude and general physical health.Even if you are PES A,there might be other areas of assessment in which you failed to qualify for officership.
In addition,they use your BMT results as a gauge of how well you are suited to military life and your potential.
I have seen some exceptions to the rule but they are either medical doctors or Air Engineering Officers(AEO).
I think how men can become medical officers should be common knowledge among us.
As for Air Engineering Officer,I think the Airforce had a shortfall of such personnel which is why they were willing to convert sign on combat fit men into officers but I'm not too sure about the current situation.Do note however that those men graduated with engineering degrees b4 signing on,not just any degree.
SPF and SCDF don't follow such a ruling though with regards to signing on for "officer" positions.
lol cos' that man only had 4 o levels when he enlisted - mono intake.
so now he's coming back... well for him its more about passion and patriotism.. wanted to sign on since he was a kid and nearly sign on twice during his NS days..
i don't understand why is the SAF making ads and propaganda for the army to be a career YET don't allow people who weren't officers to sign on as officers. can someone advise on this?
Originally posted by baikachuchu:
That is generally true.This is because even before you enlist,they would have screened you for security background,aptitude and general physical health.Even if you are PES A,there might be other areas of assessment in which you failed to qualify for officership.In addition,they use your BMT results as a gauge of how well you are suited to military life and your potential.
I have seen some exceptions to the rule but they are either medical doctors or Air Engineering Officers(AEO).
I think how men can become medical officers should be common knowledge among us.
As for Air Engineering Officer,I think the Airforce had a shortfall of such personnel which is why they were willing to convert sign on combat fit men into officers but I'm not too sure about the current situation.Do note however that those men graduated with engineering degrees b4 signing on,not just any degree.
SPF and SCDF don't follow such a ruling though with regards to signing on for "officer" positions.
i was an armoured scout trooper back in my NSF days... had outstanding conduct and performance and testimonial for it...
the only thing that held me back then was my education - that 4 o levels can't even make it to sispec. the cmpb screening thing was funny - i actually fell asleep and spammed the 'ok' key or smth and i finished the test when i woke up. but ended up in armour - the other intakes at that time was commandos, NDU, guards, armour.. january 05 batch.
One cannot be good in everything.
All I know is those who are good in studies tend to be weaker physically, and those who are poorer in studies tend to be physically stronger.
Originally posted by Alpha jr:lol cos' that man only had 4 o levels when he enlisted - mono intake.
so now he's coming back... well for him its more about passion and patriotism.. wanted to sign on since he was a kid and nearly sign on twice during his NS days..
i don't understand why is the SAF making ads and propaganda for the army to be a career YET don't allow people who weren't officers to sign on as officers. can someone advise on this?
There are other careers in the army besides officers and if they allow everyone to sign on as officers, there would be noone who will be willing to sign on as a WOSPEC and that will lead to a large imbalence in the structure of the company.
Originally posted by Alpha jr:lol cos' that man only had 4 o levels when he enlisted - mono intake.
so now he's coming back... well for him its more about passion and patriotism.. wanted to sign on since he was a kid and nearly sign on twice during his NS days..
i don't understand why is the SAF making ads and propaganda for the army to be a career YET don't allow people who weren't officers to sign on as officers. can someone advise on this?
I think the issue is not that they don't allow, rather it is that they judge the person unsuitable based on the records during ns.
I think it's a way for them to shortlist, otherwise they would have to test rigorously all those who sign up and want to be officers. Which I suspect would be most of the sign ups.
Originally posted by Alpha jr:lol cos' that man only had 4 o levels when he enlisted - mono intake.
so now he's coming back... well for him its more about passion and patriotism.. wanted to sign on since he was a kid and nearly sign on twice during his NS days..
i don't understand why is the SAF making ads and propaganda for the army to be a career YET don't allow people who weren't officers to sign on as officers. can someone advise on this?
you have got to be kidding if you ask this in earnesty. if everyone in SAF is an officer, where is SAF supposed to get specialists and NCOs and men from?
And fyi, nowhere in the ads do I see an indication that they were made for officers only. The ads are based on concepts of leadership, military life and adventure..nowhere do you see only officers cavorting about in the officers' mess for officers only.
Originally posted by baikachuchu:
SPF and SCDF don't follow such a ruling though with regards to signing on for "officer" positions.
Yup, you're right, SPF and SCDF do not follow this rule. Do note that it's common knowledge since SAF and SPF were conceived in the late 1960s that SPF is the dumping ground of SAF. Back in those days until now, people who fail to make it as an officer in the SAF sign on to SPF as an officer. As you rightly say, SPF does not follow this rule, so obviously it's logical and plausible that the lack of this rule has caused this dumping to occur since time immemorial.
SCDF is even worse than SPF.
in general, a number of components in NS life do translate to identical terms and circumstances of career uniformed personnel. For NSFs, certain people are deemed unfit for various reasons to be in SAF even as men, in certain formations, appointments and certain vocations are completely prohibited to them, we all know they are channelled to SPF and SCDF for NS, an indication of the kind of work and business and budget and arms and influence and importance of the three forces. This is already a clear and obvious indication to anyone with half a brain that for regulars, SPF and even worse, SCDF are dumping ground of SAF, unfortunately. Its been ongoing since your father's time in the 70s and common knowledge till this day save for some very blur people still in the mist, ask any of the older folks or go to oldmen forums like sammyboy and they will tell you.
Someone once said that SCDF is for people deemed to be so inapt that they can't be trusted with a rifle, and can only be trusted with a hose. Harsh but true. The person went on to say that by order of goodness the uniformed groups in SG are Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, SAF, SPF and SCDF.
must able go survive ocs also. ur physical fitness not there, hard.
airforce wan sign on, bmi must be less than 25 ah? army navy i not sure got this not
i think this is true,
i was a CPL in NS, now got my engineering from NTU (2nd lower), apply 5x for AEO position in 2007, all kanna rejection letters 5x without any reaseons/interview!!!
but now AEO is under MDES liao, the newspaper got stated that MDES allow those mid-career people to join, dunno still can apply again?
i think MDES can... i saw somewhere about the different MDES rank represent the army ranks..
however, when i was talking to someone on the recruitment line (not the officer) he said engineering have exception. you might want to try again since 2007 and 2009 might have some changes.
I wanna sign for ADSS, senior tech, but not from engineering field, got exception???
sad, my bmi's 26.6
One of my army fren cpl during nsf sign on later as pilot , should be a capt or major if still in the force
Is it true that those sign on more than xx years will be gonna kick out and bring in young ones?
Is MDES a permenent scheme or contract/bond scheme?
Should be same as officer or warrent officer one, for the scheme, maybe no change, except the rank looks more like SPF one.
this is my opinion,
if anyone wants to sign-on, their mindset should be, go-in as 3rd sgt and come-out as second-warrent, or at least staff sgt.
Don't sign for 5-6 years and regret this, regert that. theat this as a career. if that's the case, then don't sign.