Hi all. Am new here. Just wanted to check with you all here regarding the above. My son had expressed an interest in the above scheme and went for the interviews and medical. Unfortunately, his ECG came back abnormal and he is supposed to go for another one scheduled this month.
What I didn't like was the letter he came back with - with the heading FURTHER REPORTING ORDER and under Section 9 of Enlistment Act etc etc. And then there was this section no 4 of the letter - Please note that those who fail to comply may be charged under Enlistment Act Section 33.
Technically, he hasn't signed up anything nor has he enlisted yet. So if he doesn't turn up for the 2nd ECG, is he in any wrong at all?
I tried calling the Medical Classification Centre at CMPB and ARC , but no one picks up the phone at all. Makes me wonder if they all have gone for some bonding/gathering etc etc that SAF now is so fond of.
Food for Thought...
Why do the majority of NSmen simply just want to ORD to return to the civilian citizen-soldier way of life?
To most NSmen, the abbreviation for SAF is Serve And F--- Off far far away.
Please advise your son to enlist for NS first to get to know and experience the NS system, the SAF bureaucratic way of administration first...etc.
Don't let your son sign on the contractual bond before he even experience the organisation first-hand. If not, he will just regret to reluctantly sell a few years of his soul to the bureaucracy instead of practising tolerance of the NS system for just 2 years only.
Enlist for NS first, experience a few months of NS until he get posted to a permanent NS unit after the BMT to get to know the real and actual military soldier life. BMT is simply a fun, adventure camping phase. Actual NS military unit life is much more military regimental and disciplined.
When he truly, madly and deeply like the military in the NS unit, then it is still not late to sign on to be a professional career soldier. Otherwise, it is a blessing to just tolerate the full-time NS (NSF) for 2 short years, waiting to countdown to ORD to be a civilian/ a NSman/ a reservist.