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The headdress for recruits are the jockey caps. Berets are presented to all soldiers who have completed their trade courses in whichever arms they are posted to. Infantrymen light green berets, Guardsman (elite infantry) Kaki Berets, Armour black berets, support arms like signals, maintenance, artillery, medics dark blue berets, commandos (paratroopers) red berets. Every soldier will have their vocation badges sewed on the right collar.
That is true but i somehow ended up with a black beret when im actually a medic XD like after completing my medic course they handed us black beret instead.
Looking forward to ur reactions to subsequent videos! There is also a series of the Singapore SOF (special operations force) selections (the first video has been released!, with subsequent videos released over the next few weeks). Do check them as this is the first time ordinary Singaporeans can catch a rare glimpse of the SOF selections trial!
NS is a 2-year complusory service (mostly with the armed forces, but some serve as police officers or firemen). This program shows the BMT (Basic military training), which is a 3 month phase for all recruits. It is held at BMTC, a series of camps on the island of Tekong. Their instructors holding ranks of 3rd Sergeant (equiv of Sergeant in the US), are about a year their senior and been through BMT -> infantry specialist (3 - 6 months) -> instructors -> (platoon sergeant or company sergeant major course, (additional 2-3 months if they are so appointed)). Their PCs (most PCs in BMT are commissioned officers, except some in BMT are WO) are similar, except they went to Officer Cadet School for 9 months and get their commissions. Whether one becomes sergeant or officer if they so volunteer to be a leader is almost entirely random - if they meet pre-requisites for leadership skills/education levels. So nearly everyone's a conscript, including instructors. They are supervised by career soldiers (we call regulars), who are warrant officer/CPT ranks, being their OC / RSM / some PCs.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet There are rare exceptions to the conscript instructor thing. When I was a platoon commander a couple of years back, at one point a bunch of non-commissioned regulars got posted to my company to take up instructor positions. It was a 'holding' position for them while waiting for some course or whatever to start. Can't remember the exact reason why. A bunch of 3rd and 2nd Sergeants. Even had one 30 year old 3rd Sergeant who was former NDU in my command team. Great guy, funny as hell.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet 1. Conscription into national service is not just 2 years of service. 2. Upon completion of 2 years of full time national service, they will be deployed to a reserve unit. They will then serve the reserve unit as a fighting force for the next 10 years or 10 cycles. 3. Reason they are fully trained and rised up the rank quickly in their short 2 years is for them to be able to run their own reserve units/battalion/division etc for the next 10 years once they have completed full time service as it's 100% run by reserves. So obviously you need different people with different specialties, skills and ranks to fill up those roles.
during my time, it was a lot more hectic in comparison. the training here is really relaxed and calm in comparison to what i went through more than half a decade ago. due to deaths and accidents, the army changed a lot of its standards and lowered it so as to appease the public. heightened safety has been a priority since. another factor to why the sgts and officers being so calm is because they are under the camera, they dont want to show or cant show anything bad to the public.
20:46 - female recruits (all career soldiers) are enlisted as a whole company and they will have a female OC and PCs/specialists posted in from units for them. Their entire company (the building) will be out of bounds to male recruits and staff. Of course such safety won't continue into the units, but that's the best they can do for BMT and also into command schools. By the time they get into units, they will be sergeants/officers a year later and should be able to take care of themselves.
Interesting! Everything is 100%integrated in the US military basic training, with the exception of Marines. They are slowly integrating female recruits into the male companies.
10:28 - Encik means 'Sir' in malay. Its an official and traditional way to address warrant officers in the SAF. Certain titles and all drill commands are in Malay, to preserve tradition and recognize them as the original inhabitants of Singapore.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet we used to call them just Sir, as with commissioned officers and ‘encik’ was an endearing title if we respect them. Then a few years ago, they made it official.
In my time, Encik was used to address company Sargent majors, typically a staff Sargeant rank. Warrant officers are addressed as Sir, same as commissioned officers. The regimental Sargeant majors are normally at least warrant officers.
Hi! I'm a cadet of the National Cadet Corps in Singapore and the Junior ROTC in the US is somewhat similar to NCC as it is also sponsored by the army. In Singapore, it serves as a co-curricular activity for students where they can choose to be in it. Trainings are conducted in the respective schools by the most senior students who will have to go for external training to rank up at the Headquarters to train the junior cadets. I'm currently a senior cadet and is graduating from secondary school (High School) at the end of the year.
@@sourdurian2839 You don't have to do army anymore because you ROD. I don't have to do army anymore because I gave up my citizenship after I ORD. We are not the same.
14:26 - They aren't allowed to go home for the first 2 weeks, hence 12 days to the next weekend, before they 'book out'. We call booking out/in for leaving or entering the camp because it involves signing on a book the time you enter/leave. :) BMT is nearly 3 months, before they 'pass out'/graduate, have a one week break before postings to their units or schools.
US military doesn’t get to go home until after they graduate from their advanced school. Then they can choose to go home on leave for a few days or few weeks, before reporting to their first unit.
We sign a book? My time we scan our 11B and that only happened in Tekong. After POP I just walked out the gate during book out time without signing anything since I was stay out
16:20 - phones only allowed at rest time, at the bunks for recruits... not allowed to be with them in training. After lights out timing, they will get yelled at or punished if they are caught awake with their phones. The sergeants are on vigilant watch, to detect any depressed soldier, or anyone smoking illegally/taking drugs, or sneaking out to call their girlfriends all night.... etc.
I think the drill sergeants keep their recruits phones locked up during the week. The recruits only get phones for a few minutes to make a phone call home maybe on Sundays. I’m not sure how it is now at the different US basic training sites. That’s just what I heard. Thing do change all the time.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet yup… also depends on their vocation and if they volunteered to be commanders. Some will be sent to artillery, armour, admin assistants, drivers’ courses…. Or specialists cadet and officer cadet schools.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet as a driver sergeant, almost everyone hates the berets, and only use them during formal events. The jockey caps are far more comfortable and useful
With regards to the enlistee who mentioned that he is a PR in Singapore, it’s a legal legislation and a mandate that all boys of Singaporean citizen or Permanent Resident living in Singapore are to serve their National Service obligations for 2 years. Prior to that, many of the boys had just finish their college education (in Singapore’s context we address them as finishing their Polytechnic diploma education, JC or junior college education) the boys will have to attempt their pre-enlistment physical fitness test called IPPT or Individual Physical Proficiency Test to determine their level of fitness before they are being ensiled. Back in my NS days, all pre-enlistees will have to undergo medical screening to determine their PES status or Physical Employment Status. They will have to declare if they have existing medical conditions before the Ministry of Defence in Singapore will determine where they will get posted to. Singapore has three main organizations mainly the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) Under the SAF umbrella, there is the Army, Navy and Air Force. I might be wrong on this and I welcome viewers on this channel to correct me so that you have an idea on how Singapore military works, the boys would be enlisted to the Army and thereafter being posted to various units within the SAF umbrella, call it sub-units/divisions if you may. Back to the topic of PES status, these pre-enlistees will have to undergo psychometric tests/assessment to ascertain their level of physio and psychological capabilities, the test in conclusion will determine which organization they will be posted to for them to serve their National Service with, so not all boys will end up in the Army to do their NS, some would be deployed to SPF or the SCDF (SCDF are firemen) to serve their national obligations. There are different level of PES status and are categorize in the alphabets of A to E if I’m not mistaken? A being physically combat fit to E being unfit for military service, those fall under the PES E status would skip the training regime and would get direct posting to being an admin clerk at an army camp for their two years of NS. Fast forward after two years of serving NS, these boys that are trained soldiers would eventually reach a milestone called ORD or Operationally Ready Date which essentially means they have completed their two years of National Service. But that’s not all, after two years of NS, these trained soldiers will still carry on their daily lives as civilians/working adults but they will be recalled for mandatory yearly training called in-camp training (ICT) or simply reservist. It’s usually a two week affair going through the syllabus of the training/soldiering skills that they were taught and learn during NS. Some of us look forward to it because we can catch up with our platoon mates back in the day while some might find it as a waste of time going through the motion 🤷🏻♂️ this is how Singapore’s military cycle works, many boys feel that serving the nation is a waste of time but not until when something is being taken away, they will feel a sense of loss and honestly, Singapore is considered one of the safest cities in the world, though we do have crimes happening on the streets and neighborhood, low crime doesn’t mean no crime and we are really fortunate to have these selfless individuals who are serving the military to protect our country that we call home. Hope this gives you an insight of how Singapore military operates and it’s cool to see you react to Singapore’s military video as well as the Naval Diving Unit’s training in your earlier post. Good stuff! 👍🏻
the buckets are for washing their uniforms and clothing ik the toliet since for the first 2 weeks, they are gonna stay there at tekong for bmt :) there are no washing machine etc thus they will have to wash everything and clean everything themselves!
8:32 Before COVID, family members were able to accompany the recruits to the military camp on enlistment day. The recruits would head off to do some paperwork/get ready for oath taking, while the family members would be taken on a tour of the bunks(dormitories) and training facilities. The family members would then witness the recruits' oath taking, join the recruits for a lunch, and say a farewell before leaving.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet bear in mind that we're almost all conscripts. If they started screaming at us like they do in the US army you'd be having a lot more AWOL and desertions. You guys have college educations being paid for and proper salaries, where in Singapore a recruit gets a measly $580 a month
@@ironboy3245 except if they sign on - they get backpaid upon commission/completion of specialist course, getting a 2LT or 3SG pay for all the previous months from enlistment.
30 years ago I served 2.5 years. Hell started on the 1st day, the instructors will keep calling us to fall-in from our bunk to the parade square and if we can't do it in 2 mins we'll repeat the drill for the whole night, also we fall-in in push up position until everyone is in before we are allow to stand up, if the instructor is not happy we carry on to do push ups until his eyes get tired. Walking down the stairs is a crime, we have to jump the stairs to speedup. Shouting starts even before we reach the camp, I.e. taking the truck to the camp. Phone? What phone? Calling home is a luxury. The instructor will call for you if there's something happened to you, else just forget about home. It's so much different nowadays.
Watched your vids before my enlistment. Imagine my surprise to see myself in Dragon Coy itself with the very same enciks in the series to still be there.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Physically, it isn't that bad since the training is progressive. What is hard is the mental game. Especially with how tired you can get after trainings.
23:29 Its compulsory to do these kind of fire drills etc. Some of those youths are pretty much pampered to the point where they are clueless or dont react to certain emergencies at all. We have to literally teach them the baby steps to how things are done.
I can imagine. That are just young kids, growing up playing a lot of video games, coding, doing TikTok and stuff like that. They are the TikTok generation 😁
BMT or now they called BMTC ( basic military training course) is 3 mths back in my time in 90s. military service is term 2.5 years ( now 2 years). after completion of service, the men are require normally to back in reservist training approx 2 to 3 weeks yearly for the next 10 to 20 years depending on your rank. these men from BMTC will be together during their time in 2 year national service and also for the next minimum 10 years reservist period. this is to ensure the men know their buddies, cohesion to execute at platoon , company and battalion level.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet BMTC is common except for special force. After BMTC some will go go command course( officer) some specialist( sergeant). they will be posted to different unit to learnt different skills such as signals, armour, etc…then they will stay together during the remaining time left in the national service + 10 years or more of reservist
National Service is compulsory for citizens + children of permanent residents. First-generation adult PRs do not serve NS. At around 16-18, their parents can decide if they serve NS and remain PR, or if not, the entire family loses their PR and will have extreme difficulty returning for employment/education.
I was the 2nd generation PR in Singapore , my 2nd brother and I served the national service and we got our citizenships after we completed our service. (My brother served in the mid 70s and I served in 1986 to 1988)The other two of my brothers chose not to do the national service. But 10 years later they were given the citizenship. Our parents n sisters were also given the options to be Singaporeans, Or they could decide to stay as PR.
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Regarding the issue of head dress, the Singapore Armed Forces have a few variations. Usually most soldiers will wear their jockey caps, berets are worn during ceremonies/parades or in office uniform (i.e. No. 3 Uniform). Recruits are not issued with berets as they are in basic training and have not been assigned a military specialty (i.e. vocation). Once a soldier has completed further training and have been assigned a specialty, they will be authorised to wear a beret corresponding to their specialty. Most of the Section Commanders were trained as infrantry troops, thus they are assigned a green beret. Some instructors within BMTC were trained as Guardsmen, which are troops that are trained in rapid deployment, heliborne and amphibious operations in addition to convention infantry tactics, thus they are seen wearing khaki berets. In Singapore, basic military training is common for all combat-fit members of the SAF, thus all soldiers, airmen and sailors will go through the same basic military training but it might be decentralised based on the requirements of various units.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet not really, whereas US Army Rangers are a special operation force, guardsmen are usually fielded alongside our infantry troops but have a wider range of tactics and equipment.
berets are to idenfty company units e.g. green infantry, khaki guards and maron commandos and so on their are total of 6 colours each presenting the unit or company
@@JustAnotherArmyVet medics will wear basic on their post on which company or unit thier in etc.. for me i was a vehicle technician so we wore black berets the same as combat enigneers as is under the Maintenance & Engineering Support company
You only have jockey cap when you are just a recruit. Once you graduated from basic military, you will be promoted to private but still with jockey cap. After advance training then you will be given the beret.
FIrst generation PRs (permanent residents) are not required to serve NS (national service). However the sons (2nd generation PRs) of these residents will be required to.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet haha yeah. We can get conscripted (averages out to 2 years of service) into Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), which are Army, Navy, Air Force | or Home Team, Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) which are firefighters and paramedics, and Singapore Police Force (SPF). I was in SCDF.
In Indian Military Training academics like OTA, NDA ,IMA,AFA, NA would can only talk to your family once/twice a month if permitted by the Academy. No mobile phones allowed in NDA for 3 years basic training and IMA 1 year advance training
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Strictly not allowed. They create men out of boys without tech gadgets. A very raw transformation of Officers. They are trained for 4 years straight.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yes once a year for about 2-3 weeks. Sometimes on Sundays if they perform well in the academy they are given a free day where they can visit the Pune City and enjoy the day.(But that's too rare case )
Buckets are for in case of a real fire happening but we just use it to wash our clothes XD. There are 2 reasons to why there are no cursing, first is cause its in front of the camera and second is cause maybe they are mono-intake meaning the commanders follow them all the way through their 2 years.
The Permanent Resident (Ramesh) has to serve national service because he has spent a large part of his growing up years in Singapore. So if he wishes to retain that status - he will be obligated to serve National Service. However if you become PR at a later stage in your life (say 30s or 40s), you will not have to serve national service. Clarification to parents being around - Only for the first day, the parents get to sent their boys straight to BMTC and then say their good byes there.
From what I know, It is compulsory for Second Generation Permanent Residents to complete National service. that means if parents choose to migrate to Singapore and apply to be permanent residents, the children will have to serve. and only after serving can you obtain Singaporean citizenship. Also, Not all national servicemen will be under the ministry of defence. some will be posted to The Singapore Police Force to serve their national service. and others the Singapore Civil Defence Force (The fire protection and rescue agency in Singapore) as Firefighters or EMTs. Regarding your point about the 12 days, the first 2 weeks of the Basic military training is known as the confinement period. after that, recruits get to "book out" i.e go home for their weekends, and "book in" i.e return to camp for the weekdays. Generally, Book-out days are on Friday Evenings or Saturday Mornings, and Book-ins, Saturday Evenings or Sunday mornings. however, this depends on your performance, if you or someone in your platoon commits an offence or make mistakes, your leave may be shortened or cancelled. But I haven't enlisted so please don't quote me on anything.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet There's loopholes. Sort of. Like SPF are strict with tattoos so if you have them, they won't accept you, my brother got kicked out of SPF during enlistment day cos of that. There's also those with religious background, like muslims who studied in madrasah schools instead of secular schools, they tend to be posted to SCDF since they're discouraged from bearing arms. Military however doesn't care and takes in everyone. Quite a lot of my platoon mates had records and court cases; assault, rioting or juvenile charges etc.
2:41 haha ikr . due to limited soliders , and majority of manpower being conscripted soldiers. no choice , sgt in charge of section are usually also. in their conscripted. no choice to follow suit with other country where drill sergeant is already a few years into service
@@JustAnotherArmyVet im not exactly sure . i know rhey went to bmt , den specialist sch . after wards it depends if they are goona be trainers or go into unit as sergeant. less than 9months im thinking.
@@jianxiongRaven US military it’s generally at least 5-6 years plus. You have to be at least a sergeant. But most Drill sergeants are staff sergeants and Some are sergeant first class. You can volunteer to go to Drill sergeant school or you can be selected (“voluntold”) to go. After you pass the school, the tour is about 2-3 years.
In singapore we're almost all conscripts. the only ones who serve voluntarily are some PRs looking for resident status and females. For females they get their own company for BMT and only integrate into units afterwards, usually with their own bunks buckets are for washing clothes and putting fires out. or putting shit in. whatever is convenient at the time
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yes. If you’re what is called a first generation permanent resident, say you just migrated into Singapore, National Service is not compulsory. If you’re a second generation Permanent Resident (that is, your mum and dad migrated and brought you over as their young kids) it is compulsory to serve NS if you’ve stayed in Singapore for any significant amount of time. Usually, you do get offered citizenship after serving NS. This applies only to men, though not females. Females do not have to serve and if they chose to, they usually join the army intending to be regulars.
For 2nd generation Permanent Residents need to serve National Service in SG. If they choose not to, they will not be able to continue to live in Singapore. BTW, the national service was reduced to 2 years. It was 2.5 years during my time🤨
Before they even went into BMTC, they will undergo medical check up to determine their PES (Physical Employment Standard) status, which are : PES A Fit for all combat vocations PES B1 Fit for most combat vocations PES B2 Fit for some combat vocations PES BP Fit for obese training PES C Fit for combat support vocations PES D Temporarily unfit for assessment and pending further review PES E Fit for administrative duties only PES F Medically unfit for any form of service
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yup,no one was spared under the constitutional law conscript military system. So long you are a male,not physically disabled,pass physical stress grade test (PES). Whether you are tall or short or fat does not matter. Young men are to service national service inthe military unwillingly. Believe it the below or not. It is just a fact. They will use you to sacrifice and mould you from civilian into a soldier just like installing a new copy of Windows O.S over you and you be brainwashed to give up your life for republic. (Its actually more like serving starwars the first order instead of the serving the Republic. Alteratively ,it like serving the Gundam Zeon instead of the federation.) So long you can walk, you have arms and fingers to operate firearms you be selected. What matter the most,is during war time,you will take cover to ambush or charge at your enemy, fire your firearm finish them with your M16/SAR21/Ultimax/HK416/P90/M110/M203/Matador and M240 and sacrifice your life is the outcome they wanted,fear is not an option. That is madness mindset required from a soldier. They have lots of firearm varieties from U.S , Europe to locally Sg made firearms model, they will issue one firearm to you and your cannot choose it. Even since Sg's independence in 1965 the Military was always on standby for war mode till today just like the Israel. The tough training can cause a soldier to lose his life even before going to a war. How tense is it ? It is just like the North Korea and South Korean tensions as they are technically at war but stop shelling each other under an armistice. The U.S military bases,fighter jets and U.S Naval 7th fleet in Singapore is just very much like the U.S Whitehouse and pentagon that supports the South Korea military. ua-cam.com/video/CMNlx8tMoqk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/zXE0k7AfwS4/v-deo.html , fb.watch/cLNrsXWygH/ ua-cam.com/video/iJQRJ_sBX0Q/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/RLQmrYPXegM/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/6b8EP9gLMCU/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/Qgbe0xbswGU/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/hRR6AgaFuoU/v-deo.html
Females and males train together. But the females have a whole platoon to them selves. meaning there are only females in that platoon. Also, the female recruits are only designated to certain companies. Dragon company just isn't one of them
This series is kind of sanitised for consumption by the general public. Much less yelling and probably because it was filmed during the earlier part of the pandemic so everybody was stressed enough as it is. Many of the commanders are conscripts too and I guess the general stance was to avoid causing undue worry for the parents of the recruits who has their sons taken away from them during uncertain times when everybody was fighting agains an invisible army.
Yes,a son being taken away by constitutional law and being forced to becoming a soldier unwilling to serve and sacrifice his life for the country. Just like those ancient tribe movies , the slave or warrior to be sacrifice unwillingly. Conscript military service is the worst kind of punishment recruitment method on earth that forces young man a liability to become a soldier and gave up his life unwillingly the fulfill national service requirement. The parents missed their sons (Baby) and wonder if they will still be in one piece after the tough training and Covid risk. Serving in Singapore military is much like serving in the North Korean military. Same conscript system, a way of forcing young men to commit serving the Military.
@@UtopiaParadiseValley BMT training isn't tough today lmao. Any dads/grandpas that served during the early days of the conscription system would classify BMT today as Boy Scouts camp.
@@UtopiaParadiseValley It's unfortunate that there are individuals (I know of a few myself) that feel like you do. But the vast majority of those in my full-time unit (1991-1993) and reservist unit (1994-2006) including myself; do feel that it helped us mature, learn discipline and leadership skill. Not to mention self-defence (unarmed combat), first-aid, firearms, individual fieldcraft and jungle survival skills. Plus those that are posted to vocations such as MT (Motor Transport) Line drivers or Recce Bikers. Can directly convert their military driver's license into civilian ones! The way I see it is that if you go into it with a negative closed mindset, you will not only not learn or benefit from the experience, but might actually become a hinderance/liability or even sabotage the rest of your section/platoon mates. Going into it with a positive mindset and a willingness to learn new skills and take on responsibilities has helped many Singaporean men (including a not so young 50 year-old man like myself) grow and mature through our late teens / early twenties. I dare say that the leadership, planning (esp. strategic and contingency planning) and scheduling skills have helped in the running of my one company and two businesses. It's very sad and misguided (spiteful?) that you actually likened Singapore's NS with serving the communist North Korean military. If you had bothered to learn a bit about the country's history, you would have realised that one of the key reasons for Singapore to quickly develop and build it's own credible military defence force. Was precisely to counter the threat of communism that was threatening to win over most of Southeast Asia at that time! Perhaps this video by VisualPolitik best sums up the country that Singapore's military is modelled on: ua-cam.com/video/taA-xVYtQWI/v-deo.html Taiwan is also another state that has greatly helped and assisted Singapore in the early years of forming our military and we are eternally indebted to them! But that's for another discussion altogether.
@@eugenetan72 what I trying to day is. The Singapore Army is using a conscript military recruitment system same as the North Korea Army. So serving is Singapore Army is very much like serving in the North Korea army and very tough due to the conscript military system. Yes in the late 60's to early 70's Singapore Creator work closely with the U.S and common allied like UK,Australia and New to fully expel and diminished the Mao's communism expansion from China propagated to Malaysia and then to Sigapore. But all those efforts are pretty much useless and outdated now. Currently in the troubled times ,there is a serious change of state. The china communist is making a come back stronger and more defiant to spread communism for the second time. Influence its financial and Millitary power to Russia, Afghan,Turkey,Middle East,Iran,pakistan Africa,Argentina and Cuba. Having the calibre as the U.S. China speedy building battle cruiser,frigates,amphibious LHD and Air carriers day and night like no nobody business and anything esle. They upgraded all their old ships with new high calibre cannon and hypersonic air,land & sea missile. AUKUS,Europe,Philippines,Korea and Japan cannot contain CCP Naval power any more. The world and we are now under the communist threat from the sea. It is just waiting for the day meet head on with PLA amphibious Apcs,tanks and marines and infantry. They would just storm our shores just like pirates and buccaneers. No doubt high possible we may be the one fighting them in future as the active NSF was not enough. Too bad we don't have any coastal Artillery to due with the CCP Naval forces as we did not re-use all British Artillery forts such as fort siloso which was made to place heavy naval Artillery to handle threat from the seas in WWII. Why is there a possibility of CCP will consider set sail south to liberate Singapore ? 1)They detest Sg to allied and linked up with the U.S and Europe Millitary. Just look at our Millitary inventories from U.S and the Europe countries. 2)A bad history linkage between Sun Yat Sun Taiwan and China that shouldn't have happened during WWII. China will will taking here just like taking back Taiwan. 3)Natural seaport,airport and good Artillery fort. 4)Lots of very hot targets like U.S military bases,fighters jets,Naval U.S.S like the littoral combat ships,Arleigh Burke Frigates,Ticonderoga-class cruiser and U s Navy Aircraft carrier 7th fleet task force. Thanks for SG warm hosting of them as a military allied. We gonna fight the CCP even we don't want to due the CCP's hostile stance. Hopefully by then all U.S Naval vessel fight them together with us. Just look at Ukraine war. China and Russia are very close allies, they are strong military might with heavy firepower. Things can happen any time. That's why all our military units are stepping up trying frequencies. Sg for being a second Taiwan is likely possible. Majority of our population are Chinese Probability of CCP coming at us before Taiwan The amount of battleships that China has is unacceptable for the world and there are more to come. Those CCP.naval ships can handle or take down any Air,land and sea targets. How to sleep peacefully at night where you thinking when a CCP Naval Artillery shell will fall onto you.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Actually, times have changed. Back in the day, the NCO were all trained by the Israeli Army, and you know how tough the Israelis are.
No he volunteered, because he feels that Singapore is his home, expatriates living in Singapore from other countries are not required to serve no matter what age the come, but their children that are born there if they decide to make a life there are going to be required to serve.
@ninrajan, in Singapore, we don't look at races that way. Most of us are 4th or 5th generation in, from 100 - 200 years ago. Race is a cultural background/identity, but Chinese/Malay/Indians are all just Singaporeans to us...
Singapore army, police or fireman instructors are fond of using these phrases when trying to psyche up, demoralize or simply insult recruits: My grandmother can run faster than you My grandmother can jump higher than you My grandmother can shoot better than you etc... etc😆 All those instructors have the same mindset
@@LooNciFeRx oh wow! I didn’t even know that Japan had occupied Singapore! And the US uses phrases like that also. My grandmother can run faster than you! 😂
My son was enlisted just recently and didn’t have to bring the bucket with him during the fire drill. :) Unfortunately, many of them came down with Covid. He came back for his first book out day and fell sick. His siblings caught it too. 😅
Times have changed indeed. Perhaps its for the cameras and covid changed the mood. Did my NS in 2004. No shortage of vulgarities from the drill sergeants
@@JustAnotherArmyVet haha one of the silly punishments drill sergeants used to do. See the tree over there, run to the tree and kiss the tree and come back. Lol
@@JustAnotherArmyVet to add on: it is not compulsory for females to serve NS. So for those that do, they are either signing on as career soldiers, or (I'm not 100% sure) part of the Volunteer Corps.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet I'm curious too. I have a feeling that there are more females in our AIr Force and Navy compared to the Army, but I could be wrong too.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet permanent resident like that guy in the vid...i remember vaguely about how declaring that u will serve NS will allow u to be automatically become PR or boost ur chances tremendously
This is so calm, I remember alot of confusion, alot of kissing the floor (push ups punishments), cursing and shouting, and fantasing about fking the sergeants's mothers
Nice vids. 1) Do take note that the videos are from the official mouthpiece of the Singapore Armed Forces. The footage and training has been made more palatable for the audience to give them a peace of mind. People watching could be parents/relatives. In normal companies, you spend quite a lot of time facing the ground, if you get what I mean. My company had this infamous "training shed" slot which just consisted of a constant barrage of insults and punishment for hours on end. 2) The company in this video is led by a Warrant (Encik). Encik companies are known to be relatively less hard on the recruits. This is not to say that recruits from there do not get the full training. In fact they may pick up some tidbits based on years of experience by these Enciks. I've been to OCS and some of my fellow cadets were from Encik companies. Their standards and ability to endure hardship were no different to mine. An example would be the fire drill. In this video they seemed to do it once. Mine lasted 4 hours with an impossible timing. 3) All in all, it really depends on which company you are streamed to and how "enthusiastic" the trainers are.
Thank you so much for explaining l that. Do the Enciks and trainers have to go to any kind of drill sergeant /trainer school? In the US Army, NCOs can get “voluntold” or they can volunteer for Drill sergeant school, which is about 10 weeks longs. They then do a 2-3 year tour as a drill sergeants.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet After BMT, the recruits are sent to either Specialist Cadet School (SCS), Officer Cadet School (OCS), or a unit to further their training. The training period depends on where you are placed. Specifically for your question, the NCOs may get posted back to BMT to become trainers after they graduate from SCS. There will be a short trainer course for them to learn the ins and outs of training recruits. I don't think it's 10 weeks long though. They will then be trainers for the rest of their time as a conscript. Haha.. for us I think most conscript infantry NCOs who graduated from SCS will want to go back to become a BMT trainer. Life there is pretty good.
@@bigwhoopboy interesting! Only seasoned NCOs become drill sergeants for the US. They have a very fulfilling experience, but it’s a very tough assignment. Their working hours are horrible! They even actually get extra pay every month!
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Oh each company will have a Company Master Sergeant. This slot is usually reserved for Regulars (career soldiers, not conscripts.) who have served in active units. I'm guessing that is the equivalent. I wouldn't say life would be tough for them as instructors. I was lucky enough to be a part of an active unit, then spent some time as an instructor. There's stressful periods for sure when taking greenhorns out in the field, plus the type of recruit vary! It's a conscript army after all, and not everyone wants to be there. It's fulfilling though. If your company is not taking a batch, you basically do some planning/check stores... and the rest of the day you do "body maintenance" and use the facilities at the camp.
2 years of National Services and about another 10 years of reservists once or twice annually. Nowadays NS in the army are not as tough in my days (1978 - 1980). Most of our trainers are full professional soldiers and mostly trained by the Israeli army.
Singapore male is compulsory to serve the country but females are optional but female will train sprately and the bucket is for you to wash your laundrys
2 years full time..another 10 years..active reserve...battalions. The SAF can very quickly...expand in size..just like the Israel model ! We are the only country...where..American..Russian ..Ukrainian...Chinese...served..as 2nd generation PR..
Sergeants on camera: Come on, time to sleep, turn off the lights My Sergeants on the first day when the lights are not off by lights out: (Standing from the first floor) WHY ARE YOUR LIGHTS STILL ON, YOU ALL THINK THIS IS FUCKING JOKE IS IT!?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yes. Locked up in their bunk lockers during training. They're only allowed to be used after training and before lights out. If you get dismissed at 2229 and lights out is at 2230, well sucks to be you then.
The bucket is for fire fighting but we’ve never actually used it and during my time there isn’t water bodies large enough for scooping of water with the buckets . What it is mainly used for is for recruits to was their clothing
@@WestliFerZul But if I am not wrong, the washing machine is coin operated. Many recruits have much of their pay going to their savings plans with prudential savings plan probably lol.
At least in my company (Scorpion 2020) there wasn’t any washing machines/dryers. All cloths have to be hand washed, and we aren’t allowed to bring 80% of our clothes back home. So all the buckets are usually used for washing cloths.
It used to be much more intense more shouting more punishments like push-ups to name a few but in the recent years it has tonned down a lot mainly due to the newer generation of National service full time (NSFs) with our different mindset
I think it depends. This is one of the most tamed BMT I've seen. I enlisted in 2015, and it was a lot worse. But again, different company functions differently depending on their OC
@@klipklapklop3359 hmmm interesting. maybe the culture shifted. I remembered once my platoon mate stepped on a grass patch, my platoon commander came flying in asking him why did he step on his grass and made the whole platoon do push-ups including him. He was told to apologise to the grass for every push up we did. It was kind of funny, some laughed. So more push ups with apologising to the grass.
Trust me. On video, it looks mild. Once they are off camera, the sergeants will show their true colours. I served in NS years ago and this is not how real BMT should be.
I got thrown to SCDF instead for NS and had to say the same oath of allegiance. The "with my life" part has little meaning to me Also my first day after the family members left was "Welcome to NS fuck all of you"
Don't take this the wrong way man, but it seems like a Copyright Violation, No?? to post the entire Video, although I doubt the Singapore Army is going to take any Legal Action against this video..
Ironboy32 is correct. I will say this, I did cut about 1-2 minutes footage just to reduce the running time. I should be good…However, I did get a Copyright claim for this video on one of the songs in the video. 😂 I disputed it and haven’t heard back yet. Most likely, they will reject my dispute. Songs are notoriously hard to dispute with Copyright Claims, even if you are reacting to it all fair and square. Record companies are too greedy and they don’t care about the Fair Use law..
very toned down compared to pre covid years and pre generation years... conscription army compare to a professional where is your choice to join..i think the first day reception tend to be different naturally also. I remember my first day. we got fked immediately when sitting on the chair practicing taking the oath. but damn I miss my national service days.
either the sergeants/officers are nice cos its on cam (propanganda) or things have really softened from my time where you constantly hear vulgarities out from them, and "please" was something never heard...
To be honest everything in the video is quite toned down. When I was enlisted ot wast so friendly hahahaha. The moment I entered my company received various punishments and yelling and all sort of things
Army boys in singapore do get to book out every week unless there is training or u got into trouble with the drill sergeant whom we call “Encik” here, literally Sir in malay
@@JustAnotherArmyVet it's because at the end of the day, we're conscripts, not career soldiers. In the olden days the "confinement period" was longer, but generally speaking, we all get our weekends off.
This is so so so so toned down! I'm not sure if it's because of the camera or if it is a norm in today's practice. I served 2.5 years of NS during the late 80s.
Haha....the politeness and niceness for the family and camera is so fake. Once the family is out of view, that's when all the colourful language comes out. 🤣🤣🤣
@@JustAnotherArmyVet The objective is for a normal citizen to have the skills and capability to become a fighting force as and when needed. Which will be what they will mostly do in their 10 year cycle. Regimentation and drills is essential in some ways, useful as foundations of a learning soldier under training, once deployed, the focus will centre on becoming a fighting force.
Damn the current generation of BMT feels so brain-dead with everything being done so sequentially. But I guess with a camera crew there they have no choice but to follow the lesson plan step by step word for word 😅 But such nostalgia, nice to see that 13 years after I first enlisted that nothing much has changed apart form the fact they get a cool pixelized assault pack this time instead of this lousy slingbag that broke on me after 4 months and all the Covid measure. In my time our parents & friends came in with us and would tour our coy line to check out the facilities while we practice the oath taking before breaking for lunch after the ceremony and finally saying our goodbyes after lunch is over.
Our parents got to see a few things during Family Day (the day before graduation), such as marching demonstrations and is getting smoked. I don’t remember if they were allowed to go inside the barracks though…
@@JustAnotherArmyVet What does mats Jong demonstration & getting smoked means? Also how was your barracks like back in basic? Ours looked like a class C hospital ward only with double decker beds and no television
@@VampireSylphy sorry, that was a typo. Marching demonstrations! And getting smoked is when the drill sergeants make your do push-ups or some other exercise. Typically, it is used if you or your platoon (or company) get In trouble. Everyone may have to pay for somebody’s mistake. Most basic training barracks are 60 man bays, but mine was an 8 person room with 4 bunk beds.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Does it look like what is shown in Full Metal Jacket? Sounds tough 😣 In our army we call it tekan which is a word that means punishment if I recall correctly though in my company back in BMT the instructors like to use the word get fcked for punishments.
This is unlike those U.S soldiers who has strong interest,passion and love for military stuffs,weapons and career. The Singaporeans and Permanent Resident sons came from all walks of life, different backgrounds, races,educational level and financial status be it rich or poor family sons. All these poor guys are being forced to serve the military under the Singapore's constitutional law (The Enlistment Act. Chapter 93 (sso.agc.gov.sg/Act-Rev/EA1970/Published/20011231?DocDate=19950315) There are 2 choices for these young man, 1)Being a soldier , 2)Being a prisoner (As he refuse to join the military). Of course,the 1st option would be the best choice and seems to be a more honour positiion. Image that, a young man with no military interest all (Zero or none) were being forced to do something he does not want to do for becoming a soldier. It is just hell for a person to accept that especially someone does not to be in the military and kept his sorrow to contain it himself . High casualty,injury and death rate due to tough training,physically test and live munitions accidents. The Singapore Armed Forces training is on par with the Israel Defence Force standard which are quite physically demanding,harsh and also tough. Found an interesting video below for much earlier batch of Singapore recruit soldiers BMT final pass out activity in the 90's. All soldiers are required to be in Full battle order(FBO) that require soldier to carry a 30KG load and long march 24Kilomenters (KM) that will take 12 hours to completed. It was amazing for a normal person or civiliian can complete when he was in the military. The 24KM march still being practiced for recruit soldiers till today. ua-cam.com/video/Mdky2fOap9k/v-deo.html
Thank you for sharing!! Yes, I can imagine some of the men do not want anything to do with the military. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the kids ended up on suicidal watch…and yes, That is a far march. The final march at US Army basic is 12 miles. The standard Ruck sack is packed to about 35 lb -45 lbs. For some schools and badges, you have to complete a 12 mile Ruck marsh in 3 hours.
Serving to protect is part of a Singaporean men. If we don't there will be no singapore no home to go back to. War seems far away but it can be upon us in the shortest possible time. Look at Ukraine invaded because some underperformed bully don't feel "secure". Young men of all walk of life grew and understand each other during the two years of national services learning about different cultures
@@rainmanben neo nasi Azov is getting near to Moscow that why Putin need to lead an invasion toward Ukraine. All started since 2014 Ukraine coup. Our media won't tell you the complexity of this Ukraine War. It is like having a super well armed ISIS against Russian ethic in Eastern Ukraine.
Did you miss Singapore Navel Divers ua-cam.com/video/OtgcjTk4twk/v-deo.html , Battle of Mawari ua-cam.com/video/16gG-HfnYyg/v-deo.html , or Israeli Military Inventions? ua-cam.com/video/DOPXiSakbJE/v-deo.html
The headdress for recruits are the jockey caps. Berets are presented to all soldiers who have completed their trade courses in whichever arms they are posted to. Infantrymen light green berets, Guardsman (elite infantry) Kaki Berets, Armour black berets, support arms like signals, maintenance, artillery, medics dark blue berets, commandos (paratroopers) red berets. Every soldier will have their vocation badges sewed on the right collar.
An thanks for clarifying!
That is true but i somehow ended up with a black beret when im actually a medic XD like after completing my medic course they handed us black beret instead.
@@emogalgal7112 that’s weird.. how long was your medic course? My medic course was about 16 weeks.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet my medic course was 12 weeks
@@emogalgal7112 Are you sure it's not blue?
Looking forward to ur reactions to subsequent videos! There is also a series of the Singapore SOF (special operations force) selections (the first video has been released!, with subsequent videos released over the next few weeks). Do check them as this is the first time ordinary Singaporeans can catch a rare glimpse of the SOF selections trial!
Yes! That looks awesome! I have already reacted to the Naval Divers. Sometime after I finish this series, I may react to the SOF series.
NS is a 2-year complusory service (mostly with the armed forces, but some serve as police officers or firemen). This program shows the BMT (Basic military training), which is a 3 month phase for all recruits. It is held at BMTC, a series of camps on the island of Tekong.
Their instructors holding ranks of 3rd Sergeant (equiv of Sergeant in the US), are about a year their senior and been through BMT -> infantry specialist (3 - 6 months) -> instructors -> (platoon sergeant or company sergeant major course, (additional 2-3 months if they are so appointed)).
Their PCs (most PCs in BMT are commissioned officers, except some in BMT are WO) are similar, except they went to Officer Cadet School for 9 months and get their commissions. Whether one becomes sergeant or officer if they so volunteer to be a leader is almost entirely random - if they meet pre-requisites for leadership skills/education levels.
So nearly everyone's a conscript, including instructors. They are supervised by career soldiers (we call regulars), who are warrant officer/CPT ranks, being their OC / RSM / some PCs.
The drill sergeants/commanders seemed like they are so young. So, that makes sense.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet There are rare exceptions to the conscript instructor thing. When I was a platoon commander a couple of years back, at one point a bunch of non-commissioned regulars got posted to my company to take up instructor positions. It was a 'holding' position for them while waiting for some course or whatever to start. Can't remember the exact reason why. A bunch of 3rd and 2nd Sergeants. Even had one 30 year old 3rd Sergeant who was former NDU in my command team. Great guy, funny as hell.
@@diablolrm90 interesting!
@@JustAnotherArmyVet
1. Conscription into national service is not just 2 years of service.
2. Upon completion of 2 years of full time national service, they will be deployed to a reserve unit. They will then serve the reserve unit as a fighting force for the next 10 years or 10 cycles.
3. Reason they are fully trained and rised up the rank quickly in their short 2 years is for them to be able to run their own reserve units/battalion/division etc for the next 10 years once they have completed full time service as it's 100% run by reserves. So obviously you need different people with different specialties, skills and ranks to fill up those roles.
@@muhammadfairuzsamsi7209 well that does makes sense 👍🙂
during my time, it was a lot more hectic in comparison. the training here is really relaxed and calm in comparison to what i went through more than half a decade ago.
due to deaths and accidents, the army changed a lot of its standards and lowered it so as to appease the public. heightened safety has been a priority since.
another factor to why the sgts and officers being so calm is because they are under the camera, they dont want to show or cant show anything bad to the public.
Thanks for your insight! And that does makes sense 👍
20:46 - female recruits (all career soldiers) are enlisted as a whole company and they will have a female OC and PCs/specialists posted in from units for them. Their entire company (the building) will be out of bounds to male recruits and staff.
Of course such safety won't continue into the units, but that's the best they can do for BMT and also into command schools. By the time they get into units, they will be sergeants/officers a year later and should be able to take care of themselves.
Interesting! Everything is 100%integrated in the US military basic training, with the exception of Marines. They are slowly integrating female recruits into the male companies.
10:28 - Encik means 'Sir' in malay. Its an official and traditional way to address warrant officers in the SAF. Certain titles and all drill commands are in Malay, to preserve tradition and recognize them as the original inhabitants of Singapore.
Interesting!! I was thinking it meant sergeant or something. 🙂
@@JustAnotherArmyVet we used to call them just Sir, as with commissioned officers and ‘encik’ was an endearing title if we respect them. Then a few years ago, they made it official.
@@eatdriveplay 🙂
In my time, Encik was used to address company Sargent majors, typically a staff Sargeant rank. Warrant officers are addressed as Sir, same as commissioned officers. The regimental Sargeant majors are normally at least warrant officers.
Encik means uncle. Warrant officers are called Uncles in the British Army and Singapore being an ex colony adopted the practice
Hi! I'm a cadet of the National Cadet Corps in Singapore and the Junior ROTC in the US is somewhat similar to NCC as it is also sponsored by the army. In Singapore, it serves as a co-curricular activity for students where they can choose to be in it. Trainings are conducted in the respective schools by the most senior students who will have to go for external training to rank up at the Headquarters to train the junior cadets. I'm currently a senior cadet and is graduating from secondary school (High School) at the end of the year.
Thanks for sharing! Congrats on finishing up school! Fill you be able to apply to be an officer?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yes, I'll be able to apply as a cadet officer after my College Entrance examinations or "O" Levels.
@@BrendanTheTraveller good luck 🙂
I am also from the national cadet corps (sea) and i just started this year.
@@wadesiahgaming2072 you enjoying it so far?
Actually there's a lot of yelling and screaming, just that they dont do it when the camera's on ;)
😂😂
This kind of thing cannot anyhow tell people, nvm this weekend you confinement
@@VampireSylphy sorry sir. limpei ROD already lmao
@@sourdurian2839 You don't have to do army anymore because you ROD. I don't have to do army anymore because I gave up my citizenship after I ORD.
We are not the same.
Bro u rod alr very little screaming these adays now
14:26 - They aren't allowed to go home for the first 2 weeks, hence 12 days to the next weekend, before they 'book out'.
We call booking out/in for leaving or entering the camp because it involves signing on a book the time you enter/leave. :)
BMT is nearly 3 months, before they 'pass out'/graduate, have a one week break before postings to their units or schools.
US military doesn’t get to go home until after they graduate from their advanced school. Then they can choose to go home on leave for a few days or few weeks, before reporting to their first unit.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet tough life. Now it makes sense why they are in tears when embracing loved ones.
@@eatdriveplay yes 🙂❤️
We sign a book? My time we scan our 11B and that only happened in Tekong. After POP I just walked out the gate during book out time without signing anything since I was stay out
@@VampireSylphy lol. Which year? We scanned IC in and out of ferry terminal + show camp pass, but we still signed the book at the company line.
16:20 - phones only allowed at rest time, at the bunks for recruits... not allowed to be with them in training.
After lights out timing, they will get yelled at or punished if they are caught awake with their phones. The sergeants are on vigilant watch, to detect any depressed soldier, or anyone smoking illegally/taking drugs, or sneaking out to call their girlfriends all night.... etc.
I think the drill sergeants keep their recruits phones locked up during the week. The recruits only get phones for a few minutes to make a phone call home maybe on Sundays. I’m not sure how it is now at the different US basic training sites. That’s just what I heard. Thing do change all the time.
13:17 - we can wear either jockey caps or berets (coloured by vocation) for anyone private and above. Recruits can only wear jockey caps.
After the 3 months, they will go to their advance trade school and then they will get a beret?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet yup… also depends on their vocation and if they volunteered to be commanders.
Some will be sent to artillery, armour, admin assistants, drivers’ courses…. Or specialists cadet and officer cadet schools.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet as a driver sergeant, almost everyone hates the berets, and only use them during formal events. The jockey caps are far more comfortable and useful
With regards to the enlistee who mentioned that he is a PR in Singapore, it’s a legal legislation and a mandate that all boys of Singaporean citizen or Permanent Resident living in Singapore are to serve their National Service obligations for 2 years. Prior to that, many of the boys had just finish their college education (in Singapore’s context we address them as finishing their Polytechnic diploma education, JC or junior college education) the boys will have to attempt their pre-enlistment physical fitness test called IPPT or Individual Physical Proficiency Test to determine their level of fitness before they are being ensiled. Back in my NS days, all pre-enlistees will have to undergo medical screening to determine their PES status or Physical Employment Status. They will have to declare if they have existing medical conditions before the Ministry of Defence in Singapore will determine where they will get posted to. Singapore has three main organizations mainly the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)
Under the SAF umbrella, there is the Army, Navy and Air Force. I might be wrong on this and I welcome viewers on this channel to correct me so that you have an idea on how Singapore military works, the boys would be enlisted to the Army and thereafter being posted to various units within the SAF umbrella, call it sub-units/divisions if you may. Back to the topic of PES status, these pre-enlistees will have to undergo psychometric tests/assessment to ascertain their level of physio and psychological capabilities, the test in conclusion will determine which organization they will be posted to for them to serve their National Service with, so not all boys will end up in the Army to do their NS, some would be deployed to SPF or the SCDF (SCDF are firemen) to serve their national obligations. There are different level of PES status and are categorize in the alphabets of A to E if I’m not mistaken? A being physically combat fit to E being unfit for military service, those fall under the PES E status would skip the training regime and would get direct posting to being an admin clerk at an army camp for their two years of NS.
Fast forward after two years of serving NS, these boys that are trained soldiers would eventually reach a milestone called ORD or Operationally Ready Date which essentially means they have completed their two years of National Service. But that’s not all, after two years of NS, these trained soldiers will still carry on their daily lives as civilians/working adults but they will be recalled for mandatory yearly training called in-camp training (ICT) or simply reservist. It’s usually a two week affair going through the syllabus of the training/soldiering skills that they were taught and learn during NS. Some of us look forward to it because we can catch up with our platoon mates back in the day while some might find it as a waste of time going through the motion 🤷🏻♂️ this is how Singapore’s military cycle works, many boys feel that serving the nation is a waste of time but not until when something is being taken away, they will feel a sense of loss and honestly, Singapore is considered one of the safest cities in the world, though we do have crimes happening on the streets and neighborhood, low crime doesn’t mean no crime and we are really fortunate to have these selfless individuals who are serving the military to protect our country that we call home. Hope this gives you an insight of how Singapore military operates and it’s cool to see you react to Singapore’s military video as well as the Naval Diving Unit’s training in your earlier post. Good stuff! 👍🏻
Ah thank you so much!! I appreciate your kind words and I appreciate you explaining all of that 😁😁
8:40 because singapore is very small it is easy for parents to see them off at saf ferry terminal (before covid parents were allowed to enter bmtc)
Makes sense 🙂
the buckets are for washing their uniforms and clothing ik the toliet since for the first 2 weeks, they are gonna stay there at tekong for bmt :) there are no washing machine etc thus they will have to wash everything and clean everything themselves!
Not fun!!
8:32 Before COVID, family members were able to accompany the recruits to the military camp on enlistment day.
The recruits would head off to do some paperwork/get ready for oath taking, while the family members would be taken on a tour of the bunks(dormitories) and training facilities.
The family members would then witness the recruits' oath taking, join the recruits for a lunch, and say a farewell before leaving.
That seems like a nice and calm and easy going day compared to the US Military.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet bear in mind that we're almost all conscripts. If they started screaming at us like they do in the US army you'd be having a lot more AWOL and desertions. You guys have college educations being paid for and proper salaries, where in Singapore a recruit gets a measly $580 a month
@@ironboy3245 except if they sign on - they get backpaid upon commission/completion of specialist course, getting a 2LT or 3SG pay for all the previous months from enlistment.
@@eatdriveplay ord lo. I know, trust me
30 years ago I served 2.5 years. Hell started on the 1st day, the instructors will keep calling us to fall-in from our bunk to the parade square and if we can't do it in 2 mins we'll repeat the drill for the whole night, also we fall-in in push up position until everyone is in before we are allow to stand up, if the instructor is not happy we carry on to do push ups until his eyes get tired. Walking down the stairs is a crime, we have to jump the stairs to speedup. Shouting starts even before we reach the camp, I.e. taking the truck to the camp. Phone? What phone? Calling home is a luxury. The instructor will call for you if there's something happened to you, else just forget about home. It's so much different nowadays.
That sounds more like my experience as well, back in 2003. Those were the old school days!
@@JustAnotherArmyVet that's how to build a man. 👍🏻
@@hughlimws yes 🙂😁
first two weeks we call it 'honeymoon' period.. after that push ups and shouting every day 😅
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My one all the way welfare, all the sgt laugh and talk like bros for our whole bmt. Ngl I miss some of them
Watched your vids before my enlistment. Imagine my surprise to see myself in Dragon Coy itself with the very same enciks in the series to still be there.
Oh wow!! When did you graduate?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Haha, not yet. I'm a new recruit that just enlisted a month ago.
@@uselessheild123 is it as hard as you expected?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Physically, it isn't that bad since the training is progressive. What is hard is the mental game. Especially with how tired you can get after trainings.
@@uselessheild123 I can imagine
As a indian 🇮🇳 we love and respect Singapore army 👍👍👍
Cheers!
23:29 Its compulsory to do these kind of fire drills etc. Some of those youths are pretty much pampered to the point where they are clueless or dont react to certain emergencies at all. We have to literally teach them the baby steps to how things are done.
I can imagine. That are just young kids, growing up playing a lot of video games, coding, doing TikTok and stuff like that. They are the TikTok generation 😁
BMT or now they called BMTC ( basic military training course) is 3 mths back in my time in 90s. military service is term 2.5 years ( now 2 years). after completion of service, the men are require normally to back in reservist training approx 2 to 3 weeks yearly for the next 10 to 20 years depending on your rank. these men from BMTC will be together during their time in 2 year national service and also for the next minimum 10 years reservist period. this is to ensure the men know their buddies, cohesion to execute at platoon , company and battalion level.
Will all of those platoon mates go to the same job/speciality school after BMTC?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet nope, you get split up
@@JustAnotherArmyVet BMTC is common except for special force. After BMTC some will go go command course( officer) some specialist( sergeant). they will be posted to different unit to learnt different skills such as signals, armour, etc…then they will stay together during the remaining time left in the national service + 10 years or more of reservist
National Service is compulsory for citizens + children of permanent residents. First-generation adult PRs do not serve NS.
At around 16-18, their parents can decide if they serve NS and remain PR, or if not, the entire family loses their PR and will have extreme difficulty returning for employment/education.
Ah okay thanks
I was the 2nd generation PR in Singapore , my 2nd brother and I served the national service and we got our citizenships after we completed our service. (My brother served in the mid 70s and I served in 1986 to 1988)The other two of my brothers chose not to do the national service. But 10 years later they were given the citizenship. Our parents n sisters were also given the options to be Singaporeans, Or they could decide to stay as PR.
It's some kind of Starship Trooper kind deal. Service grants you Citizenship.
Would you like to know more?
@@nulnoh219 😂😂😂
@@nulnoh219 not really, there are also people who don’t get citizenship after serving and ICA won’t tell them why.
The 1st series debuted 12 years ago :) followed by the 2nd season. ua-cam.com/video/gxmp8nwQ43Q/v-deo.html
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Thanks!! 🙂
Regarding the issue of head dress, the Singapore Armed Forces have a few variations. Usually most soldiers will wear their jockey caps, berets are worn during ceremonies/parades or in office uniform (i.e. No. 3 Uniform). Recruits are not issued with berets as they are in basic training and have not been assigned a military specialty (i.e. vocation). Once a soldier has completed further training and have been assigned a specialty, they will be authorised to wear a beret corresponding to their specialty. Most of the Section Commanders were trained as infrantry troops, thus they are assigned a green beret. Some instructors within BMTC were trained as Guardsmen, which are troops that are trained in rapid deployment, heliborne and amphibious operations in addition to convention infantry tactics, thus they are seen wearing khaki berets. In Singapore, basic military training is common for all combat-fit members of the SAF, thus all soldiers, airmen and sailors will go through the same basic military training but it might be decentralised based on the requirements of various units.
Are the guardsmen kind of like the US Army Rangers?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet not really, whereas US Army Rangers are a special operation force, guardsmen are usually fielded alongside our infantry troops but have a wider range of tactics and equipment.
@@fonggf ahh okay, That sounds more
Like India’s Ghatak commandos.
Buckets
1. For the soldiers to soak and wash their cloths.
2. For emergency during fire breakout. To fight fire.
Thanks!
The buckets are for area cleaning, fire fighting, laundry services (there is no washing machines in BMTC, that is you washing machine.)
Ah thank you!!
14:04 yes NCC (National Cadet Corps) is similar to US Junior ROTC. I was in NCC and it is usually people from secondary school
Thanks for clarifying!
berets are to idenfty company units e.g. green infantry, khaki guards and maron commandos and so on their are total of 6 colours each presenting the unit or company
What color berets do medics wear?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet medics will wear basic on their post on which company or unit thier in etc.. for me i was a vehicle technician so we wore black berets the same as combat enigneers as is under the Maintenance & Engineering Support company
@@CT-Ryu “wear basic on their post”?
You only have jockey cap when you are just a recruit. Once you graduated from basic military, you will be promoted to private but still with jockey cap. After advance training then you will be given the beret.
Ahh thanks for clarifying!
FIrst generation PRs (permanent residents) are not required to serve NS (national service). However the sons (2nd generation PRs) of these residents will be required to.
Ahh thanks for clarifying!
Glad you got to it :)
'Encik" is a malay word for addressing middle aged males, similar to Mr or Sir.
Was that your idea? You suggested it? Thanks 🙂🙂👍
@@JustAnotherArmyVet haha yeah. We can get conscripted (averages out to 2 years of service) into Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), which are Army, Navy, Air Force | or Home Team, Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) which are firefighters and paramedics, and Singapore Police Force (SPF). I was in SCDF.
@@DeadDrunk1 was this video for the Army? Or all of the services?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet only the Army. Singapore really puts alot of its budget in the Army.
@@DeadDrunk1 ah okay. Can the conscripts choose what branch to serve in? Or does it have to be Army?
the buckets literally for people to get water and dump it on the fire 😂
What, no fire extinguishers? 😂😂
In Indian Military Training academics like OTA, NDA ,IMA,AFA, NA would can only talk to your family once/twice a month if permitted by the Academy.
No mobile phones allowed in NDA for 3 years basic training and IMA 1 year advance training
Wow. Are you allowed to have your phone ls on the weekends at NDA and IMA?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Strictly not allowed.
They create men out of boys without tech gadgets.
A very raw transformation of Officers.
They are trained for 4 years straight.
@@_nk_______ do they get summer breaks?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yes once a year for about 2-3 weeks.
Sometimes on Sundays if they perform well in the academy they are given a free day where they can visit the Pune City and enjoy the day.(But that's too rare case )
@@_nk_______ it’s good they get a break
Those buckets are for full up the water just in case of fires. Our amry has control on red zone an green for phone.
Ah thanks!
Love your Mandalorian T shirt!
Ah thanks!! 🙂🙂
Buckets are for in case of a real fire happening but we just use it to wash our clothes XD. There are 2 reasons to why there are no cursing, first is cause its in front of the camera and second is cause maybe they are mono-intake meaning the commanders follow them all the way through their 2 years.
Interesting!
From mono-intake between 2009 - 2010, non stop cursing, from 1 SIR at mandai hill camp
The Permanent Resident (Ramesh) has to serve national service because he has spent a large part of his growing up years in Singapore. So if he wishes to retain that status - he will be obligated to serve National Service. However if you become PR at a later stage in your life (say 30s or 40s), you will not have to serve national service.
Clarification to parents being around - Only for the first day, the parents get to sent their boys straight to BMTC and then say their good byes there.
Thanks for clarifying 🙂
From what I know, It is compulsory for Second Generation Permanent Residents to complete National service. that means if parents choose to migrate to Singapore and apply to be permanent residents, the children will have to serve. and only after serving can you obtain Singaporean citizenship. Also, Not all national servicemen will be under the ministry of defence. some will be posted to The Singapore Police Force to serve their national service. and others the Singapore Civil Defence Force (The fire protection and rescue agency in Singapore) as Firefighters or EMTs. Regarding your point about the 12 days, the first 2 weeks of the Basic military training is known as the confinement period. after that, recruits get to "book out" i.e go home for their weekends, and "book in" i.e return to camp for the weekdays. Generally, Book-out days are on Friday Evenings or Saturday Mornings, and Book-ins, Saturday Evenings or Sunday mornings. however, this depends on your performance, if you or someone in your platoon commits an offence or make mistakes, your leave may be shortened or cancelled. But I haven't enlisted so please don't quote me on anything.
Can they choose to do the SCDF or the other options? Or do they just get no say?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet They get no say.
@@ziyuansim5090 oh wow
@@JustAnotherArmyVet There's loopholes. Sort of. Like SPF are strict with tattoos so if you have them, they won't accept you, my brother got kicked out of SPF during enlistment day cos of that. There's also those with religious background, like muslims who studied in madrasah schools instead of secular schools, they tend to be posted to SCDF since they're discouraged from bearing arms. Military however doesn't care and takes in everyone. Quite a lot of my platoon mates had records and court cases; assault, rioting or juvenile charges etc.
@@Kaori_Saeki SPF police? They don’t carry guns?
2:41 haha ikr .
due to limited soliders , and majority of manpower being conscripted soldiers.
no choice , sgt in charge of section are usually also. in their conscripted.
no choice to follow suit with other country where drill sergeant is already a few years into service
How many years in the military to most of the drill sergeants have in?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet im not exactly sure .
i know rhey went to bmt , den specialist sch .
after wards it depends if they are goona be trainers or go into unit as sergeant.
less than 9months im thinking.
@@jianxiongRaven US military it’s generally at least 5-6 years plus. You have to be at least a sergeant. But most Drill sergeants are staff sergeants and
Some are sergeant first class. You can volunteer to go to Drill sergeant school or you can be selected (“voluntold”) to go.
After you pass the school, the tour is about 2-3 years.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet ah i see.
thats cool if only sg has something liddis , bt can understand why as i said
In singapore we're almost all conscripts. the only ones who serve voluntarily are some PRs looking for resident status and females. For females they get their own company for BMT and only integrate into units afterwards, usually with their own bunks
buckets are for washing clothes and putting fires out. or putting shit in. whatever is convenient at the time
Can permanent residence apply for citizenship after they serve in the military? Does it make the process easier?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet if their parents have citizenship they can I think, I'm not sure on that, my batch were all Singaporean
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yes. If you’re what is called a first generation permanent resident, say you just migrated into Singapore, National Service is not compulsory. If you’re a second generation Permanent Resident (that is, your mum and dad migrated and brought you over as their young kids) it is compulsory to serve NS if you’ve stayed in Singapore for any significant amount of time. Usually, you do get offered citizenship after serving NS. This applies only to men, though not females. Females do not have to serve and if they chose to, they usually join the army intending to be regulars.
@@Alasterius41 thanks for your insight!
For 2nd generation Permanent Residents need to serve National Service in SG. If they choose not to, they will not be able to continue to live in Singapore. BTW, the national service was reduced to 2 years. It was 2.5 years during my time🤨
Oooh interesting!!
Before they even went into BMTC, they will undergo medical check up to determine their PES (Physical Employment Standard) status, which are :
PES A Fit for all combat vocations
PES B1 Fit for most combat vocations
PES B2 Fit for some combat vocations
PES BP Fit for obese training
PES C Fit for combat support vocations
PES D Temporarily unfit for assessment and pending further review
PES E Fit for administrative duties only
PES F Medically unfit for any form of service
Obese training? Does that mean extra PT for a few months until they are fit?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Thats right, their time in BMTC will be longer
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yup,no one was spared under the constitutional law conscript military system. So long you are a male,not physically disabled,pass physical stress grade test (PES). Whether you are tall or short or fat does not matter. Young men are to service national service inthe military unwillingly.
Believe it the below or not. It is just a fact.
They will use you to sacrifice and mould you from civilian into a soldier just like installing a new copy of Windows O.S over you and you be brainwashed to give up your life for republic.
(Its actually more like serving starwars the first order instead of the serving the Republic. Alteratively ,it like serving the Gundam Zeon instead of the federation.)
So long you can walk, you have arms and fingers to operate firearms you be selected. What matter the most,is during war time,you will take cover to ambush or charge at your enemy, fire your firearm finish them with your M16/SAR21/Ultimax/HK416/P90/M110/M203/Matador and M240 and sacrifice your life is the outcome they wanted,fear is not an option. That is madness mindset required from a soldier. They have lots of firearm varieties from U.S , Europe to locally Sg made firearms model, they will issue one firearm to you and your cannot choose it.
Even since Sg's independence in 1965 the Military was always on standby for war mode till today just like the Israel.
The tough training can cause a soldier to lose his life even before going to a war.
How tense is it ? It is just like the North Korea and South Korean tensions as they are technically at war but stop shelling each other under an armistice.
The U.S military bases,fighter jets and U.S Naval 7th fleet in Singapore is just very much like the U.S Whitehouse and pentagon that supports the South Korea military.
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Females and males train together. But the females have a whole platoon to them selves. meaning there are only females in that platoon. Also, the female recruits are only designated to certain companies. Dragon company just isn't one of them
Ah thanks for clarifying!! 🙂
This series is kind of sanitised for consumption by the general public. Much less yelling and probably because it was filmed during the earlier part of the pandemic so everybody was stressed enough as it is. Many of the commanders are conscripts too and I guess the general stance was to avoid causing undue worry for the parents of the recruits who has their sons taken away from them during uncertain times when everybody was fighting agains an invisible army.
Yes,a son being taken away by constitutional law and being forced to becoming a soldier unwilling to serve and sacrifice his life for the country. Just like those ancient tribe movies , the slave or warrior to be sacrifice unwillingly.
Conscript military service is the worst kind of punishment recruitment method on earth that forces young man a liability to become a soldier and gave up his life unwillingly the fulfill national service requirement.
The parents missed their sons (Baby) and wonder if they will still be in one piece after the tough training and Covid risk.
Serving in Singapore military is much like serving in the North Korean military. Same conscript system, a way of forcing young men to commit serving the Military.
@@UtopiaParadiseValley BMT training isn't tough today lmao. Any dads/grandpas that served during the early days of the conscription system would classify BMT today as Boy Scouts camp.
Okay, I can see that. That makes sense
@@UtopiaParadiseValley It's unfortunate that there are individuals (I know of a few myself) that feel like you do. But the vast majority of those in my full-time unit (1991-1993) and reservist unit (1994-2006) including myself; do feel that it helped us mature, learn discipline and leadership skill. Not to mention self-defence (unarmed combat), first-aid, firearms, individual fieldcraft and jungle survival skills. Plus those that are posted to vocations such as MT (Motor Transport) Line drivers or Recce Bikers. Can directly convert their military driver's license into civilian ones!
The way I see it is that if you go into it with a negative closed mindset, you will not only not learn or benefit from the experience, but might actually become a hinderance/liability or even sabotage the rest of your section/platoon mates. Going into it with a positive mindset and a willingness to learn new skills and take on responsibilities has helped many Singaporean men (including a not so young 50 year-old man like myself) grow and mature through our late teens / early twenties. I dare say that the leadership, planning (esp. strategic and contingency planning) and scheduling skills have helped in the running of my one company and two businesses.
It's very sad and misguided (spiteful?) that you actually likened Singapore's NS with serving the communist North Korean military. If you had bothered to learn a bit about the country's history, you would have realised that one of the key reasons for Singapore to quickly develop and build it's own credible military defence force. Was precisely to counter the threat of communism that was threatening to win over most of Southeast Asia at that time!
Perhaps this video by VisualPolitik best sums up the country that Singapore's military is modelled on: ua-cam.com/video/taA-xVYtQWI/v-deo.html
Taiwan is also another state that has greatly helped and assisted Singapore in the early years of forming our military and we are eternally indebted to them! But that's for another discussion altogether.
@@eugenetan72 what I trying to day is. The Singapore Army is using a conscript military recruitment system same as the North Korea Army. So serving is Singapore Army is very much like serving in the North Korea army and very tough due to the conscript military system.
Yes in the late 60's to early 70's Singapore Creator work closely with the U.S and common allied like UK,Australia and New to fully expel and diminished the Mao's communism expansion from China propagated to Malaysia and then to Sigapore. But all those efforts are pretty much useless and outdated now.
Currently in the troubled times ,there is a serious change of state. The china communist is making a come back stronger and more defiant to spread communism for the second time. Influence its financial and Millitary power to Russia, Afghan,Turkey,Middle East,Iran,pakistan Africa,Argentina and Cuba. Having the calibre as the U.S.
China speedy building battle cruiser,frigates,amphibious LHD and Air carriers day and night like no nobody business and anything esle. They upgraded all their old ships with new high calibre cannon and hypersonic air,land & sea missile. AUKUS,Europe,Philippines,Korea and Japan cannot contain CCP Naval power any more.
The world and we are now under the communist threat from the sea. It is just waiting for the day meet head on with PLA amphibious Apcs,tanks and marines and infantry. They would just storm our shores just like pirates and buccaneers. No doubt high possible we may be the one fighting them in future as the active NSF was not enough. Too bad we don't have any coastal Artillery to due with the CCP Naval forces as we did not re-use all British Artillery forts such as fort siloso which was made to place heavy naval Artillery to handle threat from the seas in WWII.
Why is there a possibility of CCP will consider set sail south to liberate Singapore ? 1)They detest Sg to allied and linked up with the U.S and Europe Millitary. Just look at our Millitary inventories from U.S and the Europe countries.
2)A bad history linkage between Sun Yat Sun Taiwan and China that shouldn't have happened during WWII. China will will taking here just like taking back Taiwan.
3)Natural seaport,airport and good Artillery fort.
4)Lots of very hot targets like U.S military bases,fighters jets,Naval U.S.S like the littoral combat ships,Arleigh Burke Frigates,Ticonderoga-class cruiser and U s Navy Aircraft carrier 7th fleet task force.
Thanks for SG warm hosting of them as a military allied. We gonna fight the CCP even we don't want to due the CCP's hostile stance. Hopefully by then all U.S Naval vessel fight them together with us.
Just look at Ukraine war. China and Russia are very close allies, they are strong military might with heavy firepower. Things can happen any time. That's why all our military units are stepping up trying frequencies. Sg for being a second Taiwan is likely possible. Majority of our population are Chinese Probability of CCP coming at us before Taiwan The amount of battleships that China has is unacceptable for the world and there are more to come. Those CCP.naval ships can handle or take down any Air,land and sea targets. How to sleep peacefully at night where you thinking when a CCP Naval Artillery shell will fall onto you.
Sergeants were never this kind back in the day. They were more like the what they are in the US Army; think Full Metal Jacket.
Okay, I guess times has changed…or the cameras are just on 😂
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Actually, times have changed. Back in the day, the NCO were all trained by the Israeli Army, and you know how tough the Israelis are.
The buckets are to wash our clothes and uniforms as there are no washing machines :)
Thanks for your insight! I appreciate it 🙂
No he volunteered, because he feels that Singapore is his home, expatriates living in Singapore from other countries are not required to serve no matter what age the come, but their children that are born there if they decide to make a life there are going to be required to serve.
Got it, thank you so much!!
3:34 2WD Arun Kumar is of Indian origin.
Singapore is definitely a diverse country!
@ninrajan, in Singapore, we don't look at races that way. Most of us are 4th or 5th generation in, from 100 - 200 years ago.
Race is a cultural background/identity, but Chinese/Malay/Indians are all just Singaporeans to us...
@@eatdriveplay 🙂❤️👍
Singapore army, police or fireman instructors are fond of using these phrases when trying to psyche up, demoralize or simply insult recruits:
My grandmother can run faster than you
My grandmother can jump higher than you
My grandmother can shoot better than you etc... etc😆
All those instructors have the same mindset
😂😂😂
Until you realise one of their grandmother was a volunteer against the Japanese occupation of singapore. Hahaha I would go and salute her immediately.
@@LooNciFeRx oh wow! I didn’t even know that Japan had occupied Singapore! And the US uses phrases like that also. My grandmother can run faster than you! 😂
My son was enlisted just recently and didn’t have to bring the bucket with him during the fire drill. :) Unfortunately, many of them came down with Covid. He came back for his first book out day and fell sick. His siblings caught it too. 😅
Awe, I hope everyone is feeling better 🙏🙂
Times have changed indeed. Perhaps its for the cameras and covid changed the mood. Did my NS in 2004. No shortage of vulgarities from the drill sergeants
It may just be for the cameras
@@JustAnotherArmyVet haha one of the silly punishments drill sergeants used to do. See the tree over there, run to the tree and kiss the tree and come back. Lol
@@phaze88 😂😂😂
@@phaze88 I am sure some US drill sergeants have done the same (or similar)!😂😂
whether u are Singapore Permanent residents or Singapore Citizen, u have to undergo national service, Male and female recruits train separately.
Thanks for clarifying 🙂
@@JustAnotherArmyVet to add on: it is not compulsory for females to serve NS. So for those that do, they are either signing on as career soldiers, or (I'm not 100% sure) part of the Volunteer Corps.
@@nostaku interesting! I wonder what the percentage/ratio of males to females is in the Army….
@@JustAnotherArmyVet I'm curious too. I have a feeling that there are more females in our AIr Force and Navy compared to the Army, but I could be wrong too.
@@nostaku that sounds right. US Marines Army, & Coast Guard have lower percentages, while the Navy and Air Force are a higher percentage.
For PR i think its mandatory to serve NS in order to become PR... im not a 100% sure tho
PR?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet permanent resident like that guy in the vid...i remember vaguely about how declaring that u will serve NS will allow u to be automatically become PR or boost ur chances tremendously
@@yoruichi7918 ahh yes. Lol. Thanks!! I appreciate your insight!
This is so calm, I remember alot of confusion, alot of kissing the floor (push ups punishments), cursing and shouting, and fantasing about fking the sergeants's mothers
😂😂😂 Yes, this was very tame and calm
Nice vids.
1) Do take note that the videos are from the official mouthpiece of the Singapore Armed Forces. The footage and training has been made more palatable for the audience to give them a peace of mind. People watching could be parents/relatives. In normal companies, you spend quite a lot of time facing the ground, if you get what I mean. My company had this infamous "training shed" slot which just consisted of a constant barrage of insults and punishment for hours on end.
2) The company in this video is led by a Warrant (Encik). Encik companies are known to be relatively less hard on the recruits. This is not to say that recruits from there do not get the full training. In fact they may pick up some tidbits based on years of experience by these Enciks. I've been to OCS and some of my fellow cadets were from Encik companies. Their standards and ability to endure hardship were no different to mine.
An example would be the fire drill. In this video they seemed to do it once. Mine lasted 4 hours with an impossible timing.
3) All in all, it really depends on which company you are streamed to and how "enthusiastic" the trainers are.
Thank you so much for explaining l that. Do the Enciks and trainers have to go to any kind of drill sergeant /trainer school? In the US Army, NCOs can get “voluntold” or they can volunteer for Drill sergeant school, which is about 10 weeks longs. They then do a 2-3 year tour as a drill sergeants.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet After BMT, the recruits are sent to either Specialist Cadet School (SCS), Officer Cadet School (OCS), or a unit to further their training. The training period depends on where you are placed.
Specifically for your question, the NCOs may get posted back to BMT to become trainers after they graduate from SCS. There will be a short trainer course for them to learn the ins and outs of training recruits. I don't think it's 10 weeks long though. They will then be trainers for the rest of their time as a conscript.
Haha.. for us I think most conscript infantry NCOs who graduated from SCS will want to go back to become a BMT trainer. Life there is pretty good.
@@bigwhoopboy interesting! Only seasoned NCOs become drill sergeants for the US. They have a very fulfilling experience, but it’s a very tough assignment. Their working hours are horrible! They even actually get extra pay every month!
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Oh each company will have a Company Master Sergeant. This slot is usually reserved for Regulars (career soldiers, not conscripts.) who have served in active units. I'm guessing that is the equivalent.
I wouldn't say life would be tough for them as instructors. I was lucky enough to be a part of an active unit, then spent some time as an instructor. There's stressful periods for sure when taking greenhorns out in the field, plus the type of recruit vary! It's a conscript army after all, and not everyone wants to be there. It's fulfilling though.
If your company is not taking a batch, you basically do some planning/check stores... and the rest of the day you do "body maintenance" and use the facilities at the camp.
@@bigwhoopboy same with the US. In between cycles, there is a lot of the same thing 🙂
It's 22 months of National Service
Ah thanks!
@@JustAnotherArmyVet no problem dude.😊
I enjoy your channel dude..👍👍
2 years of National Services and about another 10 years of reservists once or twice annually. Nowadays NS in the army are not as tough in my days (1978 - 1980). Most of our trainers are full professional soldiers and mostly trained by the Israeli army.
Do they train in Singapore or in Israel?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet
Mostly Singapore, maybe some in Israel 🇮🇱 but I never met anyone.
Singapore male is compulsory to serve the country but females are optional but female will train sprately and the bucket is for you to wash your laundrys
Thank you!
5:57 He's Indian too
Ah yes
Those buckets are for putting out fire 🔥 and also for recruits to do their laundry if needed.
Ah thank you!!
2 years full time..another 10 years..active reserve...battalions. The SAF can very quickly...expand in size..just like the Israel model ! We are the only country...where..American..Russian ..Ukrainian...Chinese...served..as 2nd generation PR..
Thank you kindly! I appreciate you clarifying for me 🙂
i would say times has change. during our time. phones are not allowed. which is 17 years ago
Back in 2003, all I had access to were pay phones. Lol
Sergeants on camera: Come on, time to sleep, turn off the lights
My Sergeants on the first day when the lights are not off by lights out: (Standing from the first floor) WHY ARE YOUR LIGHTS STILL ON, YOU ALL THINK THIS IS FUCKING JOKE IS IT!?
😂😂
Well there are allowed to have their phones but they will do a check
Do they have to lock up their phones for training? Or can they keep it on them?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yes. Locked up in their bunk lockers during training. They're only allowed to be used after training and before lights out. If you get dismissed at 2229 and lights out is at 2230, well sucks to be you then.
@@diablolrm90 😁
Look at the sergeant chest the rank is there
👍🙂
They bring the bucket and helmet to fight fire.
Okay, thanks! Do they fill it with water? Or is it empty?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet they bring it empty as part of the drill to be used during fire.
@@johnathanng4461 okay, makes sense
The bucket is for fire fighting but we’ve never actually used it and during my time there isn’t water bodies large enough for scooping of water with the buckets .
What it is mainly used for is for recruits to was their clothing
They don’t have a washing machine or dryer? They have to hand wash all their uniforms?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet nope hand washing in bmt in unit there’s washing machines and dryer
@@klipklapklop3359 BMT now have washing machines. At least when I enlisted (2011).
@@WestliFerZul But if I am not wrong, the washing machine is coin operated. Many recruits have much of their pay going to their savings plans with prudential savings plan probably lol.
At least in my company (Scorpion 2020) there wasn’t any washing machines/dryers. All cloths have to be hand washed, and we aren’t allowed to bring 80% of our clothes back home. So all the buckets are usually used for washing cloths.
Its a 2 year commitment
Thanks for clarifying!
Singapore has a large Indian Diaspora living there.
Interesting! I didn’t realize that
@@JustAnotherArmyVet they have some sort of defense pact with india as well and I think india has a base in Singapore.
@@ChiefJoey5971 I think that is true. I may have heard that somewhere
@@ChiefJoey5971 we have defence co-operation with India but no pact also there r no foreign base in Singapore
7:11 he have to if hes a 2nd gen PR
Thanks!
@@JustAnotherArmyVet 👍
It used to be much more intense more shouting more punishments like push-ups to name a few but in the recent years it has tonned down a lot mainly due to the newer generation of National service full time (NSFs) with our different mindset
I think it depends. This is one of the most tamed BMT I've seen. I enlisted in 2015, and it was a lot worse. But again, different company functions differently depending on their OC
Interesting…. Well, tame is okay, just as long as Singapore doesn’t go “woke” like the US Army. Lol 😂
@@Syn741 2021 batch
@@klipklapklop3359 hmmm interesting. maybe the culture shifted. I remembered once my platoon mate stepped on a grass patch, my platoon commander came flying in asking him why did he step on his grass and made the whole platoon do push-ups including him. He was told to apologise to the grass for every push up we did. It was kind of funny, some laughed. So more push ups with apologising to the grass.
@@Syn741 🤣🤣🤣
Female can volunteer and they will be train separately. The number is very small.
Thank you!
Caps are exclusively for recruits…
Thanks!!
14:06 nah not really.
it looks and sounds like but it isnt .
👍🙂
@@JustAnotherArmyVet if only there were haha
Trust me. On video, it looks mild. Once they are off camera, the sergeants will show their true colours. I served in NS years ago and this is not how real BMT should be.
Ah okay, good to know 🙂
This looks a lot milder than in reality. Think it's not to scare their parents since they are conscripts. Lol
Makes sense. Plus, the cameras are on. Lol
I got thrown to SCDF instead for NS and had to say the same oath of allegiance. The "with my life" part has little meaning to me
Also my first day after the family members left was "Welcome to NS fuck all of you"
😂 Oh wow.
Don't take this the wrong way man, but it seems like a Copyright Violation, No?? to post the entire Video, although I doubt the Singapore Army is going to take any Legal Action against this video..
its legal, due to fair use laws. she's reacting to it, which is considered a transformative act.
Ironboy32 is correct. I will say this, I did cut about 1-2 minutes footage just to reduce the running time. I should be good…However, I did get a Copyright claim for this video on one of the songs in the video. 😂 I disputed it and haven’t heard back yet. Most likely, they will reject my dispute. Songs are notoriously hard to dispute with Copyright Claims, even if you are reacting to it all fair and square. Record companies are too greedy and they don’t care about the Fair Use law..
The bucket is to help to distinguish fire🤪
Thanks!
extinguish*
@@za7v9ier 😁👍
Buckets for fire fighting. Get water and pour onto fire.
Thanks!
very toned down compared to pre covid years and pre generation years...
conscription army compare to a professional where is your choice to join..i think the first day reception tend to be different naturally also. I remember my first day. we got fked immediately when sitting on the chair practicing taking the oath. but damn I miss my national service days.
I miss my army days, but not everything. I miss the camaraderie, but I don’t miss the BS.
either the sergeants/officers are nice cos its on cam (propanganda) or things have really softened from my time where you constantly hear vulgarities out from them, and "please" was something never heard...
This “may” be a camera thing. But, maybe not. And I never heard the word please while I was at Boot camp. 😂
To be honest everything in the video is quite toned down. When I was enlisted ot wast so friendly hahahaha. The moment I entered my company received various punishments and yelling and all sort of things
Ha ha! Sounds like my experience. 😁
The buckets r for washing your clothes.
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The buckets are for us to wash our clothes
Do they have access to any washing machines or dryers?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet nope were not allowed to use them before enlisting we were told to bring our detergent and clothes hangers too
Once after the confinement week were allowed to bring back our clothes back home to wash them over the weekends
@@kennn2lol857 interesting!
After 12 days they can go home weekly
Awesome! Not the case with the US
Army boys in singapore do get to book out every week unless there is training or u got into trouble with the drill sergeant whom we call “Encik” here, literally Sir in malay
@@cheenangng4050 no such thing in the US military’s basic trainings. No weekend passes.
@@JustAnotherArmyVet it's because at the end of the day, we're conscripts, not career soldiers. In the olden days the "confinement period" was longer, but generally speaking, we all get our weekends off.
@@nostaku that’s a good deal
This is so so so so toned down! I'm not sure if it's because of the camera or if it is a norm in today's practice. I served 2.5 years of NS during the late 80s.
Yes, it does seem very toned down…
buckets are taking water for saving fire Mdm..))
Thanks!!
Haha....the politeness and niceness for the family and camera is so fake. Once the family is out of view, that's when all the colourful language comes out. 🤣🤣🤣
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Army used to be very regimental but as time goes by, SAF relies instead of spending time on drilling, more time should be spent on actual training.
Drilling, as in marching?
@@JustAnotherArmyVet yap
@@JustAnotherArmyVet
The objective is for a normal citizen to have the skills and capability to become a fighting force as and when needed. Which will be what they will mostly do in their 10 year cycle. Regimentation and drills is essential in some ways, useful as foundations of a learning soldier under training, once deployed, the focus will centre on becoming a fighting force.
@@muhammadfairuzsamsi7209 🙂👍
greece next please
I’m thinking maybe next next week. Any video on Greece? I have a bunch saved…
@@JustAnotherArmyVet chose on of those you have i am sure you will do the right chose as always
@@timosthomo566 I will just choose one of those. I think most of them came from you, but possibly not all. 🙂
@@JustAnotherArmyVet I will wait your reaction
@@timosthomo566 🙂
Damn the current generation of BMT feels so brain-dead with everything being done so sequentially. But I guess with a camera crew there they have no choice but to follow the lesson plan step by step word for word 😅
But such nostalgia, nice to see that 13 years after I first enlisted that nothing much has changed apart form the fact they get a cool pixelized assault pack this time instead of this lousy slingbag that broke on me after 4 months and all the Covid measure. In my time our parents & friends came in with us and would tour our coy line to check out the facilities while we practice the oath taking before breaking for lunch after the ceremony and finally saying our goodbyes after lunch is over.
Our parents got to see a few things during Family Day (the day before graduation), such as marching demonstrations and is getting smoked. I don’t remember if they were allowed to go inside the barracks though…
@@JustAnotherArmyVet What does mats Jong demonstration & getting smoked means? Also how was your barracks like back in basic? Ours looked like a class C hospital ward only with double decker beds and no television
@@VampireSylphy sorry, that was a typo. Marching demonstrations! And getting smoked is when the drill sergeants make your do push-ups or some other exercise. Typically, it is used if you or your platoon (or company) get In trouble. Everyone may have to pay for somebody’s mistake. Most basic training barracks are 60 man bays, but mine was an 8 person room with 4 bunk beds.
@@VampireSylphy the barracks only have bunk beds and wall lockers. No chairs, tables, or anything else…
@@JustAnotherArmyVet Does it look like what is shown in Full Metal Jacket? Sounds tough 😣
In our army we call it tekan which is a word that means punishment if I recall correctly though in my company back in BMT the instructors like to use the word get fcked for punishments.
This is unlike those U.S soldiers who has strong interest,passion and love for military stuffs,weapons and career. The Singaporeans and Permanent Resident sons came from all walks of life, different backgrounds, races,educational level and financial status be it rich or poor family sons. All these poor guys are being forced to serve the military under the Singapore's constitutional law (The Enlistment Act. Chapter 93 (sso.agc.gov.sg/Act-Rev/EA1970/Published/20011231?DocDate=19950315)
There are 2 choices for these young man, 1)Being a soldier , 2)Being a prisoner (As he refuse to join the military). Of course,the 1st option would be the best choice and seems to be a more honour positiion. Image that, a young man with no military interest all (Zero or none) were being forced to do something he does not want to do for becoming a soldier. It is just hell for a person to accept that especially someone does not to be in the military and kept his sorrow to contain it himself . High casualty,injury and death rate due to tough training,physically test and live munitions accidents. The Singapore Armed Forces training is on par with the Israel Defence Force standard which are quite physically demanding,harsh and also tough.
Found an interesting video below for much earlier batch of Singapore recruit soldiers BMT final pass out activity in the 90's. All soldiers are required to be in Full battle order(FBO) that require soldier to carry a 30KG load and long march 24Kilomenters (KM) that will take 12 hours to completed. It was amazing for a normal person or civiliian can complete when he was in the military. The 24KM march still being practiced for recruit soldiers till today.
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Thank you for sharing!! Yes, I can imagine some of the men do not want anything to do with the military. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the kids ended up on suicidal watch…and yes, That is a far march. The final march at US Army basic is 12 miles. The standard Ruck sack is packed to about 35 lb -45 lbs. For some schools and badges, you have to complete a 12 mile Ruck marsh in 3 hours.
Serving to protect is part of a Singaporean men.
If we don't there will be no singapore no home to go back to.
War seems far away but it can be upon us in the shortest possible time. Look at Ukraine invaded because some underperformed bully don't feel "secure".
Young men of all walk of life grew and understand each other during the two years of national services learning about different cultures
@@rainmanben neo nasi Azov is getting near to Moscow that why Putin need to lead an invasion toward Ukraine. All started since 2014 Ukraine coup. Our media won't tell you the complexity of this Ukraine War. It is like having a super well armed ISIS against Russian ethic in Eastern Ukraine.