That is why I cannot understand when people claim he is compassionate. . Where NS was concerned he was not prepared to listen to reasons. It was his idea and nobody must oppose it. The Isrealis and old full time regualrs ( many of whom were of a particular race) were SKUNKS! They were sadists and torturers not trainers!
During those days there were poor hawker parents with only one son who approached them about exemption - cut no dice with him.
THE ARMY during GKS days!
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In the early days you report sick you kena terok terok- it was almost like you kena punished for reporting sick.!
The Bloody combat chicken they threw to us for food, in the camp was horrigible
and the dirty mugs and mesh tins had to be polished just like your boots until you can see your face in them!
For stand by bed your mesh tins and water bottle had to be shining -
YOUR uniforms had to be starch so hard that it could literally stand up at attention on its own without your wearing it!
The bloody steel helmet weighed so bloody heavily on your head in the hot sun absorbed even more heat!
AND All these stupid things HIS BLOODY ARMY made us do!
1)Imagine giving us recruits a stupid 4 inche jack knife and making us cut grass with it at SAFTI? really dumb stupid things w ehad to submit to!
2)If the toilet walls were not well cleans the SGT Maj made you lick the toilet walls! tha that sort of abuse!
3)carrying granite and making roads for SAFTI and using branches of trees to tar the road! ridiculous! really cheap labour!
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I call that the epitome of stupidity! instituted by a so called brilliant economist of the day, who didn't need to undergo all that stupidity himself ?
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65 individuals were stuffed in one platoon sharing 4 toilet bowl- imagination the problem every morning just lining up in four details one behind th eother - to clear your bowels! Thanks to GKS again!
TO GKS it must be very funny- a whole load of educated A level students being treated that way! I can well understand why those doing NS in those days and their parents really hated himand cursed him to high heavens!
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Interesting the age for NAtional Service cut off line was those born after 1949- and his only son Kian Chee was spared. And even if he had to do NS - as a white horse it would have been different.compared to the plebians' children!
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