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SINGAPORE: From July, over 40,000 full-time NSmen will receive a monthly rank allowance of S$400, up by S$50.
Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean announced this at the launch of NS40, a series of events to commemorate 40 years of national service.
He also said a group of key appointment holders will get a 20 percent increment in rank allowances because these people are required to serve longer in-camp training (ICT) and are made to carry heavier responsibilities.
For Robert Bong, an IT Consultant at CRICT Research and Consulting Group, the NS40 exhibition at Ngee Ann City is a journey down memory lane.
In 1976, the then recruit, served his national service at Pulau Tekong and the only time spent in the bunk was in the evenings after training.
He said: "But after finishing the ironing and polishing, we couldn't do anything else because the lights went off at 11pm. We would sit outside the old bunk, look over the water into the east coast part of Singapore and feel very homesick!"
Since Colonel Bong's time, wireless classrooms and LAN-based simulation games have become part of everyday training.
Michael Palmer, MP, Pasir Ris GRC, said: "The army has changed it's a lot more intellectual, more technical and more technological. I was just talking to one of the lieutenant colonels who was in my batch at OCS and we were reflecting that our officers now are actually taught to lead. In our days, we were tortured to lead."
Members of the public can also get a taste of being part of a Civil Defence rescue operation at a simulator display at the exhibition.
From detecting casualties to rescuing people from wreckage, the simulation gives the public a better appreciation of what the rescue team does.
The NS40 exhibition is held till 15 April.
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$50 to keep our mouth shut so that it aint just the minister who get pay rise.
those 18-19yr young men get $50 more who risk their life, waste their youth compare to our very minister who get $300k-500k more sit in airconditioner room, attending daily lunch, dinner session with various grassroots/ politicians as pure harder work.
now that what i call "uniquely Singapore"
NSmen 1st sergeant
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Originally posted by saline:"they give u fifty dollars, they take back forty nine".
and then collect back the other 51 in GST and new innovative taxes designed to help us "save money and pay less tax" explanation used to manipulate people to accept more taxes. GST, ERP and etc were introduced like this mah...
Edited by mistyblue 16 Apr `07, 4:13PM
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imagine govt have this opt-out scheme.
instead of compensating NSmen for in-camp training, let NSmen pay the govt the price of rank+vocation pay for NOT serving ICT.
will you opt out?
must keep in mind that each opt-out will cost you your rank pay, vocation pay and the recent increase of FIFTY DOLLARS.
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Please lah, lets all get real.
We have been conned to serve the nation for almost nothing.
Is it worth it to die for the country?
Why did Iraq loose the war to USA so quickly?
Isnt it because Saddam Hussein treated his soldiers like dirt?
For example, any Iraqi soldiers who returned from POW camp in Iran had their ears cut off. As a warning to other soldiers. And the soldiers were poorly paid, some didnt receive salaries for months.
Will you stand and fight and die for Singapore with the way they paid us?
What will we be fighting for? To protect Government's investments, banks, properties and businesses - thats what!
And of course the growing foreigners in here.
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