Signing on Navy???

• BMEngineer

  11 Jul 04, 17:40

  Originally posted by wuming78:

  u r in ptp rite? fitness takes time to build up. if tt is a major concern, i think u can still consider. however if u r quite sure u will dread the taking of ippt annually then perhaps, yah, its not the rite profession for u

  Yes i am in ptp. 1 more week to go before ptp ends. I feel that if i can train until i can pass ippt, i am sure wanna keep up with that standard...however the fact is that i still cant pass my ippt now. Maybe that is the main reason why i now feel that signing on is not for me...
• NathanG5

  11 Jul 04, 17:55

  Originally posted by BMEngineer:

  Yes i am in ptp. 1 more week to go before ptp ends. I feel that if i can train until i can pass ippt, i am sure wanna keep up with that standard...however the fact is that i still cant pass my ippt now. Maybe that is the main reason why i now feel that signing on is not for me...

  aim for gold pls..not just a pass..your fitness wont budge if u aim for pass only..
• washer

  4 Aug 04, 16:24

  Originally posted by |-|05|:

  actually unless you get promoted out of the ship or request a transfer,you would usually stay there for a long long time.During the navy open house i asked 1 guy and he told me that he has been on that ship for 4 years and he most prob wont be going anywhere

  Hi just wondering .. when someone is assigned to a ship for 4 years, roughly how much of that 4 years he will be away sailing? And when he comes back to Singapore/ Base, is he still working or can have time to go back home?
• NDU

  9 Aug 04, 09:27

  welcome mate
• sdhao

  12 Oct 04, 19:04

  Hi, I am also interested in signing on as a navy officer, however my mother is an indonesian PR for a long long time. I am just wonder if this will affect my promotion or the job i do in the future if i sign as an officer because i have heard many other stories about such thing happening...
• Arena

  16 Oct 04, 19:56

  Originally posted by BMEngineer:

  Hi. I am going for PTP next Tuesday and i have been considering my career with SAF, becoming a Naval Officer is one of them.
  
  Some questions:
  1. I can sign on as a naval officer during BMT rite?
  
  2. How long is the contract for Naval Officer?
  
  3. How is life being a Naval Officer?
  
  4. Is it hard to become one?....as in will there be stringent selection for Naval Officer rite?

  signing on with navy as a conventional sailor may be good for some and bad for some... it depends on the class of ship u are posted to and most importantly the ship u are posted to...
  If u don't have a degree or can't get a LSA at least, dun sign on with the navy to be an officer... cuz u will be a farmer and u will shit jobs alot and maybe targeted...
  An officer with a degree and an officer with a diploma who commits the same mistake, the diploma officer will gets screwed till v jialat... if's wat i have seen...
  and lotsa shit jobs oso... i have seen a diploma officer who everytime gets crewed by his CO... and he had grew numb of all the screwing liao...
  but 1 thing for sure, he will gets lotsa experience cuz he does most of the shit job...
  there's a degree officer who DONT even know how to operates a CIS 50cal MG properly, dun even knows how to secure the gun and dun even knows how to tie knots and so on... but he's favoured than the diploma officer...
  
  if u have a diploma only... it's wiser to sign on as spec if u r considering a conventioanl navy career...