Celebrating 104 years of NCC
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guess i'm a bit late. but today 15th May 2005 marks 104 years of NCC. check out the history below.
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The National Cadet Corps - Preparing Future Generations of Loyal Citizens and Able Leaders
With a history that spans more than 100 years, the National Cadet Corps trains more than 5,000 secondary school students each year, both male and female. Many of these students have voluntarily continued in active participation even after completing their secondary school education.
The history of the NCC can be traced back to the formation of the first Army Cadet Corps in Raffles Institution on 15 May 1901. A second unit was formed in St Joseph's Institution the next year. The aim in those early years was to prepare students for the Singapore Volunteer Corps (SVC), a military reserve for the Straits Settlements. While the initial start-up was slow, the NCC movement took a leap forward in the 1920s with the aggressive recruitment of members. Among them was Singapore's first President, Yusof Ishak. He has the distinction of being the first student cadet to be commissioned as Cadet Lieutenant. The NCC continued to grow by leaps and bounds throughout the 1930s and 40s, and by 1949, there were also the Sea Cadet Corps and Air Training Corps.
In the early days, the NCC was managed at various periods by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Interior and Defence (MID). In 1969, the NCC HQ was formed, integrating the land, sea, air and Girls' units, together with NCC Police). With the split of the MID into the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Home Affairs in 1970, the police cadet corps element broke away to become the National Police Cadet Corps (NPCC). With progressive growth and the increasing need to improve training facilities for the effective implementation of the NCC programme, HQ NCC moved several times from Pearl's Hill to Tanglin and then to Haig Road.
left: Cadet Officers from Raffles Institution
right: Cadets undergoing a proficiency test, 1954
On 30 May 2001, the NCC celebrated its 100th anniversary with the official opening of its new campus at Amoy Quee Camp. The camp is well-equipped to train cadets in routine military drills as well as other joint programmes with the SAF as part of the long-standing SAF-NCC Affiliation Scheme. The three Services of the SAF, the Army, Navy and Airforce, unflaggingly provide extensive support for the NCC in terms of professional advice, training means and resources. One of the primary aims of the NCC programme in fact is to prepare male cadets for National Service. Indeed, the whole NCC experience is an exercise in physical training, discipline, psychological preparedness, mental endurance and tenacity. It is part and parcel of citizenship education which cultivates such values as loyalty to the country, discipline and leadership.
Official opening of the Amoy Quee Campus, May 2001
“The SAF believes in the effectiveness of the NCC in preparing our youth for National Service. For this reason, the SAF started Affiliation Schemes between Army Divisions and the NCC’s Land Districts since 1969, and between the Navy and Air Force with NCC (Sea) and NCC (Air) since 1986 and 1987 respectively. Under the Affiliation Schemes, the SAF provides officers and specialists to assist the NCC in training the cadets, in testing their proficiency and organising visits to various SAF units. Cadets also get to use training facilities such as electronic ranges and stimulator training.
To further strengthen the link between the SAF and NCC, the SAF Unit Advisors Scheme was launched in 2000. Experienced SAF officers are assigned to school units to …improve the quality of training and administration in the units.”
Then Chief-of-Defence Force, LG Lim Chuan Poh -
i dun know the rest but i just dun know why, most of the Cadet 2LT or LTA who enlist later on, mostly or i should say all that i know ie my school/class mate had become driver or clerk. some had even went for the BAC during school time.
did NCC teach them how to keng? -
I was never in NCC....
i was in st john... -
Mmm.. one of my CLT was Pes C1L3 and was posted to a driver. The other was Pes C9L3 and was a storeman. They still can relate to me how fun it was to tekan those NCC cadets.Originally posted by Joshua1975:i dun know the rest but i just dun know why, most of the Cadet 2LT or LTA who enlist later on, mostly or i should say all that i know ie my school/class mate had become driver or clerk. some had even went for the BAC during school time.
did NCC teach them how to keng?
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LOL! just imagine a CLT with airborne later get posted to a driver/clerk during NS, yes with a airborne badge on his uniform.Originally posted by Joshua1975:i dun know the rest but i just dun know why, most of the Cadet 2LT or LTA who enlist later on, mostly or i should say all that i know ie my school/class mate had become driver or clerk. some had even went for the BAC during school time.
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haha, is that even possible?? i think they sent the "gilat" NCC recruit which did well in BMT to some gilat place lah..Originally posted by Gordonator:LOL! just imagine a CLT with airborne later get posted to a driver/clerk during NS, yes with a airborne badge on his uniform. -
I've seen before a driver (CPL) with Basic Airborne Wings & Rigger Airborne wings n he wasn't from NCC
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he downgraded maybe?
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Normally the NCC guys don't wear their airborne badges..Originally posted by snk86:haha, is that even possible?? i think they sent the "gilat" NCC recruit which did well in BMT to some gilat place lah.. To maintain parity of sorts.. 
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Imagine a storeman who was from NCC formerly wearing the airborne badge..Originally posted by LazerLordz:Normally the NCC guys don't wear their airborne badges.. To maintain parity of sorts..
Just wondering why some schools dun have NCC land where tis cca is already the common?
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That is IF he performs...Things are very different in the SAF as they are in NCCOriginally posted by snk86:haha, is that even possible?? i think they sent the "gilat" NCC recruit which did well in BMT to some gilat place lah..
Medical Condition also plays an important part...There are PES C former CLTs.. -
well for your info, the principals also have a part in this, for schools, they have to fund the respective CCA's and there's this award thing that decides whether your NCC unit is either gold , silver or bronze, if it's always a bronze or nil award, the principal may decide to close it....Originally posted by gnoik:Imagine a storeman who was from NCC formerly wearing the airborne badge..
Just wondering why some schools dun have NCC land where tis cca is already the common? -
just now on the way home at potong pasir mrt, saw this ncc kid (couldnt see his rank, was nt wearing glasses) walking in smart four but boots not gartered. walking balong long....really tempted to f him nicely
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NCC see rank for what. even if he is SSG also can tell him off!Originally posted by Hellraiza:just now on the way home at potong pasir mrt, saw this ncc kid (couldnt see his rank, was nt wearing glasses) walking in smart four but boots not gartered. walking balong long....really tempted to f him nicely
which reminds me, today when on my way home, saw a bunch of NCC kids. their uniform all cannot make it lah. so oversized that one of them, his epaulettes are droping to his upper arm. the way he fold his smart 4 is also totally screwed up, he even lower one side of his sleeve down somemore. no respect at all to the uniform.
therefore i strongly suggest that NCC kids are not to be allowed to wear no.4 outside school. -
mabbe someone should seriously consider writing a letter either to ST forum or MOE regarding this.Originally posted by Gordonator:NCC see rank for what. even if he is SSG also can tell him off!
which reminds me, today when on my way home, saw a bunch of NCC kids. their uniform all cannot make it lah. so oversized that one of them, his epaulettes are droping to his upper arm. the way he fold his smart 4 is also totally screwed up, he even lower one side of his sleeve down somemore. no respect at all to the uniform.
therefore i strongly suggest that NCC kids are not to be allowed to wear no.4 outside school. -
when i in mrt or bus stops, also see army ppl.. boots not polished..laces loose, uniform running out of color, smoking.. dyed hair -
yep me too but i can;t stand them, they should treat the uniform with respect and i'm too a Cadet, i feel that if anyone should be caught not wearing the uniform properly should be given some sort of punishment.... but not the part about not being allowed to wear it out of school....Originally posted by wuming78:mabbe someone should seriously consider writing a letter either to ST forum or MOE regarding this. -
U a NCC cadet or officer cadet?Originally posted by wonderamazement:yep me too but i can;t stand them, they should treat the uniform with respect and i'm too a Cadet, i feel that if anyone should be caught not wearing the uniform properly should be given some sort of punishment.... but not the part about not being allowed to wear it out of school....
Heyys if they dun wear their uniform out of school, then what they wear? PE shirt with slacks? -
maybe they are NSmen that u saw.Originally posted by f50_vapor:when i in mrt or bus stops, also see army ppl.. boots not polished..laces loose, uniform running out of color, smoking.. dyed hair
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Can't really blame the NCC kids you know, they come into contact with NSFs more often than regulars. Very often, the standard they see can commonly be found on some of the more heck-care kind of NSF.
Despite the fact that many NS guys are equally guilty of slack uniform dressing, the poor NCC cadets are easier to scold (just kids what...). Like that a bit bad right?
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Actually i've heard that about 70% of NCC cadets end up being a Specialist or an officier.
And what's wrong with a driver having an airborne badge. It isn't physically difficult to get that badge nowadays. The difficulty is purely logistic - There are few places available for NSFs. -
cfm reservist lah. esp the "uniform running out of colour" bit.Originally posted by f50_vapor:when i in mrt or bus stops, also see army ppl.. boots not polished..laces loose, uniform running out of color, smoking.. dyed hair -
hm.. why the trouble of having enforcement and punishment, when it is much easier just to disallow wearing of the uniforms in public? really, who would go and "catch" these cadets, and go to the trouble of reporting to the school? if the NPCC cadets are disallowed from wearing their uniforms in public, why not the NCC cadets? any particular reason or requirement?Originally posted by wonderamazement:yep me too but i can;t stand them, they should treat the uniform with respect and i'm too a Cadet, i feel that if anyone should be caught not wearing the uniform properly should be given some sort of punishment.... but not the part about not being allowed to wear it out of school.... -
NPCC - frm policeOriginally posted by wuming78:hm.. why the trouble of having enforcement and punishment, when it is much easier just to disallow wearing of the uniforms in public? really, who would go and "catch" these cadets, and go to the trouble of reporting to the school? if the NPCC cadets are disallowed from wearing their uniforms in public, why not the NCC cadets? any particular reason or requirement?
police off duty.. nv wear uniform rite?
NCC- SAF
SAF off duty.. can wear no.4, no.3 rite?
anws cos i'm frm ncc myself, most of those who cant really put on a decent uniform are those sec1 kids who jus got their uniform, kinda like getting used to it..