Originally posted by Gordonator:
i heard that soldiers in the past was issued red no.4 name tags if they are hokkien soldiers, orange name tags if they are chinese educated and green name tag if they are english educated.
any truth to that? perhaps anybody's father who have RODed can help?
Yupp. ... correct. But the name tag was not to be worn with the no. 4, but rather with the old no. 3 (Temasek green). This was the old no. 3 where you can wear your formation badges (infantry... armour.. etc) and there were brass badges on the collar etc etc.
The name tag was a green plastic badge with your surname engraved in white on it. On one side of the badge there were colour bars. If it was orange, it meant that your 2nd language was mandarin. I can't remember what colour were for the other languages.
The no. 4 name badge was just a green velcro strip with your name in embroidered black, same as today.