what is s1, s2, s3, s4, s5, s6...??

• Stooky

  9 Jun 06, 23:21

  i always heard people in the army say one... whats the meaning ha?? is it some position or what? why must they call it s1, s2....??
  
  i m so noob...
• Patrik

  9 Jun 06, 23:23

  Manpower.....Intelligence.....
• mhcampboy

  9 Jun 06, 23:23

  s1= manpower
  s2=intelligence
  s3=operations
  s4=logs/tpts
  
  Normally this is battallion level. if division or mindef...S will be replace by G eg G1 G2 G3 etc etc....
  
  battallion will stop till 4. but army level....it will continue...
  
  G5= planning
  G6=training
  
  its just departments. and the head of the department is customary called s1, s2, s3 etc etc etc....
• Stooky

  9 Jun 06, 23:26

  still dun understand leh... is it a sub-unit of a battalion or what?
  
  what does the S stands for?
  
  then is S1 an office or a group of personnels? is it NSFs or regulars?
  
  
• mhcampboy

  9 Jun 06, 23:28

  Originally posted by Stooky:

  still dun understand leh... is it a sub-unit of a battalion or what?
  
  what does the S stands for?
  
  then is S1 an office or a group of personnels? is it NSFs or regulars?
  
  

  the head will be called S1. on the whole its S1 branch. consists of regulars...mainly the chief clerks...and also nsf's....normal clerks. the S1 is a regular of cos...
• martin_lim85

  9 Jun 06, 23:29

  Originally posted by Stooky:

  still dun understand leh... is it a sub-unit of a battalion or what?
  
  what does the S stands for?
  
  then is S1 an office or a group of personnels? is it NSFs or regulars?
  
  

  S1 is usually regulars. those S1234 etc is appointment that handles different thing aka cabinet
• f50_vapor

  9 Jun 06, 23:30

  i refer to my recruit's handbook..
  
  it says S1 - Staff Officer (1) - Manpower
• dragg

  9 Jun 06, 23:31

  S stands for staff.
  
  
• Gordonator

  10 Jun 06, 00:02

  there's no S5 and S6 lah.
• saline

  10 Jun 06, 00:06

  don't worry, when u are in the army liao, confirm u'll know wat it all means.
• kiddyduck

  10 Jun 06, 22:25

  LOL still got others leh...
  
  All the 2IC of the Sx... called dy
  
  that means
  
  Dy S1: Asst of S1...
  
  btw Dy stands for??
• dork3d

  10 Jun 06, 22:26

  Originally posted by kiddyduck:

  LOL still got others leh...
  
  All the 2IC of the Sx... called dy
  
  that means
  
  Dy S1: Asst of S1...
  
  btw Dy stands for??

  Dy = Deputy
• saline

  10 Jun 06, 22:27

  Deputy loh
• Icemoon

  11 Jun 06, 00:01

  Originally posted by dragg:

  S stands for staff.
  
  

  and the officers who man them are staff officers.
  
  so officers who man the G branches are generals?
• CKtalon

  11 Jun 06, 10:56

  Originally posted by Icemoon:

  and the officers who man them are staff officers.
  
  so officers who man the G branches are generals?

  If I'm not wrong the head of G branches are the ACGS (xxx) where xxx can be logistics, manpower, planning, etc
  then the head of these ACGS (Assistant Chief of General Staff) is the CGS
  CGS estab rank is MG I think..ACGS usually is a COL or BG..
  
  Am I right?
• mhcampboy

  11 Jun 06, 11:06

  Originally posted by CKtalon:

  If I'm not wrong the head of G branches are the ACGS (xxx) where xxx can be logistics, manpower, planning, etc
  then the head of these ACGS (Assistant Chief of General Staff) is the CGS
  CGS estab rank is MG I think..ACGS usually is a COL or BG..
  
  Am I right?

  Thats right totally.
• pwnz0r

  12 Jun 06, 10:50

  Originally posted by Icemoon:

  and the officers who man them are staff officers.
  
  so officers who man the G branches are generals?

  Typically known as General Staff. Not generals.
• SBS9828X

  12 Jun 06, 11:04

  nikon cameras
  
  oh no im gonna be shot