Regarding SISPEC,44th BSLC: Any help is much appreciated :D
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I think highly you'll get into armour.
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Arty is not the slackest..... I was an Arty spec who ORDed 10 months ago... Jus for ur information:
1. One arty round is 40kg which u hae to carry.
2. Arty deals with huge weapons...
3. U will go overseas alot.. I went overseas every 2 months... Sep05: Thailand, Nov 05: Wallaby; Feb 06: India; April 06: Taiwan; August 06: ORD.
4. High chance of doing NDp cos not many arty units in singapore... The 21 Gun salute is done by Arty. But its a honour. I did it.
5. U might get arrowed for a militar funeral cos the gun carriage is the property of artillery...
6. In a real way, low chance of dying cos u are far away but the comrades at the front are dependent on your fire power for their safety. -
all got risk, one is that the round explode also can. ect.Originally posted by simple_man:Arty is not the slackest..... I was an Arty spec who ORDed 10 months ago... Jus for ur information:
1. One arty round is 40kg which u hae to carry.
2. Arty deals with huge weapons...
3. U will go overseas alot.. I went overseas every 2 months... Sep05: Thailand, Nov 05: Wallaby; Feb 06: India; April 06: Taiwan; August 06: ORD.
4. High chance of doing NDp cos not many arty units in singapore... The 21 Gun salute is done by Arty. But its a honour. I did it.
5. U might get arrowed for a militar funeral cos the gun carriage is the property of artillery...
6. In a real way, low chance of dying cos u are far away but the comrades at the front are dependent on your fire power for their safety. -
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Good luck with getting into Arty if you kena BSLC. It's a good life, when compared to SIR or SAR. Arty is supposed to be for those with better mathematical aptitude, but IMO not so much with Arty NCOs (now called Gunnery Specs or something) & gunners. You won't need to carry signal set & follow infantry either. Foremost, it's "zay chia" (sit vehicle) all the way &, while the maintainence part is siong, it's only super-siong if you kena 21 SA (tracked-based, not wheel-based vehicles).
21 SA is traditionally the most SAR-like within the formation, even during my time. It's the only Arty fireable in Singapore, for a start, so there was usually more internal field exercises & then supporting infantry ones on live-firings during weekends.
If you kena a 155mm unit instead, it's a DIV-level weapon & so, technically-speaking, some 20km from the frontline (if you're that "chicken") but can otherwise train in the most-desirable overseas destination (Taiwan) during both NS & reservist.
Khatib Camp is quite schizo when compared to the individual camps, believe me. Plenty of wayang on the SOA/HQ SA side, esp. when OCS cadets are in-course (marching from point to point). It was fun to see ARTC being transferred there to site in the opposing block, though, always prompting an angry Encik marching across the car park screaming at a bo-chap/bemused reservist ~lol~ 23SA & 24SA (a radar-tracking unit) are also long-term residents. A SADA unit & the old SAF Boys' school used to too during my time, so you can imagine how regimentated the camp used to be. Now, with FCC also there to conduct RT for reservists, the stadium looked like East Coast Park from every late afternoon onwards!
But travel can be quite lechey. There's a side gate that leads to Khatib MRT but it's not always open & even then available sometimes only to authorized personnel (no reservists or RT personnel). Accessing the main gate entails travelling either a long trip down Sembawang Road (after passing a number of other camps; imagine the peak-hour commutes) or a surprisingly-long (15-20 min) bus transfer from nearby Yishun MRT. Not easy to grab a cab either. -
Not bad, at least better than having an mg pintle land on your foot.Originally posted by kenn3th:all got risk, one is that the round explode also can. ect. -
where's combat engr?
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being medic spec not tat bad...good for me..
now 44?my time 36th...
medic..u learn alot...and i mean alot..
u hold the responsibility of other people's lives...
and also hold the burden of "conventional bad attitude and assumptions" towards medics -
I'm from 43rd BSLC batch.
The vocations preferred my most of my platoon mates seem to be medical specs, admin specs and logistic specs.
However, if you have achieved Silver in your IPPT and passed your SOC, it is highly unlikely that you will be posetd to those vocations. Although, SAF is always full of surprises.
The most xiong companies in SISPEC are Bravo, Charlie and Delta.
Alpha, Echo and Juliet are extremely slack.
Hotel tries to immediate the "xiong" companies but in comparison to the real deals, the trainings / punishments here are quite manageable.
The slackest vocation, however, seems to be a training spec at a reservist camp. I'm currently at Clementi Camp HQ 2 PDF, and since it is a stay out reservist unit, you are not required to do much here.
Only the luckiest ones that have passed through BSLC and ASLC end up here though. haha -
gone are the days when Echo was a siong company.
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Post edited because:
"You are not supposed to say anything negative about the SAF."
"Do you know MSD read blogs and forums? You can get charged!"
"You still can go DB 6 months after ORD" (I'm still long way to ORD
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In short, i'm silenced.
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I was a spec that orded from ajax.... Btw, u must know that the spec and man from the other 2 batteries will only come in when u are about to ord... so u will be maintaining the gun of ajax, blazer and cavalier... loLz...
Count urself lucky u in cavalier with Anthony as ur bsm.... Lucky u never kena ajax with vincet as ur bsm. He is a mean ass... i a sure u have heard or experience it by now...
enjoy maintaining the ssph.... u will never have a free day.... -
foxtrot too....Originally posted by sir sickolot II:gone are the days when Echo was a siong company.
see the first letter F in posting order after 32km route march was a damn downer...hahahahahha...those were the days
but sispec in laba like no kick......
in tekong..like...."Welcome to the Jungle"...ala Guns N Roses..
"soldier....y never greet your sergeant...?"
turns around..
"But sir...never saw him coming out of the corner.."
"You think Formula 1 issit?...Knock it down 30...."
"yes sir.."
"leg on top of that ledge thankiu..."
"wah sian..."
after do 30...
"permission to recover sergeant"..
"wah...magnificient...ask u do 30 oni...call me sergeant....ask u do 30 more...call me private arh?"
"NO SIR!!!PERMISSION to recover SIR!!"..
"very good....tell the platoon to cancel games....we going for a little run later..."
"wah sian...."
"i like ure wah sian.....sign of hope in this batch..." -
Echo was relaxed during my time though...... 11th bslc/aslc. our neighbour foxtrot wasnt so.
Oh and you forgot to put NCC as one of the vocations you can be sent to. -
Admin spec no need to go thru SISPEC but only Basic Admin Supervisor course which is meant for PES C clerk.Originally posted by goldencactus:I'm from 43rd BSLC batch.
The vocations preferred my most of my platoon mates seem to be medical specs, admin specs and logistic specs.
However, if you have achieved Silver in your IPPT and passed your SOC, it is highly unlikely that you will be posetd to those vocations. Although, SAF is always full of surprises.
The most xiong companies in SISPEC are Bravo, Charlie and Delta.
Alpha, Echo and Juliet are extremely slack.
Hotel tries to immediate the "xiong" companies but in comparison to the real deals, the trainings / punishments here are quite manageable.
The slackest vocation, however, seems to be a training spec at a reservist camp. I'm currently at Clementi Camp HQ 2 PDF, and since it is a stay out reservist unit, you are not required to do much here.
Only the luckiest ones that have passed through BSLC and ASLC end up here though. haha -
true..
there are admin specs in my camp who never went through SISPEC..
but there are those lucky ones that end up in admin vocations after surviving through BSLC / ASLC. -
I must repeat this point again.
SISPEC is only meant for Infantry Specialists. -
Originally posted by LazerLordz:I must repeat this point again.
SISPEC is only meant for Infantry Specialists. -
SISPEC bslc for everyone..Originally posted by LazerLordz:I must repeat this point again.
SISPEC is only meant for Infantry Specialists.
aslc for guards and infantry specialist...
the rest who pass out from bslc carry on with other vocation and units and get their 3SG rank through courses within their units -
Okay, my mistake.Originally posted by R3SsH|n:SISPEC bslc for everyone..
aslc for guards and infantry specialist...
the rest who pass out from bslc carry on with other vocation and units and get their 3SG rank through courses within their units
I was trying to say that SISPEC is mainly for combat specialists.