The Situational Test (Sitest), used for decades during Basic Military Training (BMT) to identify recruits for command or leadership posts, has become tougher.
Recruits are now scored on how they plan battle manoeuvres based on simulated combat missions within a tight timeframe - and the test is now incorporated within their field camps.
This means recruits will undergo the Sitest in the same week that they rough it out away from their bunks at Pulau Tekong's BMT Centre, digging trenches, practising battle manoeuvres and shooting at simulated targets.
So, even as they fight off fatigue, dust, heat and the pressures of a 'battlefield', they will have to show that they can plan a successful day or night 'mission' that may require digging trenches and taking up sound battle positions to overcome the 'enemy'.
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