Permanent Residents

• nympho

  9 Oct 04, 00:40

  Do Permanent Residents get the same chances to enter vocations in NS such OCS, SISPEC, Commando, Guards, NDU, Air Force? I notice, from observation, that PRs do not receive follow up letters to go for further check-ups after their medical exam
• Moxie

  9 Oct 04, 04:48

  Not sure what your 2nd sentence was alluding to, but for the earlier one - yes. I'm very acquainted with a couple of Indonesian-born/local PR's who served NS here, one in Arty (signaller) & another in Armour (tank gunner). There was another Arty colleague who was nicknamed "Taiwanese" & physically very fair, though I never did ask about his nationality.
  
  I think it helped a lot that these guys were schooled in the local education system prior as well. Technically, they can be called up by their birth country for military service too, as a Greek guy confirmed when he responded to a recent Today article about dual-NS.
• malcolmloke

  9 Oct 04, 07:17

  I don't think that PR status per se affects your chances of getting into certain vocations or not. It's more of the sercurity clearance level ( and other factors like education level and so on)? Of course one may argue that PRs would more likely have a not so high level of clearance? True to a certain extent but you do see PRs becoming officers? Just like the Greek Nationality mentioned by Moxie?
• chikopek

  9 Oct 04, 07:44

  You can even go OCS even if you are a PR needless to say about SISPEC
• Master -_-

  9 Oct 04, 09:08

  Dude! There are Italians, Bruneians, Thai, Taiwanese, Indonesians and Swedish PRs in OCS!!!!!!!!
• LazerLordz

  9 Oct 04, 09:18

  Originally posted by malcolmloke:

  I don't think that PR status per se affects your chances of getting into certain vocations or not. It's more of the sercurity clearance level ( and other factors like education level and so on)? Of course one may argue that PRs would more likely have a not so high level of clearance? True to a certain extent but you do see PRs becoming officers? Just like the Greek Nationality mentioned by Moxie?

  My BMTC Coy 2IC was Taiwanese.
• Gordonator

  9 Oct 04, 13:35

  Originally posted by Master -_-:

  Dude! There are Italians, Bruneians, Thai, Taiwanese, Indonesians and Swedish PRs in OCS!!!!!!!!

  but not malaysian.
• erijazz

  9 Oct 04, 13:39

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  but not malaysian.

  who told you that
  
  I had a fren who is a PR from malaysia and currently serving his NS as a officer
• Ponders

  9 Oct 04, 21:41

  what i observed is this...
  
  PRs and citizens stand equal chance in going to any UNIT if that PR has no record of staying overseas after obtaining his/her PR.
  
  But PRs who has stayed significant number of years overseas with questionable or unjustifiable purpose...... tend not to go very far.
  
  
• Gordonator

  9 Oct 04, 22:44

  Originally posted by erijazz:

  who told you that
  
  I had a fren who is a PR from malaysia and currently serving his NS as a officer

  he must be very outstanding then.