Any Singaporean guy that read this title would have understood what I meant. Every Singaporean male has to go through 2 years of national service in the Singapore armed forces as a soldier. Judging from his leadership skills and fitness they are placed in different units. Some of these guy would have enjoyed their NS life. But for many it is 2 years of their time wasted.
I have heard many prospective about NS, but today’s topic is not about weather national service was a waste of time or not. It is why Singaporean males FEEL that their time was wasted.
Firstly is a matter of comparison, when they finally finish their National service and look into going to university their female counterparts would have already finished their degree. They would already be in the workforce by then.
To add things worst there are many foreigners who would be fighting for their position to the university. If they are lucky they would have got a place in the local University, if their grades aren’t that top notch they would have to settle for a University overseas, like me. For some of my buddies in NS that 2 years totally took away the study intention they had.
To me education comes in a feat. It is not easy to pause it and resume it later like a DVD. Once the flow is gone it is hard to get back to studying. Because of that some of the guys who go to university after NS fell behind, because they have lost touch with their study method.
What is my solution?
If our girls also have to do national service it would even us out. I am not expecting them to join the army. There are other ways that they can offer their help. One way is in the nursing industry in Singapore or in the community service industry.
We read the news about Singaporean hospitals lacking nurses and nurses have to come from Philippines and Indonesia. Why don’t we put our women to the job? One year to train them and one year of service. They would be paid allowances of like $500 per month, approximately the pay of national service men.
Due to the low pay for the nurses the medical expanse would decrease. This national service nurses can work in our poly clinics. Instead of making out citizens pay the small amount for medical help. We can make it totally free!
This will reduce the medical expense for Singaporeans
This is just a suggestion. Hitting 2 birds with one stone
Amen, Vasanthan. If the Singapore government thinks their situation is so desperate that they should resort to involuntary service for two years (which is incredibly long), then I don't see why women should be excluded.
ReplyDeleteI feel Singapore's need for NS is completely unjust. Israel and South Korea too have national service exceeding 2 years, but I fully understand that because both countries have been at war with their neighbours for more than half a century. What does Singapore have that justifies NS for two long years? Do they really have a problem with Malaysia and Indonesia?
I really envy women living in Singapore as they have the freedom and enjoyment of the country, completely uninterrupted by the government.
Didn't you study history? It is because we singaporeans doesn't have much army forces, that's why the british have to protect us with theirs and that's also why we fall to the japanese because the british soldiers' morality is low as they aren't protecting their own country. So the guys have NS just in case, but I also agree that females should join the NS to increase the manpower.
DeleteVasanthan, i agree with your views that women should also serve the nation. It is not only "even out the playing field" between males and females in the Singapore, it is also potentially beneficial for the manpower allocation for "public service".
ReplyDeleteIf females could be enlisted, we would have more manpower. With a larger number, there will be bound to more fit people as well as not so fit people. So we would then have more combatants and as well as more service personnels. This may increase the quality of service (combat, administrative, nursing, etc) of the public services.
There could be a lot of potent problems too. Assuming that most of the female enlistees are to serve in public services males are not already serving, that is to say that females will not serve in army, navy, airforce, scdf, spf unless voluntarily. There would still be the problem of building the infrastructure for cater to the female serviceman welfare and training. Service laws may also have to be re-drafted.
But i think that this is a worthy price for equality. The problem lies with the amount of concern and political will power expended on this issue.
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