Friday, November 04, 2005
A Tale of NSFs, NSMen and Regular Service Personnel (Part I)
This is in 2 parts cos Blogger has a word limit per post....
This may seem frivolous to 99.99% of the people reading this. That is, granted that there ARE indeed people reading this.
I am just fed up with organisations and websites inaccurately listing NSF as Nsmen. Or for that matter, just listing all military personnel as NSMen. Not sure what I am talking about? Well, if you go to some websites which sell stuff eligible for concessions, they will usually have concessions for NSF. However, for some reason, they like to list it as NSMen. Why would NSMen need such concessions? Quite a number of them draw pay in the 5 figure and above area. And most of the Singaporean male population between the age of 18 and 45 (iirc) is in the NSMen category. So gals, better get your hubby to go buy that ticket with his 11B.
If the corporation, organisation does not even bother to put this well known and easily accessible information accurately... what else are they good for?
For those who do not have an insight as to what I am talking about..
NSF = National Service Full Time. This means the guys being enlisted for 2 years in their life. Those who always talk about ORD.
NSMen = National Servicemen. This means the guys who have ALREADY ORD'ed. Holds a full time job. Sometimes this full time job is so well paying, they can claim up to the full amount allowed under the ICT payments (Money which SAF pays to make up for their pay). Used to be called Reservists.
Regular Service Personnel (Regulars) = The poor sad blokes working in the SAF that everyone think is rich. Don't ask me why. Everyone thinks Regulars have endless supply of money.
