'When you allow this to happen in national service (have recruits getting their maids to carry their rucksacks or Bangladeshi workers doing area cleaning) you normalize the idea that you are too good for certain things, and certain entitlement attitudes...
"When you allow this to happen in national service you normalize the idea that you are too good for certain things, and certain entitlement attitudes are normalized." — Tang Li, OPINION
While I generally try to avoid getting into the “It was tougher” in my day line when it comes to national service, I did tell him that there was a time when raking leaves was considered “rest” for soldiers in BMT. His immediate reaction was, “Yes, if those boys raked the leaves, they will look at Bangladeshi workers in a different way.”
Technology in the military, like elsewhere, is supposed to give you more bang for your buck. There is something that shouldn’t change. Soldiers, for example, need to be physically more resilient than your average civilian, even if the technology the soldiers of today allows them to do more damage with a single shot than their predecessors could.
This caused an uproar, and the Ministry of Defense had to come out and say that it had counselled the young man. However, while many old folks like me had many grumbles about it, some thought differently and didn’t see what the issue was. I’ve even found a note written in 2017 telling us not to be mean to our boys in green:While I believe soldiers should be respected for their work, the writer misses the point. National Service is the first time that many of us think of us.
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