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1. Stacking all your offs and leaves in hopes of getting one big fat holiday before ORD
2. Realising your CSM/OC doesn’t let you clear them at all
3. Resorts to using wisdom teeth as excuse to get the big fat holiday before ORD
4. Not Kiwi-ing your boots
5. When caught not Kiwi-ing your boots, mentions that you are a combatant
6. Or mentioning that you are a noncombatant if you are not one.
7. Stealing things from the expendable stores
8. Asking your CQ to dabao for you from camp during outfield
9. Asking your CQ to secretly bring icebox for you during outfield (yes it is common)
10. Storing can drinks in place of your magazines in your ilbv magazine pouches
11. Commanders resting in the restroom/annex room or whatever you call it during office hours
12. Commanders playing Xbox/PS4 in the restroom/annex room during office hours
13. Gets one-weekend duty and complain you have always been doing weekend duties
14. Going to the mess/tuck shop to buy fried food every single day when you have the cookhouse
15. And then spending the rest of your money going to Zouk and opening tables
16. Having only 50 cents in your bank account 2 days after payday
17. Asking your superiors for nights out every single day
18. Commander and men alike man-mode during outfield
19. Using army lingo around girls, turning them off
20. Talk endlessly about how much tougher your outfield was as compared to your friends
21. Compare which company is more lepak/xiong than the other
22. Talk about Army nonstop even till uni/work when you are in a group of serviceman and girls
23. Giving that unspoken acknowledgement to another guy if he’s wearing your formation shirt
24. Bringing in loads of coins/asking for free coins to buy drinks from vending machines
25. Scheduling your Medical Appointments (MAs) on a Friday afternoon
26. Wearing the same pair of socks for the whole week because “you didn’t sweat much” and then get foot rot.
27. Losing your personal equipment but don’t sound off until you are 100% completely sure it is lost and irretrievable because you are too late now
28. Testing how long you can not shave until your CSM says something
29. Testing how long your hair can grow until you sign 3
30. Commanders stalking your men’s girlfriends with other commanders
31. Saying OOC SUA or anything similar
32. Saying SIGN ON SUA or anything similar
33. Complaining how much regulars are paid and how much lesser they do as compared to you (seriously if you envy them, join them. Grow up.)
34. When booking in late, turn on all the lights in the bunk and wake everyone up
35. Using black tape to solve all your problems in life
36. Sergeants saying that they do more than officers (Salt is there, welcome to the dead sea)
37. Officers saying that they do more than Sergeants
38. Men saying that they do more than everyone else
39. Officers and Sergeants saying man doesn’t do anything
40. Complain and Compare
41. Commanders leopard crawling into men’s bunk to catch people not sleeping
42. Ogling over that one female regular in your unit
43. Watching men’s IPPT drop from 85 to 70 points when they are being watched by commanders
44. Shitting in the toilet right before stand by area inspections
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45. Never volunteers to clean the toilet
46. Checking clear during bookout
47. Checking clear during nights out
48. Firmly believe that area cleaning will help us better serve our nation
49. Code black but carries on with training with “controlled rest.”
50. Hoping outfield gets cut short by a day or two
51. Hoping outfield will get cut short because it’s raining and conducting says carry on or “cat 1 status cleared.” Life gets shit from that point onwards.
52. Being afraid of random phone checks for restricted/prohibited content
53. Being afraid of random urine tests
54. Telling your friend to draw your arms for you (OOC sua)
55. Be the first one to shower no matter what
56. Be the first one to send your arms
57. Always failing the inspection of clean arms before sending arms
58. Spraying Febreeze onto your smelly uniforms (Stop following last-minute guides, Febreeze never mixes well with sweat)
59. Getting religious when you feel a presence lurking around you
60. Getting religious when you are praying for good 3G data connection
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61. Complaining about the new rise in legal age to smoke
62. Able to open a pharmacy with the number of ointments and creams you have
63. Interacting with your girlfriend much more than your family/friends during bookout
64. Excessive clubbing after you lost your girlfriend
65. Taking in camp photos and posting it on Instagram
66. Taking in camp pictures and posting on Snapchat
67. Agreed to help your friend out but stirs shit about him after that anyway
68. Buying that 10 years SAFRA membership and realised you have zero use for it
69. And then try to sell that SAFRA reward item (99% of the time a watch) on Carousell
72. Throwing all your food in the bunk’s thrash
73. Playing stacking games with your trash when no one wants to take out the trash
74. Being a loner in your bunk
75. Disturbing everyone in the bunk with your music
76. Using the cyber pioneer magazine for other purposes
77. Reading the cyber pioneer magazine
78. Sucking up to your superiors
79. Fighting for that one bed with a personal fan & power point
80. Selling yourself for weekend duties
81. Selling yourself for public holiday duties (3 times the market rate on CNY?)
82. Holding your admin bottle against your chest when reciting the 8 core values
83. Wearing double socks for route march
84. Wearing your duty tag incorrectly (not strapped around your arm) because it’s uncomfortable
85. Not replacing or sewing up that no. 4 pants with holes exposing your underwear
86. Claiming that pants are your outfield no.4, and mention again that you are a combatant
87. Falling and getting yourself into mud due to your clumsiness, mentions again you are a combatant anyway
88. Crying on your virgin outfield experience (BMT) when your officer gives you a motivational speech and realise what a joke you were
89. Being patriotic and believe we are the No.1 army in Asia and possibly the world
90. Realising that you are not even close to being the No. 1 Army
91. Believing that the military tests and portfolio is vital for your future
92. Camo on but not covering your ears, eyes, neck, etc.
93. Having a lousy camo with symbols and numbers on your face instead of stripes (you will be surprised some units want numbers on their faces instead)
94. Camo on but somehow quickly camo off magically. Claims that you sweat a lot
95. Commanders getting close with their men and suddenly draws the professional line and behave awkwardly around it
96. Can’t stop yourself from using excessive strong language around civilians because of army
97. Regulars who still think they are the kings when in the civilian world, specifically uncles who are already retired
98. Still telling exaggerated army stories to your grandchildren to show off
99. Stealing duty’s personnel night snack
100. Watching movies whole day while doing duty
101. Ordering food in during weekend/ public holiday duty
Bonus:
102. Trying your luck not to get caught sleeping in until noon time… or even later.
103. Buying insurance from chiobu agents
Read More: My Life as an NSF Clerk for 2 Years
That’s all for now again. Let’s us know more bad habits you guys have during NS (MINDEF watching tho) in the comments section! Seriously, give us a page like if you enjoyed it!
