hi to ggk and foxpaun
dear foxpaun,
i been following this thread for years but never written any comment before. so im here to share something on what you guys are discussing about NON-MALAY in forces issue. before that, im a non-bumi serving in armed force as an officer. trained in western country as cadet. i joined the service at young age, now im 24 yrs old.
i don't know much about the cadet police stuffs…well i can tell you about wataniah part. In short word, WATANIAH is a POLITICAL medium. (not the UMNO, PAKATAN politic) political within the forces. They have quota in wataniah (army), PSSTLDM (navy), PSSTUDM (air force). lets call them reserve forces, these reserve force will be recruited according to the quota(they will say there are no quota but there are!)
All the tri-service will only recruit you if you have something "extra" eg: sportsmans, dancers, singers(for god sake, this is real).
let me give you an example
Many of you know Nur Suryani, national shooter.(pls google of u don't know) she is a Lt in TLDM and she is a regular personnel (not the reserve forces type). She commissioned last year as sub-Lt and to surprise she was under medical(cannot run,do hard work but she goes for shooting training almost everyday..funny kan?) the whole year while she was trainee, eventually she commissioned as officer in ROYAL MALAYSIAN NAVY. WHY? because the navy needs her, she can make the navy proud when she win medals. so the reserve forces is one of the way to recruit personnel with something "extra" -there are A LOT them.
hope you understand, foxpaun. (if you think this is unfair, i cant do much because THIS IS MALAYSIA)
as akmal_3110 said, i agree, malaysia's systems are FULL of flaws. so don't be surprised. keep trying mate!
dear ggk,
since when la army (i take it as armed forces) will look after your family, seriously they DONT dude.
"Thats a lie. because the armed forces personel buys house using the military housing scheme which are not the same with the civilian." <--GGK said this
ggk, please enlighten me on MILITARY HOUSING SCHEME, im in process of buying house! tak wujud rase nyer
MONEY or COUNTRY FIRST? join the forces and you will get to know how many of them going after money
foxpaun, you want serve in NAVY as PSSTLDM? PM me