Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) posted a trailer of their YouTube series Into The Fray: The Making of a Female Soldier onto their Facebook page.
They captioned their post:
“What’s women’s BMT like? Watch the real deal here! 💪🏻👩 If you missed our “Into the Fray: The Making of a Female Soldier” web series back in the day, catch the action here.”
And it appears as though the MINDEF’s post aims at providing Singaporeans a proper idea of what girls in the army actually go through.
The MINDEF series was released back in 2015 and follows the journey of 5 female recruits as they go through Basic Military Training.
It showcases their experiences and each episode is about less than 10 minutes long, culminating in their Passing Out Parade.
Ah Girls Go Army
This comes hot on the heels of Jack Neo’s much maligned Ah Girl Go Army movie that was released earlier this week, with many denouncing it as 2 hours of advertisement and movie cliches.
Straits Times film correspondent John Lui rated the movie 2/5 and called it “as funny as a positive Covid test,” and that it “takes effort to be this terrible”.
I personally gave it 5/5 because the movie was so terribly bad that it’s good, and that takes some remarkable talent and doing.
One movie critic (me) even said:
“My Grandfather smoked his whole life.
I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, “If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.”
Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer.
It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- ‘Don’t ever smoke. Please don’t put your family through what your Grandfather put us through.”
I agreed. All through my adulthood, I have never touched a cigarette.
I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because the movie gave me cancer anyway.”