The latest comes on Thursday when a reader of the popular Singapore citizen journalism website Stomp sent a picture of a serviceman in army uniform, making an older man - apparently his father - carry his backpack. -- PHOTO: STOMP
THE carrying of backpacks for national servicemen continues to make the news among Singaporeans.
The latest comes on Thursday when a reader of the popular Singapore citizen journalism website Stomp sent a picture of a serviceman in army uniform, making an older man - apparently his father - carry his backpack.
The reader - Danny - told Stomp: 'At about 3pm yesterday (Wednesday), as my friends and I were going to Northpoint in Yishun for lunch, I saw yet another army boy making his father carrying his bag for him.
'This is definitely unacceptable!'
In March, a reader had sent to Stomp, a picture of a national serviceman making his maid carry his army backpack.
It sparked a national uproar and the Ministry of Defence counselled him after he had identified himself to his commander. The photograph made its rounds on the Internet and generated much debate about whether Generation Y soldiers in Singapore are too 'soft' and 'spoilt'.
In this latest case, should the parent or older person share the blame too?
