Territorial Army unit for Malaysian Army.

Reservists who sign up will have basic training for 3 months, after that spend 1 weekend each month for training with annual military exercises every year. Period of service contract is 5 years.

Preferable by many coz service term contract is short and terms of service not so strict like regular army units. Total have around 40,000 reservists.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Mar 9 2017, 04:08 PM

cannot also.

Not so much. Around RM100 per weekend for enlisted men and RM 170 for officers. That means a month la, since training is one weekend per month.

But each year got one-month long exercises have different allowance, cannot remember how much.

Seriously, despite what all the doom-sayers say, all races are welcome to join. Ini bumi kita mah.

That why I said more preferable. Minimal military lifestyle and hardship, yet the allowance is decent and the experience is probably priceless.

They also have their own paratrooper/airborne unit, 501th Para regiment, if u are of the more adventurous types.

Outside of basic training probably not la. You only meet up a weekend every month only also, tak sempat nak hazing2 ni.

Basic training probably have some hazing, but all new recruits also kena la one way or another.

Honestly, dunno. Although like all airborne troops there is obviously have special bouns, flight pay and jump pay, but I'm not sure how much.

Askar Wataniah used to have full-time units (the 300 series regiments), but now they were disbanded and reorganized into the Border Regiments.

Also, you could probably add up the PDRM paramilitary units into the overall Malaysian defensive structure. They have quite substantial number (around +60,000) but they are more for specialized COIN-type operations instead of conventional warfare. For example, during the recent Lahad Datu operations, it was the PDRM paramilitary units that spearheaded the operations, not the Army.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Mar 9 2017, 05:02 PM

If I remember correctly, by law your boss must give cuti tanpa rekod for the basic training and annual exercise.

Later get after enlisted u try go to office wear army uniform, show off to office mates, say to them dun mess with u. Kasi diorang kagum sikit.

During training or after enlistment? if after enlistment cannot, your obligation contract period is 5 years. If u don't attend monthly training u can be found as AWOL or even charged as a deserter and be court-martialed. :sad:

Haha nice try but this isn't a civil contract. You sign,they own your ass.

Wash out la.Still can.Once u sign service contract cannot.

Just 1 weekend (2 days) a month some more, plus 30 days for annual exercise. So if by some miracle u survived the 30-day Wataniah basic training, your military life only amounts to around 50+ days a year.

If like that oso cannot, confirm the military lifestyle not for you la.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Mar 9 2017, 08:29 PM

Not necessarily. If nothing else this only ends IS's proto-state experiment. Even if the caliphate collapses, IS will only revert to what they were before : a richly funded stateless terror group. They still have the money, resources, supporters and fanatical adherents to keep going for a looongg time.

That's a whole new ball game. As the footsoldiers disperse back to their own countries or into exile they'll take their doctrines with them and spread them even further. At least in syria and iraq they were going nowhere.

That is true,but they need a lot of money mostly to maintain the civil service and bureaucracy of the caliphate. For small scale insugency they don't need as much. Plus most 'lone wolf' attacks overseas do so under invidual initiative and cost.

Even al-qaeda with smaller funding, more conservative doctrine and less military expertise can still be a major problem, if IS with their still large funding, aggressive philosophy, fanatical followers and far more military expertise change their strategy to disband the caliphate and disperse underground, they'll be far more dangerous.

Agreed. I believe RAW numbers should at least be at par with regular units.

Also, is it really that advantageous to have long service terms, up to 20+ years? IMHO ATM should reduce fixed service terms to around 10 years, but at the same time make easier to extend service contract. I think that period is enough to train and professionalize the enlisted men and junior officers, but still can keep the military age average down (war is a young man's game) and at the same time, keep the really old-timer professional hands if you need them. These types of people will usually re-enlist when they can anyway.

U la GTFO. Use malaysian forum for discussing SAF stuff? Make one urself la, why tumpang here?

If post general stuff about SAF I think we can all appreciate, but wanna discuss detailed stuff among singaporeans (ranks, pipings, patches WTF?) definitely this is not the place.

This is literally an M16A2. Complete with fixed carry handle.