National service is a mandatory government program that involves all males in Singapore between the ages of 18 and late 20s. It was created by Goh Keng Swee to strengthen Singapore's military and economy. People who enter national service go through fitness checkups and tests to determine their training category before beginning their one year of service.

1. What is National service? National service is a common name for mandatory government service programmes.

2. Contents Who were involved in National Service?............................................ 1 Who created National Service?............................................................2 Why National Service?............................................................................3 How do people thing of NS?..................................................................4 What did the people do before entering NS?...................................5

3. Who were involved in National Service? National Service includes all male that have turn 18 to join. Also, they will join National Service for a year. Usually, some are in National Service between their 18 and late 20. 1

4. Who created National Service? The one who created National service is GohKengSwee. 2

5. Why National service? Because GohKengSwee wanted to strengthened Singapore Military and domestics. 5

6. How do people think of NS? One of the people that go through NS said that National Service can be one of the most enjoyable thing in his life and it is once in a lifetime. Some said that Ns is not good because it is extremely tough. 6

7. What did the people do before entering NS? They went for fitness check-up to see whether which type of category should they enter. They must cut their hairs and register their name. They also need to do a particular test to see of they need to add a few months of training or reduce some months of training. 7