All male Singaporean citizens who have reached the age of 18 are required to enrol in the military.
They serve a two-year or one-year-ten-month period as Full Time National Servicemen (NSFs), either in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Singapore Police Force (SPF), or the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF).
The peaceful, mostly Buddhist nation has decided to make it mandatory. There is a relatively huge amount of wealth that has to be protected, you know.
I saw 5 heavily armed Singaporean men walking in the down town city area. They were carrying automatic rifles, amongst the metropolitan citizens. An unusual sight for an American.
Religion in Singapore:
| Buddhism | 33.3% | |||
| Christianity | 18.3% | |||
| No religion | 17.0% | |||
| Islam | 14.7% | |||
| Taoism | 10.9% | |||
| Hinduism | 5.1% | |||
| Others | 0.7% | |||
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