Today is SAF Day.

Or NS Recognition Day – depending on whether you’re an NSman, NSF, or Regular.

To the other members of the public, you’re probably more aware of it this year thanks to the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf’s epic fail when they used an image of a People’s Liberation Army Navy soldier instead of one of our finest from the Republic of Singapore Navy.

Yeah… You gotta see it to believe it.

Notice the COMPLETELY different uniform, camo AND rifle?

And seriously, no encik is going to allow his men to get away with a stray string trailing out of his jockey cap…

I’ve lost count of how many “Whole lot touch that tree and come back” I’ve had to endure because SOMEONE in the platoon doesn’t understand what it means by ‘Smartest 4’ (read: the most perfect No. 4