I haven’t even enlisted and my NS so drama already.

I went for my medical check up at MCC at CMPB in July 2009; the MO suspected that I might have something called Marfan’s Syndrome simply because I’m really tall, and temporarily put me in PES D.

So they sent me to NUH’s cardiac clinic to check whether I did have Marfan’s- I had to go to NUH about 3-4 times to do a whole series of checks, some of which had to be postponed until late January this year because of my A levels. At the end of it all, it turns out that I don’t have Marfan’s whatsoever, and I was given a letter to send back to CMPB.

Two months later and I still have no idea what my PES status is (although I anticipated that it would be PES A, because I was getting A’s on everything at MCC)- and I don’t know when I’m enlisting either. All my JC mates have already enlisted, or know that they will enlist in April. I was getting nervous so I called up CMPB- and it turns out that I was still PES D. I pressured them to give me an enlistment date, which they told me that they couldn’t do because of my undefined PES.

Today I get a letter in the mail from MINDEF saying that I have been graded as PES E9 L9 (fit for administrative duties only) for 6 month(s), and this PES grading will take effect upon enlistment– and will be reviewed to a SAF medical board when it expires.

This bothers me because it seems to suggest that I will enlist directly as a clerk or something without BMT! I’m very sure that I am combat fit; the cardiologist at NUH was certain as well. I’m hoping to go to OCS or SISPEC or something meaningful, and I refuse to rot away in clerk hell ;_;

Suggestions?