The Official NS Vocations Tier List (SAF Edition)

S-tier: Medic, Storeman, Transport Operator

The S-tier is the vocations where you sleep in your own bed more than in a shell scrape. The storeman photo on our slide is a row of guys in singlets grinning in front of boxes, and that is the energy.

Transport Operator made it because you sit down for most of the job. Medic made it because everyone needs you and nobody makes you dig. We know some medics on field camps are reading this and disagree. Take it up in the comments, 210 people already did.

A-tier: Military Police and Logistics

Military Police gets the bike, the white helmet and the checkpoint, and that alone puts it above half the list. Logistics is the people who decide whether everyone else gets their stuff, which is power.

If you are still pre-enlistee and want the ground truth before any of this, start with our piece on your first day on Pulau Tekong.

B-tier: Artillery, Armour, Signals

The middle of the list. Artillery and Armour mean big machines and real exercises, but you are not carrying everything on your back the whole way. Signals sits here because it is a tent, a laptop and a radio set, which beats a jungle, just about.

C-tier: Infantry, Guards, Commando, Combat Engineers

The bottom tier is the four that get the most respect and the least sleep. Infantry, Guards and Commando are the field-heavy ones, and Combat Engineers come with gas masks on our slide for a reason.

Bottom of a slack tier list is not an insult, it is the opposite. These are the vocations people tell stories about for the next 20 years. They just never say they wanted to stay longer.

Food matters as much as vocation, and we ranked that too in the SAF cookhouse tier list. The last slide promises an SPF vocations list next, so the police side is not off the hook.