A grand total of 33 Singaporean ladies enlisted for Basic Military Training on Feb. 5, 2014 after signing on with the Singapore Armed Forces, according to cyberpioneer, the official magazine of the military.

This is the largest-ever batch of ladies to enlist at any one time in the SAF.

The magazine piece goes on to list the reasons why these girls, who are mostly fresh out of junior college, decided to give their lives to the military industrial complex (for patriotism as no one mentioned money), what they miss most when they signed on (cat and boyfriend) and how they are coping (girls, apparently, can't strip and assemble rifles as well as the boys).

Read the full article, "Daughter, Sisters, Soldiers" here.

Here are some photos from the article:

This recruit ran 15 mins 12 sec for her 2.4km run, just 12s shy of full marks for this IPPT station. That's way faster than a lot of guys I know.

Woah where did they go? I can't see them

Leopard crawling builds character.

To take their minds off the physical fatigue, the recruits even sang songs such as Counting Stars by One Republic and Home by Kit Chan, on top of the usual Army songs, in order to motivate one another.

Yo dawg, that was pitch perfect, dawg.

Weaponised.

Stripping and assembly is more of a hassle for women. Wonder why.

Scaling the low rope on her first try. That's way better than a lot of guys too.

45 inclined pull-ups. Now who's your daddy?

Rifle stripping challenge between a male and female recruit:

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All photos from cyberpioneer

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