Definition of "BMT"

During the two-hour visit, Mr Ong was briefed by commanders on the BMT curriculum and observed recruits undergoing physical training and using tablets to learn how to strip and assemble their weapons.

2015 October 14, The Straits Times (Singapore)

At the start of BMT, he could manage just two chin-ups; at the end, he was doing more than 20. “My body has toned up a lot,” he says.

2014 July 27, The Straits Times (Singapore)

Bearing arms to defend the country is the primary goal of NS, and that should remain so by sending all recruits for BMT.

2013 May 28, The Straits Times (Singapore)

Two years ago, Phua Shi Hao, 20, spent about $50 preparing for BMT on some of the smaller items at the army market.

2011 March 25, The New Paper (Singapore)

“He was a good pal in BMT, and very hardworking and promising”.

2009 March 9, The New Paper (Singapore)

We knew: People die during the first hundred days of a BMT. Although we would fly to Seattle together, a month later I might bring Jane home in a box—after the new marrow failed to engraft; after an unstoppable infection with no immune system; after liver failure when the new marrow attacked its stranger-body.

2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 102