On Patrick Tan's vs Ben Davis's Deferments

"To be fair, it is not just the PAP elites who get such disruptions. When I was an 18yo in OCS, my Company mate was a 28yo NSF who came back to serve after being disrupted for post-grad studies. He came back with a Ph.D in engineering; we all called him Dr ***. He charged up hills in FBO like the rest of us, and during social night he brought his wife when most of us brought girlfriends...

[ex-S1 here]. What I'm saying is that it's not true that only PAP elites get disrupted to do Ph.D; I have a farmer who also got disrupted to study up to Ph.D."