SINGAPORE - Once a star pupil in school, Mr Lee Rui Xuan hit rock bottom in 2017, when he was thrown into the army's detention barracks for being absent without official leave (Awol) from camp during his national service (NS).
To make matters worse, his secondary school classmates serving their NS in the military police were his wardens.
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