Introduced in 1971, the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship (SAFOS) is a prestigious scholarship, widely recognised as second only to the President's Scholarship. The SAFOS is awarded annually to outstanding service personnel who have excelled in their studies and co-curricular activities, and performed well in the officer cadet course. The SAFOS has attracted the best and brightest from each cohort of school-leavers to join the SAF. Upon completion of their tertiary education, the scholars return to the armed forces to assume a variety of challenging appointments to groom them for the highest level of leadership positions in the SAF and the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF). There are 292 SAFOS recipients to date.

Past SAF overseas scholars include Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Swee Say, Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for Social and Family Development and Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Defence Major-General (NS) Chan Chun Sing, Acting Minister for Manpower and Senior Minister of State for Ministry of National Development Brigadier-General (NS) Tan Chuan-Jin, 

The eight SAFOS recipients this year are:

Name: OCT Lee Whee Sian Dylan
Junior College: Raffles Institution
Course: Departing for studies in 2014

Name: OCT Li Yiming
Junior College: Raffles Institution
Course: Departing for studies in 2014

Name: OCT Lim Yu Han
Junior College: NUS High School
Course: Global Affairs, Yale College, USA

Name: OCT Jonathan Loh You Qing
Junior College: Raffles Institution
Course: Ecology and Environmental Biology, Imperial College London, UK

Name: OCT Jeremy Ong Jun Kai 
Junior College: Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
Course: Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

Name: Officer Cadet (OCT) Foo Sze Wei
Junior College: Temasek Junior College 
Course: Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

Name: OCT Marcus Lee Jian Ying
Junior College: Hwa Chong Institution
Course: Physics, University of Oxford, UK

Name: OCT Maung Thet Naing Win
Junior College: Hwa Chong Institution
Course: Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK