Has been some time since I update my blog...the following post will mainly be about my life as the lowest lifeform around at Pulau Tekong for the past 9 weeks, as a CHOU RECRUIT. After 9 weeks now im a private loh!
Any way I start talking about the first to weeks there, which is the so call adjustment period. The first week the commanders really CARE FOR SOILDERS.As if like some angel like that. It's only about coming to the end of the second week, the devil start invading each and every of the commanders soul. All the TEGAN start to come. I hardly get use to the stupid timing they give. Rush you up, right, left, front, back, down like nobody's business. After all the rush.....you wait. Meaning to say you rush to wait. But afterall these are training...
Standard timing in Tekong,0530 revellie(wake up), 0545 fall in for 5BX(some stupid excercise), 0600 breakfast, 0630 area cleaning, 0730 first parade....blah blah blah! First few weeks they are preparing us for IPPT and starting of SOC( Standard Obstacle Course ). So the training is consider quite packed. At the end of the day everyone give a very shag face in bunk. Then of course got some SIAO-ON will go OTOT chin-up, go run at track. As for me I only SIAO-ON during sleeping..hahaha Also, I got to mention about the curse of TEKONG almost 80% will start coughing after staying at TEKONG for few days. I still remember that time the whole lecture hall of recruit were coughing, till the extend that the speaker request the recruits to control the coughing as the noise is overly disturbing.
Training are quite tough at first, because afterall its post exam period,people want to enjoy slacking at home,go pubbing..who will go to the gym? When SOC training started im actually quite surprise to see the number of people who can't get pass the high wall at the SOC ground. SOC is one of the training that I think is fun, my performance varies in SOC. Once i did the full SOC rundown in 6 min plus timing in SBO attire and rifle and the next time i actually failed at the vertical rope. After all the physical training, its the start of the range. We started learning those I.A( Immediate.Action) drills which are meant to be carry out when your rifle is in some problem. Then we proceed on training at the IMT all the way till our live-fire day. During the live-fire day we actually have to wait the whole day for different detail to proceed just for our few shots.
After the live-fire, we got a short break for chinese new year. Right after we came back its our field camp. It's the most F*** ed up part in BMT. The main purpose of the field camp is actually to level up the recruit discipline. So obviosly, pairs and pairs of horns start to grow on the commander's head. What really made field camp so F***ed up is the sleep and the use of lighting. They expect the recruits to use torchlight without being spotted(so-called light discipline). We slept on our fieldpack and the hard ground and it's freezing cold at night. At the field camp we ate those biscuits and combat ration. Some combat ration are consider edible to me, some are totally bullshit.It's like u mash a pack of mixed food and you eat it. Taste crapy. The worst part of the field camp is the digging of shell scrap. The standard of a shell scrap is to rifle length long and two bayonet deep down. That hole will keep u shag for the rest of the day. We are only equiped with a ET blade and stick to get the job done. Even a professional Bangala is better equiped then us when digging a hole. The fun part of the field camp is the urban ops part. We learn hw to clear a room solo as well as a team. Kinda like playing real life CS...just that we are shooting blanks. After the 6 days field camp..you will start to apperciate the cookhouse food and your bunk....hahahaha
So the following week right after fieldcamp is the 12 KM route march and sit-test. The route march ended me with a feet full of blister and knee strain. It rained during the march, my socks and boots were totally wet inside out, needless to mention my clothes.But the worst has yet to come. That night after we built our basha-tent a storm came and my tent was actually leaking wate, the whole tent collapse. When my tent-mate and i crawled out, we realise everything are in a pool of mud.
I was excused for grenade throw so not much to mention....so right after the sit-test my next major event was the POP parade. Days before POP i got attend C so I went back home. Nothing much I can talk about POPing.What I know is...it was raining during the POP day.
Haix...for those who have served I believe you also think that being a recruit sux. For those have yet to be enlisted..I would say have fun in there.LOL
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