the last week
have been really laggy with my updates because i have been prepping materials for my tutee's CTs, as if i were taking his common test HAHA. havent event checked out all the blogs on my links for a long time. nvm, 1 thing at a time. i shall update in bits (:
ill start with the last few days of my BSLC course first. while other coys were having a relaxed last week, our coy had late nights up till the the very last day thanks to our lousy training programme and our inefficiency. we started with live firing, where echo company finished like 3 hours before us?
the weather really hates me, cos dark clouds started to gather just before i entered the live firing field, and it started raining heavily whilst i was doing my live firing in the open.
kai warned me that i had the muddiest portion of the field and it was true lohh. ): after a hot morning, the mud had been baked dry but it HAD to rain after i entered the field. live firing was scary cos u are afraid the person next to u might accidentally misfire and kill u. cos u r dealing with loads of live rounds. i was a SAW gunner so i had the most rounds - 100. it was really fun to hold on the trigger and fire a spray of rounds (but of cos its the scariest weapon because u can spray).
back to the weather. we were cursing at the lousy weather and our luck. if we went in 1 detail earlier, we would have escaped the rain and would be under shelter in the training shed. nvm. i went back to the training shed all muddy and GUESS WHAT! 5 min later it stopped raining! ARGH. THE WEATHER HATES ME.
after the live firing (noone died so we dint get 3 days off to commemorate the person's death), we fired penflares which were like mini fireworks in the sky. was quite pretty but it was a pity we fired it in the day.
when we went back to our company line, hotel had a nights off. that was when we started cleaning our weapon. and guess what. when hotel came back from nights off, we were STILL cleaning arms. they must think we r crazy.
ok. the next day was prep for our 28km route march. dint get much sleep, which was veri diff frm wad we were promised. we started packing up and emptying our cupboards and sending stores and all. we then went for many many parade rehearsals. later in the evening we started our 28km route march. the first 20km was easy peasy for me. it was the last 8km that was really tough cos we had to go thru NTU a second time.
haha. basically the route was 1 round outside the camp, then to NTU, out of NTU to our field camp site, then return in the reverse direction. this route was repeated twice. the NTU part was the worst. i was very happy at first cos we get to walk on nice pavements. but the route was really screwed cos it had lots of really steep upslopes and downslopes. and when we were heading back there the 2nd time, all of us were filled with immense dread for the slopes.
when we completed 28km, we immediately marched back to camp, re-organised in a training shed beside the parade square for a new minutes then marched straight into the parade square for our graduation parade. it was a really tough parade cos we had our field packs on, rifles on and stuff. and we had to endure thru the whole parade AND stand in attention. everyone felt like dying cos of the weight on our shoulders. and we still had to listen to all the rubbish which the speaker was talking about HAHA. after that, we had to wait for our PCs to issue us our corporal ranks, one by one. and we all became full-fledged corporals (:
after that, we did area cleaning and tidied up the place (as usual,
X was sleeping) and prepared to leave. unlike BMT, i felt totally nothing for juliet coy. cldnt wait to leave that coy. however, we had to wait for our posting order before we could leave thoughh. had a long wait and finally we got our posting orders. got posted to armour ): BLEAHHH that sucks. its either a 18 or 21 week long course boohoo :/ and it is one of the ulu-est camp in singapore. some of us got posted to the much coveted air force and medic units, but as usual, im not lucky enough. so ull hear me talk more about tanks over the next few weeks :/
consilio et animis
6/03/2007 09:58:00 PM
