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Hey
Hello :)
I've sort of lost track of the date somewhat but I do know CNY coming soon :) [andy lau- hui jia de gan jue zhen hao] Well well, its been 1 month already. Hahz, kinda have a surreal feeling looking at the old photos posted online as well as our juniors STJ, grandjuniors' posts and stuff like that. Sort of used to the army life le ba despite still having one foot in the civilian world.(I cant imagine have both in the military world) Used to it so much that most of all we converse abt is NS.... cant blame us, we hardly read newspapers and our vocab has become horrendously limited.
Hmm, for those peeps who havent gone for fieldcamp yet.... let u in on some details ba.
1)You'll put on camou everyday (i.e.paint for face green and black)...
2)have lectures on file formations and responding to enemy fire. How to "attack"... leap and bound from tree to tree or flank the enemy.... interestingly, my campsites were a rubber plantation, an oil palm plantation and a place that was supposed to resemble reclaimed land. I wonder why they have such landscaping :)
3)you'll fire over a 100 blanks and grin as you try to comfort yourself as carbon slowly piles up in your bolt carrier groups with every shot. You'll spend 12hours digging shellscrapes and a shoulder height fire trench (bless you if it rains cos you'll be sleeping in a swimming pool)
4)Cover your ears as your section mates hurl vulgarities at you if you happen to be the enemy and they start their charge to overun the enemy. It can be quite amusing you see them charging for a while before everyone stops for IA.
5)You'll love combat rations :)
6)You'll love leopard crawl even more :) Oh, and there's this very fun Battle Innoculation Course where you're supposed to crawl under wire entanglements and stuff with GPMGs firing live round above you albeit 2m above or possibly higher. At the end you'll finally get to throw your dummy grenade and if you're lucky, you'll have the most hated instructor walk into the projectile of your grenade :) Then you duck and pretend nothing happened.
7)Instructors will stun your rifles at every chance. Better hug your wife when you sleep cos they unbuckle the straps too.... rifle straps....
On the brighter side, hope for a clear sky at the reclaimed land site because the stars are dazzling in the wide open sky as you try to fall asleep in your shellscrape.
Haha, and oh yes... footdrill is damn fun, esp when you got pple who look like their playing one eye peek-a-boo instead of saluting. And when pple march straight out of the line when they do their omat kekanan omats... or when pple start hentak kaki-ing on other pple's heels.
So that's my update. Very much like to hear all the interesting working/army experiences you all had yup. Dun think we can go back for any HCI event like CNY anytime soon. Probably the next time will be when we collect our A level results. Maybe then we could take the 3rd photo on those steps outside our old class bench to complete our Hwa Chong journey.
Hard to say whether I'd prefer to still be a student, too much into the new phase I guess.
The day has vanished and left us behind,
a path yet taken we're waiting to find.
It lies in the distance hidden from sight,
as dreams of the future start to take flight.
Till we meet again,
REC RYAN
[apparently my name too long so they use this :)]
ryaniq lived on 8:16 PM
- 03S78 forever -
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