Monday, January 01, 2007 @1:59 PM
i m suppose to blog abt this when i came home on sat. but becuz my schedule was too packed. i din. thus i will pen this entry down before subsequently addin another entry in.
CLM fieldcamp was an experience i will nv forget. the whole 3 days 2 night saga was absolutely undescribable. it was far the worst field camp in my entire life haha. here goes :
1st day we were introduced to navigation skills.basically we were just told to move frm checkpt to checkpt with full battle order on. with the additional weight of the comms set and casevac stretcher, fuckin weighs a tonne. to add up to my misery, it was pouring since morning and the rain just went on and on. it was an utter all time low. however we were given the benefit of sleepin on our bed for the nite instead of outfield all thanks to our considerate wing commander.
as i took off my boots. it just poured. i figured that our boots is a gd storage tank for water if there's a need for more in future.
2nd day: we were given a task of 5 missions to do. it was sth like a SIT test kinda thing but this time with more fun and dirtiness. DIRT filth i mean. as officers to be, teamwork and camaradarie is impt, which is always emphasised. which is y wadeva we do, its always in a grp. and when we got fucked, its becuz of the former reason too. i can still vividly rmb 2 particular stations whereby we needed to built a shelter using bare minimum materials and all lie inside. our grd sheet formed as the shelter were put to the test. as the 13 of us in the section laid under the shelter, Lt wenjun poured and sprayed. got us totally soaked. but we had a ball of a time. all "taupok" on top of one another.
Last station was to get across the river by buildin a floatin raft.we have the choice of crossin the bank by walkin thru, but at the expense of sleepin with a soaked underwear later. so we built. by the 4th time the raft was to be used. it was all spoilt. some fucker i shall not mention. thankfully i only got one side of ma leg wet. azhar and weishen suffered. hahahaha recallin back the incident was all funny.
Night came.we were told to pitch our tents under the trees. conditions was totally bad.there's nothing much i can say abt it. coupled with the strong rain that poured. sleepin on a slope. everything just went wrong. it felt like the end of the world. but sth made me pull myself together and go thru. thots of this special girl in my mind made everything possible. but its sth impossible now. got turned out at 4. suffered shit. full gear on. did jumpin jacks,push ups sit ups all on the muddy sludgy fields. the field camp was officially ended with the arduous task of puttin the heaviest fella on the stretcher and carry him for 5km.
so tell me wads worse? haha.
and wee jia. thank you.
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