Hey all...kommt mir gut ins Feierabend, endlich bin ich wieder zu Hause nach...11 Tagen? Na ja 7 Tagen inmitten eines Regenwaldes...haha...okay la. Had my field camp over there...what can i say? To learn the basics of fieldcraft and survival so that your chances of survival in jungle combat imcrease? To teach the basics of combat, camouflage, concealment, movement, and so on and so forth...I guess we're lucky to have 1WO Karna wif us? As a Commando, he knows more and teaches more, but he demands even higher standards from us which we couldn't all achieve...that's why our camo can be so different from the others...the other platoons insisted on 3 stripes of black for camo...ours is...more into breaking the shape and features of the face into light and shadow...show you my patterns next time la (cuz we spent like 2 and a half freaking rolls of film) i guess we get Commando training and Commando standards. That's good. I'm serious. I still wanna learn how to dive down like he does when we get contacted by fire...instead of the standard way...looked damn seh in any case...
Yeah we also learnt concealment, we all stuffed leaves and all that whatnot to our helmets, SBO (Skeletal Battle Order) and proned down in the undergrowth...apparently the school 2IC came to visit...he saw no one, then Karna told us to stand up...wow, really quite zai right, from nothing to like more than 40 heads bobbing out of the undergrowth...can tell that he was impressed la. not bad. Can't say the same for the other days when we did our fire movement...we farked up so bad that PC almost blew his top...uncoordinated and everything, but hey we're newbies! Wish we could do better though, cuz our PC's going...it's fun lah...how you have to prone down immediately and react accordingly to enemy fire...normally you have to perform a charge (termed chiong sua...) yea it's damn bloody tiring but damn bloody fun too...the adrenaline pumps through your veins and yea you just push and push on...also learned field movement...walk, rush, crawl, roll...i won't elaborate....go learn urself la! haha...
This morning we went for Battle Inoculation...a course where you and your rifle have to crawl (back and leopard crawl) 70 metres through sand and barbed wire, then throw a dummy grenade and physically attack a Figure 15 target...this is considered the ultimate chiong sua because the crawling is damn tiring (as i speak my elbows and knees are raw) but i guess i was immune to pain for up to half the way until...The Obstruction. Darüber will ich nichts mehr reden...not bad i must say...the walk there was quite demanding also la cuz muz keep taking cover and muz chiong over a bridge...now i know why SOC is so tiring...wie es aussieht werde ich meinen Spielplatz-Test durchfallen...Failed. Cut off. and so on. and so forth. damn shack sial! hai...i donno leh i wanna pass everything, it's the least i should do...yea but i LOVE to chiong! Pain is temporary, glory is forever...
Nights in Tekong are just beautiful, especially in the outfield. I saw lots of fireflies in the jungle, and the constellations twinkle back at you from the Great Dark beyond...also learnt about night movement...Ghost Walk. Crawl. hmm. What else about the nights? Oh...sleeping in the basha must be with your rifle...i hugged it for each and every night...-zzzz- so uncomfortable, like high-podding the weapon all the way even when u sleep sia...
The bad stuff. Powder bathes. Bleargh. you gotta put all that white stuff all over you and turn totally white...you still gotta check clear in front of the platoon sergeant *snickers* haha...the disgusting mush we call combat rations...been eating out of a green packet for the past 7 days and i sure as hell dun wanna repeat that experience...it's sick lor...now i'm home and have access to more humanlike food...haha...as if i've been living on a planet for the past week? yea....sigh ok la i have to go and sleep...too shacked sial. bonne nuit, je nous aime...
Oh. As an afterthought, did i mention that we only got blank rounds to fire throughout the camp? They're not only unreliable (lots of stoppages!), dirty (dirtier than live rounds!), silly (only a small flash and bang), and they're made of plastic...goodness. never mind. Every morning when we are issued our rounds to load our magazines, chew on our dog biscuits and apply our camouflage creme to our faces, it still comes out of a scene from any action movie. Wanna know more? Be a part of it! ciao...
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