Week 26 in the army

Well, the day has finally arrived, now my course has started and i am back to a trainee at Sembawang Camp, hopefully nothing much has changed.

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--Monday--
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Well, it's the first day and already i am finding myself asking what happened to my old STC camp? Seems like while i was away, someone let loose alot of mad dogs... All they did on the first day was just keep on barking new rules..

In the afternoon, we had our first lesson, it was on a topic called LIVE which stands for
L - Leadership & Learning
I - Identity & Image
V - Values
E - Experience (positive)

Basically, it just a talk on how we as supervisor should carry ourselves and show a positive image, something to that effect and how there are different type of leaders, even if you are a passive person like me, it's still counted.

Then, there was another lesson on concept map which is pretty much a slightly upgraded mindmap i guess??

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--Tuesday--
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Today lesson starts off in the morning with a talk on Personal Visioning. We had to come up with a 5 year plan in which where do we see ourselves? Then there was a story which goes something like this.

There were 5 people on a ship: A sailor, an old lady, a young lady, her fiancee and her fiancee's best friend. So, anyway, there they were on a ship cruising in the ocean when a storm strikes and they were toss overboard. During the storm, they were split up and the lady found herself on a deserted island with the sailor and the old lady.
She then spotted another island where she think that her fiancee might be there. There were stories that the water was infested with shark, so she asked the sailor if he could fixed the boat? The sailor say sure, i do it if you sleep with me. Shocked, the lady went to the old lady for advice. The old lady told her to just follow her heart and do what she think is right. Confused as heck, she decided to sleep with the sailor. The sailor kept his end of the bargain and he fixed the boat. When she got to the other island, she saw her fiancee. She told him what has happened between her and the sailor. Disgusted, the fiancee tell her:"Don't touch me!! I dont want to see you again". So, the lady was feeling heart broken when the best friend saw her. He told her:"I dont know what happened, but i will try and patch things between you and him, in the meantime, let me take care of you."

We were then asked to rank 1 - 5 to the characters based on their values and how we feel about them. 1 for the best and 5 for the worst.

The lesson that we drew from this was that all of us have different values so, we gave different score to the characters.

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In the afternoon, we were given a talk by another lecturer on Military Law and pretty much a quick runthrough on what we can do and what we cant do with our future new powers
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--Wednesday--
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Today, we were given another lecture based on procedures on issuing and receiving items. It's pretty dry though and arghh, just to lend someone something in the army, there are so many steps that we need to do..

Then, there's another lecture on maintancing our storeroom and safety issues

After that in the afternoon, yet another lecture on storeroom inspection.

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--Thursday-
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Today, we went through more lectures.

One was on destruction procedure for items, what are the things that we need to go through before we can properly destroy anything..

Then, we learn about the structure of our unit, whos' under what and etc.

Next, we have a brief overview for supply/repair procedures.

Another lecture on logistic terminology was given, damn, they even have a unit for cake.. wtf?

Then, another lecture on the procedures on loan and issue was given as well

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--Friday--
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Today was pretty quick since it's new year eve so we have a halfday today.

There was a few lectures today, basically on the preservation of stores, packing of them, what are cushioning materials and finally a lecture on the monthly inspection, what do we need to prepared?

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That was it, 1st week of my course and it involved lectures. Next week would be full of lectures as well since our course is 11 weeks long.

4 week of lecture, 4 week of practical, 3 weeks of on the job training. I guess the only thing that i am not looking forward to is that our lessons are gonna be extra long all the way till 10pm...

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