Mostly last week deal with lessons on what are the type of operations the army would do during war and peacetime, mostly things that i feel wont happened to me or to my country, since one thing i know for sure is that, we would rather defend then to start a war and hell, if war do comes, you can bet your ass i will rather be stateless than to engage in any war... and movies, pretty much last week, we were just in the hall watching movies, 2 of them in fact, final destination 3 and little man
This week on the other hand, we had a few days of outfield practicing some combat movements.
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---Monday---
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Nothing much, just a briefing on what we will be having over the next few days and we spent some time preparing our items for tomorrow.
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---Tuesday---
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We went to yishu avenue 3, where we spend the rest of the time in there.
In the morning, we did foot topo, where basically we are given a checkpoint in 8 digit grid reference and we had to find our checkpoint. At the checkpoint, there's a small plastic card to confirm if we reached or have we gone to holland (either this is singlish or military lingo for being lost)
After that, in the afternoon, we did vehicle camouflaging where basically we just do stuff to break the shape of the vehicle and also to protect it from being seen from the air.
Next, we did visual signals, i guess not doing anything driving related for 2-4 months really gets to you since i remember doing this back when i was learning to drive but when it's my turn, i did get kinda lost.
After that, we took the tunneler home, so i get to enjoy an 1/2 hour nap
In the night, we just do a night signal for the vehicle, not that bad, but i guess i did get myself confused with the directions..
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---Wednesday---
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Today, we went to lim chu kang area, which is near the army Armoury base. This time round, we are split to 2 groups, 1 group will be doing vehicle navigation and the other group will be doing all the other drills and we will swap the next day.
Anyway, i got to do vehicle navigation, so i guess we are kinda lucky?
Anyway, we did managed to get pretty lost, surprisingly, being on vehicle is not as easy to navigate as it seem, probably one of the reason was that the maps that we were given were out dated.. 2005 maps ... and also probably we werent really that sure on how to use compass.
Anyway, after the 1st checkpoint, it was a lot easier for us to navigated since we now have a point of references. (speaking of which, i really should clean my map when i get back to camp later today..)
At night, we just did veh navigation, thank goddness i have already done it in the afternoon, since i am really not confident at all that i can help do anything here.
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---Thursday---
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Today, we get to sleep till 7am thanks to yesterday mess.... thanks to 1 vehicle breaking down, we spent quite some time waiting for it to be repair before we could move off... if this is war, we would have been dead...
and when we reached camp, the armskoop guys were not there so more waiting...
Anyway, today was pretty tiring, we had a lesson on local security, basically it means that we are to think of a plan when we reach our deployment place. Next, we learn about anti-ambush drill, visual link up, and etc, basically operations and activities that we have to do in times of war..
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---Friday---
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Today was supposed to be a half day but in the end, as usual STC happened... we were delayed till 3pm.. fk that's 2 hours of slacking time that i could have had...
Anyway, today we had a dry run of the anti ambush drill to prepare us for live firing on monday...
I just hope nothing goes wrong if not, i guess a mini-will would be nice, if i were to sprout wings, i just hope my bro would take care of my ps3, that's all, he knows my pin number so ya, he can just get all the cash...
well, in the meanwhile, i am just watching brave story, and reading one piece all over again...
also, happiness punch ftw
This week on the other hand, we had a few days of outfield practicing some combat movements.
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---Monday---
---------------
Nothing much, just a briefing on what we will be having over the next few days and we spent some time preparing our items for tomorrow.
----------------
---Tuesday---
----------------
We went to yishu avenue 3, where we spend the rest of the time in there.
In the morning, we did foot topo, where basically we are given a checkpoint in 8 digit grid reference and we had to find our checkpoint. At the checkpoint, there's a small plastic card to confirm if we reached or have we gone to holland (either this is singlish or military lingo for being lost)
After that, in the afternoon, we did vehicle camouflaging where basically we just do stuff to break the shape of the vehicle and also to protect it from being seen from the air.
Next, we did visual signals, i guess not doing anything driving related for 2-4 months really gets to you since i remember doing this back when i was learning to drive but when it's my turn, i did get kinda lost.
After that, we took the tunneler home, so i get to enjoy an 1/2 hour nap
In the night, we just do a night signal for the vehicle, not that bad, but i guess i did get myself confused with the directions..
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---Wednesday---
-------------------
Today, we went to lim chu kang area, which is near the army Armoury base. This time round, we are split to 2 groups, 1 group will be doing vehicle navigation and the other group will be doing all the other drills and we will swap the next day.
Anyway, i got to do vehicle navigation, so i guess we are kinda lucky?
Anyway, we did managed to get pretty lost, surprisingly, being on vehicle is not as easy to navigate as it seem, probably one of the reason was that the maps that we were given were out dated.. 2005 maps ... and also probably we werent really that sure on how to use compass.
Anyway, after the 1st checkpoint, it was a lot easier for us to navigated since we now have a point of references. (speaking of which, i really should clean my map when i get back to camp later today..)
At night, we just did veh navigation, thank goddness i have already done it in the afternoon, since i am really not confident at all that i can help do anything here.
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---Thursday---
-----------------
Today, we get to sleep till 7am thanks to yesterday mess.... thanks to 1 vehicle breaking down, we spent quite some time waiting for it to be repair before we could move off... if this is war, we would have been dead...
and when we reached camp, the armskoop guys were not there so more waiting...
Anyway, today was pretty tiring, we had a lesson on local security, basically it means that we are to think of a plan when we reach our deployment place. Next, we learn about anti-ambush drill, visual link up, and etc, basically operations and activities that we have to do in times of war..
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---Friday---
-------------
Today was supposed to be a half day but in the end, as usual STC happened... we were delayed till 3pm.. fk that's 2 hours of slacking time that i could have had...
Anyway, today we had a dry run of the anti ambush drill to prepare us for live firing on monday...
I just hope nothing goes wrong if not, i guess a mini-will would be nice, if i were to sprout wings, i just hope my bro would take care of my ps3, that's all, he knows my pin number so ya, he can just get all the cash...
well, in the meanwhile, i am just watching brave story, and reading one piece all over again...
also, happiness punch ftw
