Saturday, September 15, 2007
Finally Basic Military Training is over!! No more a Recruit! No more botak head! Hahax Had quite a busy week before we passed out this morning. On September 10 Monday morining was mainly free time. But our free time kept one being distrubted due to packing and checking of field pack and Military Police coming over for a Check. At night after dinner. We head out to East Coast park for our 24km Route March. It started at 10pm and ended next morning 5:45am. The whole walk wasnt tiring. But everyone was sleepy and some was almost like sleep walking... Hahax After that we went back to camp to have a rest. We all sleep for a few hours before going for lunch. The only activity we had for the day was BCCT, Basic Close Combat Training.
From Wednesday onwards we started rehearsing on out passing out parade. But in the morning we had training. Wedesday Moring I had my SOC Evaluation. I failed my timing but managed to clear the obsticles. 600M to 700M rundown is a killer man... But the SOC Evaluation on thursday I managed to pass it! Hahax Friday there was suppose to be IPPT Retest for those who fail and those who wanna get a better grade. But those who are nominated to be tankees went for the Psychomotor test. The test was held at Sungei Gedong Camp where 42SAR 46SAR and Armour HQ is. Its really big. The Psychomotor test actually test you on how well you turn the turret of the tank, the rounding off of the tank rounds HE and FS and setting of range. Which stands for High Explosive and Fin Stablizer. The turning of turret test consist of Hydrolics and Manual. The Manual one is the tricky one since it both hands must move in different directions at the same time. The turning of turret I did it fast. But the setting of range I couldnt see the number so I took a long time. Overall over 17 people who took part I was number ten. But all in all everyone passed. After the test we went to the Canteen to have our first SAF canteen break! Hahax Damn the food taste good. If cookhouse food were that good! Back to camp we do rehersals again. But I skip most of them coz I had interview with the Platoon Commander. Hahax so I only did one final rehearsal.
And TODAY is the day. We Pass Out! We wake up early in the morning at 5am just to get ready and all. By the time its almost 7am, parents already start coming already. The Parade started at 7:45am. Everything went well and everyone had fun. Never before we felt so happy and excited in army. Hahax The Parade ended at around 10. After we all have some fun, settle down, toss our platoon segeant and all, we leave the camp at 11plus. And dammit it was raining.
Went home, had a good rest, then I went out in the evening to enjoy! Hahax Went to Lepak with Aizat, Izhar and their cousin Eddy. Along with 3 other of their friends. Meet Ami Ganesh and Yazeer too. All of us Passed Out already and now we are Privates! No more recruits! Hahax
Clemence Chang
