Army, here i come
Today is book out day from Camp Sapphire. Camp sapphire is very much a mock up of a BMT kind of thing. It isn't as tough or as physically demanding, but the things we do are roughly about similiar.
Today's program was rather slack, as in, much time was spent waiting for a lost platoon who had thier bus coming late. The main hihglight of today's camp was the trip to Pulau Tekong, the traditional
rites of passage for most boys to becoming real Men. Also visted the School of Infantry Specialists, or more commonly known as SISPEC. Don't intend to enroll in SISPEC though, but it was an eye-opener as to how a Army specialist lives, works, trains and suffers. A real eye-opener to say the least.
What i've learnt so far during CS,
1) In Army, you get to see many different trypes of people, from the very blur ones, to the very
Garang ones. From the friendly ones, to the very rude ones.
2) Army food is okay, not very excellent, but edible to say the least.
3) Singing Army songs during marches are a great morale and spirit booster.
4) Always greet your Sergeants as "Sergeants" and Officers as "Sirs".
5) The army No.4 is fire resistant, but retains the smell from the training a day ago.
6) Never apply Camo cream like how you would applying paint.
7) Sleep by 2230hrs every night, or die the next day.
8) Always air-dry your No.4 the night before, or die from the smell the next day.
9) IFC is interesting
10) The
"fast-craft" to tekong isn't exactly fast.
11) Drink plenty of water.
Thats about all i can think of right now
We'll be doing M16 weapons handling on Wednesday and live firing on Thursday. Yeah man!
A response to "Anonymous"
First of all, i would like to make a point. Please input your name, instead of leaving it blank, as it is the most fundemental form of courtesy. I would greatly appreciate that. Thanks.
Secondly, thank you for highlighting your concern if it is one actually, however. Let me point out an area that i would like elucidated. Yeap, i do agree with you that respect should be earned, not entitled. Perhaps, you may feel that i'm not fit for the job, whihc at times, i feel can be very tough, but i do have one thing that entitlment with or without it can provide - Self-respect and Integrity. I respect the fact that i'm willing to learn from comments like yours, and i have the integrity to stand up to it and not wrap myself in cowardice and take cover. Being who i am, i feel that there are areas of discipline that i should upkeep and uphold. However, we are all human beings afterall, one cannot just live in a sheel and be contented for the rest of his life. Hence, i may seem abit more on the non-serious, totally lackadaisical side, then that is the side which i do not usually show. Close friends of mine will understand what i mean. :D
If you'ld like to get in touch with me, over some pressing matters that you may have, please, do feel free to e-mail me as I'm always open to suggestions on how i should improve on certain things. I will greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
My e-mail is
scionfire@yahoo.com or if you'll like to make any comments, do fell free to e-mail it here too :
feedback29cjcsc@yahoo.com
Some quotes for all of us to ponder on as well :
"Don't judge a man untill you have walked two moons in his moccasins (Shoes)" American Indian Saying
"A leader is a man who assumes responsibility, he says 'Iwas beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten'" Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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