"he does plenty of stuff to us that are totally unnecessary and biased. my
section always packed up the last, not that we are slow, but that he thinks we
are, and he makes us repeat stuff over and over again. he never offers any words
of encouragement, but instead tells us that if we report sick or go out of
course, it would make his life better. or better still, he would be joyful if we
complain that we want a new section commander. Now, what on earth is such a
commander doing here?"
and thanks to him my section has the highest casualty rate during the field camp. one per day. on the 1st day kw fell off from the vehicle and went into concussion. the 2nd day lau's eyes got poked by branches while driving and he had to be evacuated to the nearest hospital. on the 3rd day josiah just collapsed in the middle of training and he was later diagnosed with shock, lethargy, dehydration and flu. at the end of our field training there were only 6 men left to do the cleaning up (the 3 were gone + nic who was excused boots for a week and hence couldnt help out) and it was very tiring compared to the other sections who had more manpower. owells.. armour commandos. cant help it.
haha.. it's over anyway. NO MORE OUTFIELD IN SINGAPORE! NO MORE! ohman i was so happy lah.. my nightmare week is over! :D now it's left with SOC and ROC. think that ROC will be even more shiong. but who cares lah.. shall take each step at a time. shall concentrate on my SOC now.
in retrospect, outfield in armour infantry shld be quite fun. but thanks to HIM it has become a nightmare for us.
but then again.. we really learnt alot. thanks to our horrible instructor and our horrible vehicle, we have learnt to do alot of stuffs DIY. like loading up of rounds the manual way (which was so tiring i tell you. pple crank up rounds but our section uses brute force to push the belt of rounds up the chute. eyeur), distributing the load among us when loading up stores onto our vehicle (thanks to our "uneven load distribution" we were punished by mounting and dismounting the stores like 5 or 6 times up and down the vehicle before he was satisfied), etc.
we learnt it the hard way. but who cares. at least we will remember what we were taught for a longer period of time. and thanks to this fieldcamp im sure my section has learnt to be more humble and take hardship better.