GOod MorniNg everybody! Hows the day starting out? Gd i hope =).
It was just a mere 9 hours ago since i booked out of camp and with less than 6 hours of sleep i'm up waiting to go for squash. hahaha. The past week of training for me was rather slack as there were only 3 night trainings and with thursday having a 2.5hr admin break time for the whole platoon. OmG. it was the first time that i had actually got the oppornunity to read newspaper and do whatever i want to do. ok now for the major events that happened during the week
1) Learning a new weapon. THE SAW ( Section Assult Weapon ) But i would rather call it the Super Ancient Weapon. Alright, i'm not too sure if i'm allowed to disclose details on that weapon so i shall keep it short. Anyway its really a very sucky weapon and guess what? its actually made in Singapore. Wow.. so much for manufacturing standards.
2) Test. Omg.. Surprise test was given to us just before book out. Ok we were actually given 2 weeks to study it but last night , our platoon commander had actually told us that it would be given nxt week and out of a sudden , our sergeant just went " hey u guys betta take this time and study cause u are having your test tonight" -___- Then during the test, my sergeants were looking through my paper after i end it up but they all gave me the confirmed confinement look. Then after that Coporal John was looking through it in detail and after that he gave me the thumbs up. Hmm.. i really hope that i do pass that test if not there goes my training on saturday.
3) Made Det Commander again yesterday. Sigh.. It was pushing in the gun time and the Coporals were like " Who would like to voluneer for Det Com?" Obviously nobody wanted to be Det commander as it was a very stressful role. THen Coporal Kai Quan was like " U do know that if i were to choose,who i'm going to choose right" And that ans was Jackson. Omg no way! Then while he was saying that, Coporal John was looking at me with that grin. And that was because the last time i was made Det Com, i had managed to align the gun with 2 trys which was a pretty gd attempt i must say. So anyway there was i being DEt com. So there we went, pushing the gun forwards first for the distance and also space. Then after settling that it was alright, i commandered it to move backwards into the hanger. Damm, we missed the turning point because i wasnt really loud enough and that the guys didnt echo out my commmand. Now then i realise how impt echoing is. But it was too late, the gun was totally out. Then Pc came down and was noticing how we were doing our job and stuff. So i tried aligning the gun with the limited space infront of the hanger and it was hopeless. Too little space for rectifying such a huge error. So i took up Sergeant Jack's advice of pushing back the gun to its original position. ok while that was going on, we had also pumped about 40 times and pushed the PSU in and out of the hanger as we couldnt meet the timing given to us. Sigh then the biggest and most stressful threat came, " IF u guys cant push the gun out within the nxt 20 mins, you will push out another gun!" Omg that was the worst thing that could happen and that was also the start of all the mishaps. First was Terence who fell while pushing the PSU in the hanger and he was one of the strongest guys around, then came Rong Quan who fell as we were told to run to the PSU as fast as possible if not we'll have to knock it down. SO 2 fitting fit guys were out. Ok let me give u guys some numbers first, for the gun side, we only have about 10 fighting fit guys and now 2 guys were out right, so it leaves with only 8 out of the eight, you need 7 to push and command the gun so we are left with 1 right? and the last one was already left to rest as he had a hand cramp. I was like so feeling so stressed and guilty as i feel that it was my fault for not aligning the gun properly hence dragging the time. Then at 18mins plus, the sergeant made the call to change one pusher. Terence voluneered but no way was i going to let him push as he had already injured himself so he replaced me as Det commander while i became the pusher. By the time he had taken over, i had already aligned the gun so it was actually up to the pushers to push in the gun. Rather the gun was aligned pretty early but we just cant push it in. So yeah the 3 pushers at that time was , Ding wei, Chinaman and myself. I was really damm pissed at myself as i had felt it was my fault for the 2 injured guys and all the punishment that was melted to us so when we were given the command to push the gun, i just gave it all . And the best part, the gun went in on our first try! And also for the first time, with only 3 men. As normally they would give us the 4th pusher to help us push it in. Ok we are weak but what do u expect pushing a 6.5ton vehicle? I was so happy that i nearly cried. Sigh. Sigh sigh sigh. Though we had managed to push in the gun but i'm still very demoralised and no longer believe that i'm a good det com. sucks man being the det com.
Oh! one gd thing about yesterday was the supper that i had with Fu yong at geylang. Frog leg was gd man!! =)
Alright i guess thats enough of the story, its already 850am and i guess i have to get already as i'm fetching , yongqi, yonghui and yimin to go to training.
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