::A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages::: I survived the horror called

::A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages::

Friday, May 09, 2008

I survived the horror called - fieldcamp

Wheeeee. It has been almost a month already, since i entered NS. Seems fast, yet its so damn painfully slow everyday.

Ok im back at home only cause theres another of the SPF interview tomorrow, except this time its more like a medical checkup. They can do anything to me, but please just dont draw my blood. Seriously i got the blood phobia, anything to do with blood. And i got phobia of needles too. So please ...

And there's the fieldcamp. Hmm. Its not as tough as i expected it to be, but still its tiring, exhausting. Y'know that kinda experience, memorable but so mentally and physically exhausting, when you think back and you're glad to have gone through it, but at the same time you wont want to do it again. Yeah, thats how i feel about the fieldcamp anyway.
In short, within the 6 days i have :
-not showered the entire time
-navigated 2 days in the forest in pitch darkness
-built basha(spelling?)/a tent for 2 and slept in it
-dug a shellscrape(a coffin-like hole in the ground) for 2 days and managed to sleep in it
-gone through the physically-draining but fun BIC with live bullets over head
-practised rifle drills with blank rounds
-gotten blisters all over my feet

Overall its fun i guess. Nights were most beautiful, there's little or no light at all at Tekong at night. So you can see the many stars in all their glory as you lie in your shellscrape. Learnt a lot of stuff, probably redundant in civilian life. Right now my back is aching, cause of the fieldpack that weighs like 10 kg but feels like a hundred. Yeah we have to carry that, apart from the rifle at all times. Tsk tsk they're just trying to make it so much harder y'know, make it more difficult for us. Commanders are screaming their asses off at us every second, and we're constantly doing push-ups, crunches, jumping jacks and whats-not. Food wasn't so bad, combat ration that looks like pet food, but tastes surprisingly good. And they're packed in this square, plastic pouch thing, supposed to be fibre-free so you dont shit so much. Whoever got the idea man. Sick in the head.

Im just glad i got through this fieldcamp thing. I heard in BMT its like the toughest or something. So if you can survive the fieldcamp you can survive the rest of BMT. Hopefully.

Man im so physically and mentally drained. I so need a massage right now. Volunteers?

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Posted @1:29 AM

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