1st up was knowing that we will be confined due to field camp. Next was knowing we had field camp... Double whammy... T_T
The 1st week without field camp was chicken feet... UGH! I fail my IPPT by 39 seconds!!! If i've not walked that 2 rounds I'll get silver at least -_-''
Day before field camp was hectic... Rush to pack everything... Thank God for wet tissues and tights! :) Anti Abrasion and pimples prevention =D
Day 1
8KM route march with FULL BATTLE ORDER to campsite 1, the trek was soooo dusty that everyone started coughing away... As we walked reached the campsite, 1/2 the company was dragging their feet along... Hot sun, heavy packs lousy road.
Our backs were wet and our body smelled... 1st thing to do wasn't rest. It was to build our bashas... On the sandy and uneven grass patch... I wanted to die when I saw wad I would be sleeping on... Dinner was combat ration. It was 1st time experience for me & I had a very very good pack - Baked Pasta with Black Pepper Chicken, it even has desert! Green Bean with Coconut milk! So nice.
OC stood infront of all of us and said "Something is wrong with the company..." Then, it was makeup time! All of us were to put on our campflouge >_<' We camped there laid down some rules - Noise and light discipline, no talking or using of torchlight at night. We had guard duty as well...
The highlight of the day was powder bathing. All of us were to strip to our underwear... Open th prickly heat and start pouring as if it was water instead of powder. Then we had to make sure every part of our body is powdered... my gosh... now we know where to haze comes from... 200 over people powder bathing at the same time... imagine the amount of dust from the powder.
It was fun though. We threw powder at each other. The feeling was kinda icky coz sweat, dirt all over but coz of the prickly heat we felt very cold...
That's pretty much wad we did for day 1
Day 2
Woke up as early as 0530hrs, 5BX and we had a few lessons... It's very stupid that we have to have lessons in the middle of the forest just to waste away 1 day...
Combat ration for lunch, it sucked coz it was braised chicken with mushroom rice...
We were applying all our lessons. Fire movement, fire command etc. The funnest was Arti-drill... When someone shout "INCOMING!" all have to run and duck, covering ur weapon. Then as the arti is lifted we all make a run-for shouting "Arti-arti" all e way til we reach camp. Heat rash started to develop... no bath throughout... Ouch man..
Dinner was better as we were allowed to cook maggie mee. Hahas. I actually cooked milo for the section. Then I did heat up my pasta with surimi combat ration - very very nice :)
We had to powder bath again... so sianz... so dirty...
Last day staying in the rubber plantation, tml we'll all trek to oil palm...
Day 3
When we reached our new campsite it started to rain. We had to rush to build a basha for the whole section. Everyone was lost as to how we shld build a big one. So I just tried to take the lead. I know some of them appreciated my lead but there were some that think I was acting garang. Nvm, at least SGT saw my leadership skills...
As night comes it rained even harder. some of our trash were left out of e basha. About 3 or 4 am I felt something going thru our trash. Then it came to my feet, sniffed my boots. Stepped on my legs. Immediately I know it was a wild boar!!! A baby one. I tried to trap it under my legs so that ppl can see. But I end up kicking it away. Haha, so funny.
Day 4
We broke down the basha, took a 500m walk to a malay school for our technical break. Which means to say no training, no combat rations, no need to dig hole to shit! Hahas. Then the surprise came, they had shower points there! We could take a shower!!! Shiok!
We had fresh rations delievered to us. It felt great coz it's piping hot. We had an ice cold orange for desert as well! Yum.
This time there was no powder bath! Sleep was jus as terrible, instead of sleeping on sand, mud and rain, we slept on hard and sandy concreate floor.
Day 5
Early morning wake up, packed our stuff, head back to oil palm plantation. This time we pitched our regular 2 men basha.
We had our fire movement test. We used blanks in our M16, so fun to fire rifle. I think my group was great. We were like the most alert in our section. 2 of us aspire to go OCS but my buddy just wans a simple NS.
After the test, we had again maggie time. Hahas. This time I just heat up my ration. Don't wanna eat maggie anymore. Lazy to take out my mess tins. After dinner was stand-to again... Power bath, Then sleep...
Day 6
Woke up, break basha. We are going to head to our last campsite - the reclaimed land. The journey was spectacular. We walked passed an empty field full of lalangs. Beautiful. There was a bridge which brings us over a very beautiful river with very clear waters. It sort of gave us a morale boost.
As we walk into the jungle, i started to lag behind... Coz I couldn't take the weight anymore... SGT asked me to fall out. Shoved me up the rover... When we reached the campsite, everyone just took out their water bottles and drank up. I was brought to the medic tent. Had to shove myself 4 bottles of water. Eat 2 fruit bars... Almost wanted to vomit... Actually I vomitted 2 times... The medic put me on drip...
He tried my left hand, couldn't find e vein, the right hand also can't find. End up he was so frustrated he plucked out the tube and asked me to suck the IV drip pack...
Sent back to dig trench... Halfway through, OC told me. "I tot u were sick? Don't dig." He asked my buddy to make sure I don't dig.. Ugh... Though I don't have to dig but I miss the fun... I had to sit there watching my section mate working hard as I can do nth...
The trench was for us to sleep in. Since I do not have a trench I had to slp in a basha. Haha. Not bad la. At least I have a little more comfort. This time there wasn a powder bath! Hahas.
During the night, my rifle was being stunned by my SGT... That cost me 1 weekend confinement... :( super sianz... Ugh...
Day 7
Our final day. Morale was high... We packed our stuff early, cover all our trenches. 5bx, breakfast etc.
Hike to old SISPEC for our last event of the camp. The BIC. Battle Inoculation Course... Rifle in hand, stay low all the time... We crawled through the 80m course... Leopard crawl, back crawl... Ugh... so so so tiring... It looked very very near... But crawling was really tiring and slow. GPMG firing live rounds above our heads... As we slid into the last trench, took out our granade, throw at the target. Rush at it and hit it sooooooo hard... It felt shiok... All our anger and frustration, tiredness and discomfort ended that moment...
That was our last event to mark the end of field camp 2006 for Falcon company... We sat the tonner back to our company line and from there it was admin time for us. :)
This 7 days had been tough.... No hp, no comforts, nobody to understand except your buddy beside you. It really made me appreciate my home, my house more. The washing machine is such a great invention... TV, computers etc. are just luxuries...
For the 1st time in 7 days after I on my hp I can't stop smiling. I read all e messages, I felt very very happy to be back to civilization... I'm very happy that i've such wonderful frens. Field camp has a better effect than Church camp I think... I thank God for everything. Really wonderful that God has save us and allowed us alot of comfort. :)
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