Saturday, 22 September 2007
Final Exercise: Exercise Shark
It has been 5 weeks since i came into 35SCE Boat Company to start my training to become a boatman. My 7 weeks Boatman Course is now finally reaching an end and the only thing that is now standing in my way is the final summary exercise of wad we had learn over this 5 weeks or so. Surely, it was not easy, but now that its coming to an end, i will just do my best. Exercise shark will be very tough, both physically. So, i am actually dreading it. On a summary, Exercise Shark will start this Monday and end this Wednesday. On Monday, in the day, we will be preparing the stores and equipment required for the exercise, then around evening, we will set off to our field deployment site, where we will dig our shellscrape, stay on alert, have stand-two, camouflage vehicle, creating an outfield base overnight. So, no need to sleep liao. Thats crazy. On Tuesday morning, we will break camp and proceed to launch our boats. Destination, East Coast Park. Near the Bedok jetty area as i heard. Once there, we will have our coastal hook operation, a simulated operation of dropping infantry into enemy land from the sea, where we beach in an the coast. Never sleep the night before, we will surely be like half dead liao. Once we done our Coastal Hook operation nice nice, we will then get to rest and sleep for a while in the afternoon, before we have a night navigation lesson at night, learning at how to look at the beacon and offshore bouys, and also the lights of the ships. Wad the masthead lights mean we have already covered in the lecture, but how to see them we will learn then. At around 12am or 1am at night, we will then proceed back to camp, reaching at estimated 6am in the morning. After delaunching and keeping everything, we will then pang kang. End of the summary exercise. Once i finish the summary exercise, i am as good as completed my course liao. Waiting only for the official pass out, which will happen only during the next week.
This week, i just had a field deployment exercise. It sucks, digging of shellscrape and all. One thing about being on alert sucks. Alert means cannot sleep, must prone there and be alert in case of enemy attack. Difficult la. Sure sleep one. Sleep get caught we will sure kenna. PC say if get caught will be confined for the weekend to paint the platoon office. Haha. Next week, during the Exercise Shark hope that i dun sleep and get caught.
Anyway, this weekend i better rest well. So that i won't be so tired for my Exercise Shark. Hope to share with you how fun and well my exercise shark went. Heard from the seniors that this exercise will be the most fun one we will do during our course and it will also be the most tiring one.
Cal
found sought peace at 13:58.
