Been through Exercise Crocodile this week, I'm really damn scared of the rain liao. Sometimes, we love the rain during training, cuz when there is lightning, it will be CAT 1, and all training must cease and all training troops seek shelter. So, when there's CAT 1, it means resting time for us. However, if we are outfield and it rains, it will be a terrible experience for us, at least for this exercise. As a boatman, my job is to cover safety for the M3G when they are conducting their exercise. In layman terms, i am to stick to their raft in the water to make sure that they are okay. Then as their exercise is overnight rafting, me and my boatman partner have to take turns to man the boat. Tuesday night at 12am we started moving into the water, and i slept first as we took shifts. At around 3am,i woke up and took over till 8am, after which i went to sleep. Then, at 11am, hell happened. It started drizzling. The drizzle lasted a while before it stopped and after a while, it became a full blown rain. Sad. Stuck in our boat, we were drenched even though we had our raincoats on. Drenched and damn cold all the way from Wednesday afternoon till Thursday 5pm, when we finished packing up and went back to bunk. That was one hell of an experience that i dun wan experience. Never had i felt so wet and cold in my life. We even started fire using solid fuel to try to keep warm. Everybody, including our platoon sergeant also huddled around the fire. Argh. Thinking of it still send chills down my spine. The rain lasted for damn long. Start and stop for the whole day, so we had no chance of drying. I brought lots of food there to eat, but in the end, we were so wet and cold that we had no mood to do anything. The best feeling was to sit there and not move. LOL.
Boatman, thats wad i am. Damn unique. In my two years of NS life, i would have been to more Exercises than anyone else. To think that i have already been to an Operation as a private would have put all to shame. I hope that the bloody rain would not occur as such again. Terrible feeling.
Today, went out with angez, noch, lic and devil to sort of celebrate my birthday. Haha. Started quite bad, but turned out okay. Thanks for remembering my birthday and go out eat with me. :c9: is almost dead. Nobody moves liao. OCT and Commandos got no life. So juz too bad. Nothing to say liao.
Feel like going shopping. Buy more clothes, jeans and stuff. Now can book out in civilian liao. No need book out in uniform liao. Yay. I wan get contacts! I think i look better with contacts. Yay!
Thanks lic for taking the pics. ^^
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found sought peace at 22:54.
Thanks lic for taking the pics. ^^