Exercise Coral Sea... a 3-day-2-night field exercise to test on the individual’s ability to lead a small group of unfamiliar ppl to complete a task within the stipulated time frame and available resources. A failure in the exercise will b rewarded with a kick out of the course. If tat mishap falls on me, it’ll meant tat my cousin-in-law and junrong will hafta pay lotsa money...(was it a six or five digit fig?)...if I cant afford to pay the SAF!...shld I b nasty?...hmmm...
Tis exercise happened the day after CMDR Gray Cup...woah...so my main challenge wasn’t actually the ‘test’ but more of how to carry the heavy webbing and field pack, with all my sore muscle for the duration of the exercise...
Well...it turned out tat my worries were redundant. We din march in tat enormous field pack for long...at most was 10 min frm station to station...the exercise was sth like the Sit Test in BMT, but no weapons tis time round, jus ropes and poles. So no worries man, it was a piece of piss. The most physically demanding one was probably a 10 min run on the beach with all my pack...wat wld u do when u cant take it but still wanna b seen putting in effort? Walk when no one see u or act extremely shack out la... I wont wanna break my sore fragile back for tis...
The rest of the stations were pure thinking and actions on the spot. And there were definitely lotsa knotting and lashing done... haha…wat wld the team b like without my superb campcraft skill!...hee...well, an alpine butterfly knot, a huge tent-guy loop and a single commando crawl even hafta come into action somewhere! It was smooth sailing for every1 in my team...everyone did pretty well, me too... haha...we’re jus too good, so no drama there. I cant say the same for other team though...some haf got retestees...a couple of them.
Main take-away from tis exercise—ticks!!! It's almost spring here, lotsa insect are lurking out frm their long winter sleep—moths, giant flies, worms and field ticks especially. Found a tick on me yesterday while showering...YEEKS!!! ...i hope tat’s the one and onli one on me...i’ll b praying hard...amitabha...
Tis exercise happened the day after CMDR Gray Cup...woah...so my main challenge wasn’t actually the ‘test’ but more of how to carry the heavy webbing and field pack, with all my sore muscle for the duration of the exercise...
Well...it turned out tat my worries were redundant. We din march in tat enormous field pack for long...at most was 10 min frm station to station...the exercise was sth like the Sit Test in BMT, but no weapons tis time round, jus ropes and poles. So no worries man, it was a piece of piss. The most physically demanding one was probably a 10 min run on the beach with all my pack...wat wld u do when u cant take it but still wanna b seen putting in effort? Walk when no one see u or act extremely shack out la... I wont wanna break my sore fragile back for tis...
The rest of the stations were pure thinking and actions on the spot. And there were definitely lotsa knotting and lashing done... haha…wat wld the team b like without my superb campcraft skill!...hee...well, an alpine butterfly knot, a huge tent-guy loop and a single commando crawl even hafta come into action somewhere! It was smooth sailing for every1 in my team...everyone did pretty well, me too... haha...we’re jus too good, so no drama there. I cant say the same for other team though...some haf got retestees...a couple of them.
Main take-away from tis exercise—ticks!!! It's almost spring here, lotsa insect are lurking out frm their long winter sleep—moths, giant flies, worms and field ticks especially. Found a tick on me yesterday while showering...YEEKS!!! ...i hope tat’s the one and onli one on me...i’ll b praying hard...amitabha...
2 comments:
aren't ticks supposed to be found on dogs? -_-"
they feeds on blood...do they care who's blood they feed on? NO!!!
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