end of course
After the live-firing on Mon, we had to clear the basic main range of our stores which resulted in us only reaching our camp at ard 11pm and me getting to bed only at ard 12.30am...really shagged. Luckily, our sgt very nice allowed us to sleep until 6.15am and have breakfast at 6.30(ppl in our unit usually wake up ard 5.15am). After breakfast, we were allowed to carry on sleeping but expected to fall in at 8am to carry out maintainence at the vehicle shed(where our tanks are parked). When I got there, met Min Yang and chatted for a while b4 carrying on with my work(haha). Me and my tank i/c stripped the main gun and after oiling all the small parts, we had lotsa problem assembling them. We spent the whole morn tryin to solve the problem and was very much slower compared to the other tanks. After lunch, another sgt took over and he, wanting to book out as he had to stay back last night, hurried us along and we managed to 'complete' our servicing of the tanks by 3pm. On Wednesday(yesterday), we had to account for the things tt we keep in our tanks(tools necessary for carrying out maintainence or the operation of our guns on the tank). As usual, it was very hard to find everything tt we drew out from the stores. After much searching done by our sgt, we were made to pay $6 each for the lost items(it only totals up to part of the actual price of all the items we lost, but many were unhappy). Today, we had our course debrief and were posted to our respective companies in 46SAR. I was posted to Bronco(B company) where I wanted to be as I mixed well wif the mono-intake ppl from Bronco. As I've expected, the discipline is very very strict. They are the 'garang' company and everything had to be very gd. I heard from other men tt if we din get gold for our IPPT, we'll have to stay back for RT(remedial training). This also applies to SOC! Hai...this means I'll be prepared to stay for RT on Sat(s) for a long long time...I'm not fit enough to get gold and I've nvr managed this feat in my life! Too bad lorz, fitness is greatly emphasised in 46SAR as we're an active combat unit. Another blow to my wkends comes from the fact tt I'm taking part in the marching for this year's NDP! From this wk onwards, I'll be practising drills at National Stadium on Saturday aftnoons. They say our 'burnt' wkends will be reimbursed later on aft NDP and I've resigned to fate lorz(though I believe it'll be quite an experience marching in front of such a big crowd, haha). Our sgt also say we might be riding in tanks for the NDP the following year. All this is due to the fact tt 46SAR won the best armour unit 03/04. The only consoling thing is tt I get a day-off tomorrow because we were deprived of it the last time the whole unit went for the day-off as the tank gunners were attached to SOA and we were involved in the preparations of SAA(Skill At Arms). I'm satisfactorily happy le lorz =P
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