In Camp Training

Just completed 2 weeks of high key ICT. After 2 weeks .. Release from army and back to civilian life. I can wake up late everyday and don't need to book in camp so early! FINALLY =)

Well ICT was not as dreadful as I imagined it to be. It was kind of fun actually, meeting up with friends and laughing over the silly things we did when we were in full time national service (NSF). The best part is that during ICT, we (the NS men) can just take our own sweet time (the army term used to describe this is "ba long long") to do things and joke around with everyone else, including the commanders. Everyone is one big happy family, so unlike NSF days where we get punished for being slow. Basically NS man = KING and HECK CARE .. haha.

The only down side was that our activities were quite packed and tiring, unlike some other units who are actually quite slack during ICT. On our very first day, IPPT was held in the afternoon and amazingly I managed to get silver, which is a huge improvement from last year. This means another extra $200 in addition to my NS pay =)

Yeap, other than that, we also had 3 days of range where we tried the combat shoot (basically it consists of random targets and we can cross-fire into other lanes) for the first time. It was one of my best performance in range ever, in which I only missed 4 shots out of a total of 30. However, as we need the whole detail (group of 6) to perform well to achieve marksman award, our detail did not get marksman award as we had 2 'bobo' shooters .. haha (but anyway no one in the company got marksman award).

Other activities included a mask run, MOPP 4 route march, and equipment training. For those who are wondering, my unit is CBRE (Chemical Biological Radiological Explosive) Defence Group. So MOPP 4 actually refers to wearing the whole protective suit with the mask on.

Now that ICT is finally over, I am beginning to miss some parts of it .. can you believe it? Well, I guess I have to wait another 1 year for my next ICT. In the meantime, I should just get back on with my civilian life.