.:. Field Camp .:.
I survived a field camp!
The most highkey event of BMT is over for me liao, hurray x) 5 days in the jungle, doing mission based activities and eating not very delicious food. I got thru all of it. I expected worst of field camp la, as in seriously. From all the stories i heard and such, I definitely mentally expected myself to be suffering alot more during the 5 days. But oh well, tis is my company :)
But I found field camp to be not as bad as what others describe it to be. The things done there were more realistic, in the sense its more like what you would actually apply during war. Just makes it seems much more like Army as compared to a regular camp lo. So ya for it was actually quite enjoyable in that sense, quite heartening too.
Combat rations ma, its edible. Not exactly gourmet food but dosen't taste half as bad as what some describe it out to be, some are actually quite good. And the good about eating fibreless food for 5 days, u dun hv to go to the toilet XD ( yes girls be shocked or watever that i 5 days never go toilet and do business liao haha) and trust me it really helps alot when the toilet point is sooooooooo far.
One thing I find ironic about the field camp, is tat I tink it severly brings down one's physical condition. Number one, its 5 days without any physical training activities at all, like jogging and all. So I am expecting it to be quite detrimental to my stamina and such. We're out there in the field for war, yet we are getting unfitter by the day...how ironic can tat be. Number 2, its like wat my commander said, "You are not shag, just mentally tired". Its true. We do on average about 1 activity a day ba, and the activites are all not strenous, as in it dosen't really stretch you beyond your physical limits. Yet somehow or rather, jus bcos we are dirty, covered with mud and all, we feel super tired. Jus shows how much control the mind has over the body, and how field camp is used to toughen up your mentality. I've done it, 5 days through field camp, what cant I do?
So ya, staying 5 days in the jungle, without any contact with the outside phone, no daily comfort of smsing friends and calling family, no photos to look at (you dunnoe how much looking at the photos pasted on my cupboard mirror means to me), now its finally over. The supposedly most highkey event of BMT is over now. Yet, it feels weird cos I am onli into my fifth week in BMT. When we endedour field camp and returned to company line, we saw new recruits enlisting with their family and gfs. And there we are jus finished our field camp, and it feels oddly just familiar how not long ago we were like them. Hmmm...
Oh well, I'm more than halfway thru my BMT phase, so its just abit to go, tahan abit more, crave abit more, look forward to my block leave abit more and then POP!
Revealed on [8:35 PM]
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