Saturday, July 16
Whee booked out of camp for the weekend! Honestly til now, I enjoyed my ICT. The activities are spread out evenly, not too siong, quite good.
Day 1 (11July): Woke up at 5 and met Davin n Thor at MRT station to take cab. Unfortunately there weren't any cabs in sight as we waited for the past half hour! Even calling a cab takes quite some time, and to mkae it worse, the stretch along PIE Tuas was severly jammed! Reached Tanjong Gul Camp at about 8plus, but heng, the in-processing counters were still opened and there were people who were as late as us. Day 1 was basically a day of slacking...
Day 2: We were supposed to be having our mortar drills in the morning, but it rained! So the training was cancelled after all. In the noon, we had hand grenade drills, which I felt was totally unnecessary. Fake grenades somemore. It was like those arcade games, trying to hit the target. And the day ended with a 3-4km route march in the rain. I dunno, but it's like we were waiting and waiting before the rain started, and when we finally started, it rained...
Day 3: Mortar practices and test! Was sooo dismayed at my own performance... tsk tsk... Anything that could possibly went wrong, went wrong. WTH!!
IPPT in the noon, and I got my silver as expected. I almost missed it by 10+ seconds in the running part. Silver = $200 while Pass = $100 only. Gold = $400 tho, but i would need to run 9min 44 seconds or below for my 2.4km, which is totally impossible without regular training. Never mind, the $200 earned in that 2 hours makes my day! That siao eh at the counter almost caused me to faint when he said when a solen face,"Failed". Funny ah.
Day 4: IMT and range zeroing. IMT is basically rifle shooting stimulation exercises in an air-con room. So it's like shooting in arcade lor...
Then later, it's zeroing our weapons, which means aligning our weapons to find the aiming point to shoot the target accurately. Using the SAR21 scope is definitely easier than the M16 frontside tip.
Day5: Actual range. Another chance to earn another $200 if we get marksmanship. We were initially skeptical of getting it as the commanders said it was quite hard, and also, it's a group effort thingy now. Which means 1 bobo shooter could easily bring down his team members' efforts. The day shoot wasnt that hard, but the stupid scoring system sucks! Coz it isn't accurate! And I am complaining here coz I was affected! I got all 20 targets down, confirmed + guranteed, yet the system only recorded me as having only 18! And my teammate, xiong, who confirmed he got only 19 targets down, had his score recorded as a full 20. WTF!
Night shooting was a bit tricky though, and my score wasn't that perfect. We didn't know our night scores though, but our team got marksman, provided the news is accurate! Yay! But anyway, out of the 16 or so teams, only 2 didn't get it. So it wasn't that hard as we had thought anyway...
I realised that there is a secret passage at the drain at NIE there, which will lead to the live firing area... So close, yet so far away...
Day 6: Booked out! And here I am... Tmr night booking in back again...
Shall upload some pics and more intersting news n happenings at the end of my reservist ba!
