It's been almost 3 months since I've been a full time National Serviceman. In other words, I have lost my freedom for 3 months. These 3 months have been full of ups and downs. My weight, as most of you would have known it, has gone down significantly.
As you can see, I started out at 119kg down to 99kg now. It's great news that I managed to get my weight below 100kg once again, something I never thought would happen again. All the running and exercises definitely helped a lot!
This coming week, I will be going for what would be the most torturous, challenging and grueling event in my whole life, the Field Camp. It is not good news when these 2 words appear adjacent to each other. It is the toughest challenge one can have in BMT.
Just a little more than a week we had our Individual Field Craft lesson which focuses on training us for Field Camp by teaching us how to put on camouflage, fire movement, building basha tents and various other stuffs that we will be doing. This shows how much of an emphasis is done to make sure we can execute our stuffs properly during Field Camp. Field Camp is also when we get to see people's real personalities. When you are worn out and tired, you show your real personality like how irritated you can become when people speak to you or your willingness to help people even though being already tired yourself.
Besides that, discipline in Field Camp will also be the utmost importance. We have to constantly remind ourselves to move fast but in a tactical way, i.e. relaying the message down to our fellow friends and in a quiet manner.
No matter what, I hope it will all go well for us and also the upcoming SITtest which I am also not looking forward to. I once had a brief thought of entering command school but all these training has made me want to forgo the chance. I'd rather live a simple life, but can I?
See you guys when I get out on 2nd December, hopefully I survive.
