Situational Test Reflections
Situational test...somewhat like field camp. Except its not such a hassle because it lasts only 3 days. We took off early for our 12km road march whereby the last 4km was unbearable. Upon reaching reclaimed land, we had to set up bashas and the admin stuff. I was lucky and got to sit in the rover which drove us off to another place to set up the admin tentage.
So day 1 was administrative...we were broken up into our details. I was in detail BRAVO. Had only 2 others from Platoon 4. Well, I got to know a few people in front and behind me. We engaged in small conversations and soon enough, we found out that we had alot of things in common and were talking like buddy'o pals.
My buddy is from platoon 3. He's a nice person and we were pretty co-operative about things so we had no problems getting our stuff done fast. We could remind each other what to pack and whenever I needed to take 5 for a smoke, he would understand.
Day 2 came and we started our mission. First mission was pretty interesting. We had to bomb a bridge to prevent enemy retreatment. There were 6 stations altogether. And the distance between every station is about 1km?. However, the sergeants like to "Tekan" us by asking to run to the next station or leapord crawl or fireman lift someone to the next station. I remember carrying one of the guys for about 200m plus to the next station. Really shack-a-doodles man. ( REALLY TIRED )
Interesting side missions like building a bridge to cross a lake. There were a few kinds of people in my detail. Some were co-operative, some werent so co-operative. Like every detail, theres bound to have people who are like that. Everyone got a chance to be IC and 2IC...However, i felt that sometimes, people like to do things the complicated way when it can be done like with a snap on a finger. My asscessor is a pretty nice person. He had an interview with me at the end of the day and asked about my plans after BMT. I told him this, like it or not, i have to go through 2 years of army. So why not just make the best out of it? And he keeps nodding and writing down stuff which i have no idea what. The day ended and we had outfield cooking with our own platoons. After that was pretty much OTOT and we "LEPAK" 1 corner to do our stuff.
Day 3 started, this time round we woke up earlier. Packed our bashas and went off for our road march. After doing 12km with FBO. 2km with SBO is like chicken feet. Our mission for the day is to rescue a hostage in a 4x4 m room with a locked window and surrounded by an electric fence. Its actually kinda funny cuz once we reached that station, there are supposed to be allied forces to help us and they could only hold on for 20mins?. I mean whatever the case is...The soles of our boots are made of rubber and rubber is NOT a conductor of electricity. So why do we have to build some structure to climb into the cell instead of just walking over? Climb in, carry out the hostage if he isnt wearing boots or something.
We spent like 20mins doing a 5min job... But oh wells, we played by the rule that says anything that touches the electric fence will get destroyed. So yea...
In the end, we had to grade our peers and such. Overall i find situational test more relaxing, its just the terrain again. Loads of creepy crawlies around. I had a bloody earthworm or whatever inside my pants. I had no idea how the hell it crawled through my garters but it did anyway and i threw the thing out. But in the end of the day, we left campsite happy. Made loads of new friends not only from my detail but from others and thats what made everything worthwhile.
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