Share your most 'cock' up missions
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wothout disclosing too much, let's share some of our most cocked up missions you have experienced.
Let me start ...
story 1:
my platoon was on fighting patrol. encountered an 'enemy' seciton in our area of ops. set up hasty ambush. sprung ambush on enemy that turned out to be a section of medics on topo exercise. so we lanlan wasted blanks and flashes and moved on. less than 15 minutes later, we heard another ambush being sprung. turned out that the same medic section was ambushed again by another platoon.
story2:
I was on listening post duty. saw a white body within my area around 4am odd. could not distinguish whar it was. asked my 2i/c to come over and both of us blur blur. after 5 minutes (becos we did not have NVD), my 2i/c shouted for authentication. No answer and we stand2 and engaged enemy. turned out to be a white dog with patches of black spots on its head. the whole platoon had to move out and find another spot to camp because of our engagement.
story3:
safincos days. was on fighting patrol. section kana engaged and was in disadvantage position. was suppose to do a fire and withdrawal. for some gung ho reason the section cmd shouted for charge. the problem was that we were in a 1 up position (9 man section - 3 man group) and the other 2 groups did not hear him. then to make matters worse, only the section cmd charged into the enemy ... with a jammed rifle. the instructor was laughing so much that he called off the engagement. the enemy still blur blur what happened ... of how only 1 guy was charging at them.
story4:
ever do trench digging with the enemy company only 50m away from you? it happened to me. i think becos the training schedule and booking of the training area all cocked up. so the enemy company was within ear shot of us. so we carried out fighting missions within a 50m radius ... cock lah ...
story5:
fibua village ... out of the whole platoon, only 6 guys could clear the wall before entering the fibua area. the rest were like flies on the wind screen. sigh ... PC also give up. OC also give up WITS suggestion was to include ladders into fibua missions. are they doing it yet ? -
Originally posted by vleelee:wothout disclosing too much, let's share some of our most cocked up missions you have experienced.
Let me start ...
story 1:
my platoon was on fighting patrol. encountered an 'enemy' seciton in our area of ops. set up hasty ambush. sprung ambush on enemy that turned out to be a section of medics on topo exercise. so we lanlan wasted blanks and flashes and moved on. less than 15 minutes later, we heard another ambush being sprung. turned out that the same medic section was ambushed again by another platoon.
story2:
I was on listening post duty. saw a white body within my area around 4am odd. could not distinguish whar it was. asked my 2i/c to come over and both of us blur blur. after 5 minutes (becos we did not have NVD), my 2i/c shouted for authentication. No answer and we stand2 and engaged enemy. turned out to be a white dog with patches of black spots on its head. the whole platoon had to move out and find another spot to camp because of our engagement.
story3:
safincos days. was on fighting patrol. section kana engaged and was in disadvantage position. was suppose to do a fire and withdrawal. for some gung ho reason the section cmd shouted for charge. the problem was that we were in a 1 up position (9 man section - 3 man group) and the other 2 groups did not hear him. then to make matters worse, only the section cmd charged into the enemy ... with a jammed rifle. the instructor was laughing so much that he called off the engagement. the enemy still blur blur what happened ... of how only 1 guy was charging at them.
story4:
ever do trench digging with the enemy company only 50m away from you? it happened to me. i think becos the training schedule and booking of the training area all cocked up. so the enemy company was within ear shot of us. so we carried out fighting missions within a 50m radius ... cock lah ...
story5:
fibua village ... out of the whole platoon, only 6 guys could clear the wall before entering the fibua area. the rest were like flies on the wind screen. sigh ... PC also give up. OC also give up WITS suggestion was to include ladders into fibua missions. are they doing it yet ?
safincos time shud be quite long ago.
and yes ladders are almost SOP for fibua ops now.
will put in mine when i reach home 2nite.
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LOL. This isn't a mission.. but it sure as hell is funny.
Location, P. Tekong. One of the field camp locations.
Particular company of recruits were doing their field camp.
Some illegal immigrants were fooled that tekong was Singapore and landed there, stuck and hungry. Desperate for food... they saw the company's campsite in the middle of the night to surrender. And they approached there until a recruit on guard duty spotted them, and gave them the usual "HALT" bullshit.
The illegal immigrants were discovered by this recruit, with an empty M-16. They didn't even have blanks.
Imagine if these desperate immigrant's intention was not to surrender? But to steal food? Perhaps some recruits would have been injured in the struggle that ensued.
Hmmm then again, i would have gladly given my crappy combat rations to them and help me finish them by the next morning. -
Originally posted by Shotgun:LOL. This isn't a mission.. but it sure as hell is funny.
Location, P. Tekong. One of the field camp locations.
Particular company of recruits were doing their field camp.
Some illegal immigrants were fooled that tekong was Singapore and landed there, stuck and hungry. Desperate for food... they saw the company's campsite in the middle of the night to surrender. And they approached there until a recruit on guard duty spotted them, and gave them the usual "HALT" bullshit.
The illegal immigrants were discovered by this recruit, with an empty M-16. They didn't even have blanks.
Imagine if these desperate immigrant's intention was not to surrender? But to steal food? Perhaps some recruits would have been injured in the struggle that ensued.
Hmmm then again, i would have gladly given my crappy combat rations to them and help me finish them by the next morning. so wat happened to the illegal immigrants? -
didnt report? tekong so easy get in?Originally posted by Shotgun:LOL. This isn't a mission.. but it sure as hell is funny.
Location, P. Tekong. One of the field camp locations.
Particular company of recruits were doing their field camp.
Some illegal immigrants were fooled that tekong was Singapore and landed there, stuck and hungry. Desperate for food... they saw the company's campsite in the middle of the night to surrender. And they approached there until a recruit on guard duty spotted them, and gave them the usual "HALT" bullshit.
The illegal immigrants were discovered by this recruit, with an empty M-16. They didn't even have blanks.
Imagine if these desperate immigrant's intention was not to surrender? But to steal food? Perhaps some recruits would have been injured in the struggle that ensued.
Hmmm then again, i would have gladly given my crappy combat rations to them and help me finish them by the next morning. -
Story2 is priceless.. laugh till my sides almost spilt.
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story 6 : ... just remembered
during my days as safincos instructor ...
there were a few topo exercises to cover ... ex. tenderfoot, nighthawk, etc ...
so the initiation one was tenderfoot ... 35k by day, 19k by night.
it was not the trainee section i was covering but my friend's. his story was a classic. that time we just joined 'B' company as instructors-in-training and were attached to the staff sgts to observe the training. from time to time we were given the chance to take over the training sessions as some kind of on-job-training.
well, in ex tenderfoot, the friend of mine kana to man the command post for the exercise and during the night phase, 1 of the sgts got tired and asked him to cover his section for the last 2 check points. wah ... happy lah ... go run around with the section in ulu sembawang in the night and act like damn garang like that. topo by running and adrenaline. then ... wah ... turned out that the section was actually lost. they missed the last check point and actually had to back track to find it. but my friend was trying to lead them to the next one. so lanlan, had to back track 2 check points (about 8k) in the night and to make it worse, because the lobo manning the check point thought that the ex, was over (becos my friend when he reached the next check point reported in so the command post thought his was the last one), the lobo packed up the check point and returned to camp with the medic. the poor section ended up searching for nothing and ... and... believe it or not ... my friend and the section got so disoriented that they got lost. really bang balls. all of us were back in camp by 1am and by the time we washed up and lock arms, were in bed by 2am. my friend and that section came back at 5.30am ... just in time to fall in for 5bx and breakfast. -
whats safincos?
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safincos = pre sispec. many instructors were rangers and israel trained. in fact my arty course had a safinco instructor who was marine trained with 82 airborne .... and that was way back in 89'.
it should mean ... saf infantry nco school
there's even a song some more ... every morning we had to shout it out ... yah ... really shout it out.
saf infantry nco school we come
soldiers of every creed and race
lah lah lah lah we will become (sorrie ... forgot a bit)
leader of 8 man lead the race
safincos, ncos we are the ncos
safincos, ncos lah lah lah lah lah lah
fearlessly we lead the fight
we stand up for our rights
train to lead by day and night
we will strive for greater heights
anyone knows the complete lyrics ? i type also get goose pimples.
sispec got song or not? OCS sure got song ... how does it go?
ok another story ....
was preparing for another mission in the infamous pasir laba camp safincos 'f-ing echo' company. it was about 5am and the tonners were coming into our compound. the trainees were preparing and most were in the loo shitting and brushing teeth (incidently we were using the vietnam war method of eating 1/2 jar of peanut butter before going to mission so we dun need to dig shit hole in the jungle). the old echo company was the only company that was using the 2 story long house method. then from out of no where ... BANG !!! the building shook .... wah ... really shook. the whole world woke up and saw the tonner slam into the building. the canopy of the tonner was ripped and the 2nd floor of the ocmpany building was shattered (you see e company was built of wood lah). poor section 2 had to split up and bunk with section 1 and 3 for 2 weeks before repairs were done. wah ... OC screw the MTO and the driver ... then went into the mission bad mood ... man ... we never realise that a tonner doing a slow reverse can have so much 'power'. -
the previous incarnation of sispecOriginally posted by kY|e-_-o:whats safincos? -
I was in E Company Safincos '91. Didn't know that the bunk was torn up...heheh. Somemore I was Section 2 so that should have been my bunk.Originally posted by vleelee:
was preparing for another mission in the infamous pasir laba camp safincos 'f-ing echo' company. it was about 5am and the tonners were coming into our compound. the trainees were preparing and most were in the loo shitting and brushing teeth (incidently we were using the vietnam war method of eating 1/2 jar of peanut butter before going to mission so we dun need to dig shit hole in the jungle). the old echo company was the only company that was using the 2 story long house method. then from out of no where ... BANG !!! the building shook .... wah ... really shook. the whole world woke up and saw the tonner slam into the building. the canopy of the tonner was ripped and the 2nd floor of the ocmpany building was shattered (you see e company was built of wood lah). poor section 2 had to split up and bunk with section 1 and 3 for 2 weeks before repairs were done. wah ... OC screw the MTO and the driver ... then went into the mission bad mood ... man ... we never realise that a tonner doing a slow reverse can have so much 'power'.
Cock up mission:
I was assigned as Platoon Sergeant for a mission. However, the platoon was added with another section (they missed that training so making up for it). So being the PS, I was moving out with section 5. The Platoon Commander, a staff sergeant, led us around the training area. But I think we got a bit lost or he took us on a really roundabout way. Along the way, it was planned (didn't know it until later) that the PC would be taken out i.e. casualty, and I would assume command for an assault up a slope. unfortunately, since we were already walking around for a while, most of the guys were shack out. Then when a halt was given, everyone just took cover and didn't pass the message down to me (at section 5) to come up to the front.
Since no one passed the message down, I simply move out with the section 5 and eventually got separated as they were assigned the GPMP firebase role.
from the small knoll, I saw them i.e. the 4 sections, charge up and down and up and down the slope for at least 3-5 times.
When we regrouped, I found out that I had cocked up my assessment as I was not there to lead the platoon. Somemore, the PC got fed up and start punishing the rest of the gang by making them, do all the charging (then samulah!)
After being verbally abused, I was then assigned the medic role i.e additional gear of the medic load to do another patrol. Luckily, the thunder clouds came and the additional training was cancelled. (our OC was around).
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oh hello fellow 'f-ing echo'.
Yah ... section 2 of the 2nd floor was torn up. and becos of the impact, the roof started leaking real bad and during heavy rains, the roof will leak and all of us have to drag the beds to the middle of the bunk. the water was like ... white water rafting down ...
and u can imagine the OC's office and the PC's office down stairs ... all have to be evacuated to ANTW (advance NCO trg wing behind. we were all thinking ... man ... this is worse than tekong camp1.
oh while u were there, did you kana the infamous staff Raja (before defaulters parade, he'll make us do 100 counts of 8 of star jumps or 150 push ups - we can choose. and he'll end the defaulters when at least 2 fellas faint from the tekkan) and Lt. Tan (the micro muscle, ultra maniac, super fit and loves to torture) ranger officer? I can remember Lt Tan. 1st day only and he ordered his whole platoon to fall in. we were green from tekong and fell in a little slow. he not happy and asked all of us to run up and throw our cupboards from the 2nd floor down !! and then bring up the mess to stand by cupboard.
but staff raja, staff cb tab and lt. Tan are really damn solid during missions. you really learn the real art of patrolling and fighting and not just the theory part. and they also sleep on the floor and eat the same crap as us during missions. but back in camp ... woah ... better avoid them like anything. -
oh another one.... this one was kind of international ...
we were hosting the 5 powers defence exercise and the whole of safti was involved. my company / section ... because that batch we won almost all awards ... best trainee, best section, best pt, etc etc.... so we were chosen to be the demo section to some Marines.
we realised that drink only coke and cannot eat chee cheong fun in the morning. but that's their problem.
anyway .....
2 demos ... 1st demo was fighting patrol and hasty ambush. ok ... nothing really went wrong but ... but when we were reorg after the ambush and moved out to the next checkpoint, the Marines got lost. funny leh ... becos they were talking to the CO and all that and by the time they finished, my section was already way ahead. so those 2 fellas ran after us into the foliage and got lost.
demo 2 ... fibua ... my section rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed and even had acting and all that. it really looked pretty good on camera. this was to demo to the FPDA people ... wah high profile. we had brand new rifles and used M14 carbine and NVG and all that ... real stylo milo.
ok ... demo start. music on ... MC was describing what we were doing. Then ... sigh ... ok ... sect cmd ordered grp 1 to clear room. prepare to clear room, check, enemy inside and so prepare thunder flash. ok ... check and throw thunder flash ....
and then .... sigh
before thunder flash exploded, the fella was so nervous that he storm the room. try to picture this. .... he 'chiong' in and the thunder flash banged and then we blur blur .... chiong in. The MC was like stunned for a while. then went on saying the script. we fellas in the room were already laughing and trying not to make too much noise.
Our OC .... he give up .... -
lmao!
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Originally posted by vleelee:
Hello to you too.
[b]oh hello fellow 'f-ing echo'.
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I got another staff...Rajah was in another platoon, so was CB Tan. I remember them cos one of my kualan fren got CB Tan and this fren was very nuah. But after being worked over by CB Tan, he could fly and prone like a pro.
*Whistle* Flying prone position. hahah.
Rajah was a bit switch off by the time I was there. My staff was also abit off (maybe becos we were the support batch and not infantry). But occassionally, someone still can piss them off and we really caught hell from them.
For my side, I was lucky on one of the recce mission. I got another staff who came back from disruption.
We were doing a recce but since training area is so small, different platoons tend to meet everywhere.
We were crossing a small river when we encountered another section also doing patrol. instead of "being contacted", both section continued moving (criss crossing each other's line) as if the other group were invisible. During debrief, our instructor "congratulated" me for being so able to act blur. Somemore, we are still move like a real patrol style etc. Had a bloody good laugh after that. -
Mine was defense ex in Tekong. After 2 days & nites of trench digging, we set off for another mission on the 3rd day. However, we (84 sect) were told that we may be acting enemies. So, we left without our 84 guns. It's only after crossing path with the trainers that we realised the big mistake. That was after walking for about an hour. As usual, our sect cmdr was screw upside down. We walked/ran back to our trench to carry our guns and rushed back to join our coy for the mission.
later on, we also found out that another coy didn't bring along their ET and whole coy was made to samulah. This was one of the most cock up Bn exercise and we were ranked bottom among the brigade. -
Sispec, BSLC
Open-terrain topo exercise in LCK.....My buddy was sick so I was pair up with another guy from the same section... He's a good guy, friendly, hardworking (did own pullups during free time) and good attittude. I was relief and happy comparing him with my bad-mouthing joker buddy...
Day time was happening but too long to talk about it here... so the exercise carried on till night and we continue on our night Topo.Dunno want to say we garang or we cock, we bashed all the way hoping to cross to the other side faster...BIG MISTAKE
It seemed so near in the map....only 500m but we've been bashing for 3 hours to no available, it's like the forest ate us up (dun laugh, it's only our 2nd topo that time in our military life)...
We were tired, thirsty and our specs fog up during the heat and sweat with the cold night. I tried to encourage my partner that we're near. In the dark canopies of the vegetation we saw white exposed patches ahead and I told my partner that it must be the road. We bash towards the "bar patch" only to find a large field of grass and some more thick vegetation ahead. This carry on for a few fields...
My partner, who took point, was bashing cutting away the thick vegetation and suddenly he freaked out and shouted "AAAAAHHHHHH! I DON"T WANNA WALK ANYMORE!!!!" He just sits there and doesn't want to move. I panicked and tried to calm he down and ended up scolded by him..."Fark! it's your fault! We're lost!!" This is the first time I hear him scold the F word in BMT/SISPEC....
I radioed back to HQ and was told to back track so I took point and bash all the way back...After we manage to get out, my partner then started to apologize for scolding me saying he felt remorse.....Oh that a sh*t day!!
I felt i was kindda responsible that I stress him out......cos later he showed sign sof stressing up and was constantly seeking consultation....he pass out SISPEC and proceeded to Armor Commander course...but OOCed and was never heard of by anyone I knew..... felt bad....
I knew I farked him up!!
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err.. dun think one incident took him out lor.. he prob not realli mentally strong to begin wif. dun be too hard on urself!Originally posted by Silenthunter:Sispec, BSLC
Open-terrain topo exercise in LCK.....My buddy was sick so I was pair up with another guy from the same section... He's a good guy, friendly, hardworking (did own pullups during free time) and good attittude. I was relief and happy comparing him with my bad-mouthing joker buddy...
Day time was happening but too long to talk about it here... so the exercise carried on till night and we continue on our night Topo.Dunno want to say we garang or we cock, we bashed all the way hoping to cross to the other side faster...BIG MISTAKE
It seemed so near in the map....only 500m but we've been bashing for 3 hours to no available, it's like the forest ate us up (dun laugh, it's only our 2nd topo that time in our military life)...
We were tired, thirsty and our specs fog up during the heat and sweat with the cold night. I tried to encourage my partner that we're near. In the dark canopies of the vegetation we saw white exposed patches ahead and I told my partner that it must be the road. We bash towards the "bar patch" only to find a large field of grass and some more thick vegetation ahead. This carry on for a few fields...
My partner, who took point, was bashing cutting away the thick vegetation and suddenly he freaked out and shouted "AAAAAHHHHHH! I DON"T WANNA WALK ANYMORE!!!!" He just sits there and doesn't want to move. I panicked and tried to calm he down and ended up scolded by him..."Fark! it's your fault! We're lost!!" This is the first time I hear him scold the F word in BMT/SISPEC....
I radioed back to HQ and was told to back track so I took point and bash all the way back...After we manage to get out, my partner then started to apologize for scolding me saying he felt remorse.....Oh that a sh*t day!!
I felt i was kindda responsible and I stress him out......cos later he showed sign of stress up and was constantly seeking consultation....he pass out SISPEC and proceeded to Armor Commander course...but OOCed and was never heard of by anyone I knew..... felt bad....
I knew I farked him up!! -
1) Combined exercise wif foreign country. Both sides team up against aggressor, but their arty fired on their bridage HQ...
2) Was having an exercise using the simulation at pasir laba camp(4got the name)... some guy manning the the heli-insertion flew to the LZ in a straight line thru the enemy ADA...u guess the result when the div comdr got the news he lost his commandos....
3) oso simulation exercise.... some wise guy shot down fighter plane wif MG... cos according to 'specifications', it was within range... needless to say, the air force officer made a lot of noise... -
Unit Ex last year.
Was there as an observer.
RSM ran the ex, planned an arty attack on the Det, and they had to evac all e way down the road to another rally pt.
RSM then set up an ambush to ambush the det when they came back along that road.
One of the ideas used for this ex was the use of realistic "battle sounds"
one of the ops spec was in charge of the speaker and laptop used for the sound system, so he crouched in e tall grass along the road to be one of e enemy.
the det came back, and walked very near the ops spec. then the point man saw e "enemy" crouching in the grass. instead of "CONACTED!!!", he turned around and asked the 2LT who was det comd, "Eh Sir, this one count or not?"
there was some confusion as the det comd replied yes it counted, then they did the whole contacted thingy.
unfortunately, when they finally did e charge, the only person they charged was e ops spec, as the rest of the reservists playing opfor was slightly further up the road.
during RSM's AAR, he told the pointman that he got himself and the det killed. and the rest of the det who charged into nowhere got slaughtered by the opfor. -
ATEC msn 1.
whole coy of men stay behind some taiwanese courtyard waiting for tonner to troop lift. Eveyone make alot of noise kao peh kao bu.. then when the father of the house came back, OC/CSM got f*** by him. hahahaha....
Started bashing after 200m+ from start line, h-hour is 3am. But 3am still nowhere near objective, radio comms said Tact. HQ missing... 7am+, finally out of vegetation, on top of a big mountain, see at the foot of the mountain, fighting over liao. FINALLY reached objective at 9am+... totally failed. hahahaha
ATEC msn 2.
Walk from 10am+ until 4pm+, reached a village near the foot of objective, kenna contacted, fight all the way up the village. After clearing the village, my section got instructed to clear a obstacle further up the road... walk with my section for 1/2hr still haven't see the obstacle, instead reached a major road junction with many cars... looked like an idiot, radio back cannot find obstacle, kenna recall back... In the end, the obstacle is at the other side of the objective, which the Bn spent the next 5hrs clearing before we can go find the obstacle
Coastal hook Ex.
Wait at east coast for RPL, then come cat 1 weather. After the sky cleared up a bit, everyone moved out, but during the mustering of RPLs off the coast, Cat 1 again, everyone lan lan in the rain in the sea, RPL circled about 1 hour+, then decided to go back to east coast. hahaha... back to square 1, then couple of hours later, we finally moved out again -
This one happened during signal nco course.
Supposed to do a final exercise - topo before graduation. Our route is only 30 plus clicks (can't remember exactly). Set out nice and early from Pasir Laba. My team was doing well i.e. first in the group. But when we were finishing and coming to the last check point, we found ourselves staring at this thick vegetation i.e. no check point. Bash and bash, no point, everyone radio back for instructions. PC come in his rover and realised that the check point was planned on paper i.e. didn;t really come to the ground to check. Then say he will create a new check point for us. Bloody cock up. So although he was in the wrong, he had the cheek to ask if we want to give up and take the rover (we were still the first team). Of course, we wanted to finish the bloody thing, so we just ngeh ngeh lai. By the time we finished, I think the actual route became 50klick just becos someone didn;t bother to do a proper check before we started.
The joke was, we were still the first to reach camp stagmont. The other platoon all got lost somewhere in Mandai which was supposedly harder to topo. So in the end, they also sort of "extended" their own routes. -
Funny stories everyone! I had many good laughs...my turn:
Story One: We were practicing heli-exfil at LCK one time after a week-long recce mission. As per standard practice, once the Pumas arrived, we ran towards the helo from a "10 & 2 o'clock" angle. Got this guy in my team who was damn tall and big-sized...he was the SAW gunner. He was the last one to board the chopper since he dropped something from his full pack and went to retreive it. So we could see him running from a short distance away, and the pilot acting guai-lan, turned around and told us to tell that guy to hurry up...
So we shouted "Hurry up", "Faster", "Chop chop", etc....and my teammate came running like mad dog, macam Ben Johnson on 3 doses of steriods, and jumped into the chopper....but he forgot to lower his head, and knocked his head (lucky got helmet) at the top of the cabin compartment All we heard was a sudden loud "THUD" and he practically flew backwards towards the grass lying on the ground...panting like gonna die...our jaws also dropped open...my Plt Sgt who happened to be on the same chopper with us shouted "OOI !! Waiting for what?! Go and see if he's ok lah?!!"
I ran out to him (still lying flat on his back, with the full pack to one side and still holding on to the SAW).."ooi XXX, you ok or not?" His reply: "uhh...yeah..I'm fine...thought I saw angels laughing at me (He's Catholic) "
The air crew all laughed like siow....
Story Two: this happened during my Gds ACT. We finally reached the test day of rappelling and headed off to Sembawang Air Base to do it. Being the amateurs we are, (not to mention the initial fear of height) my section was pretty hyped up and scared at the same time when we boarded the chopper. So as usual, the pilot brought the chopper up to the required altitude and we went down in two pairs, each by one door.
If I still remember, the trick is to simply release your braking hand and slide down a bit, so as to clear the doorway, but never to "jump off"...these two jokers in my section were so scared that they won't clear the door that they pushed off hard to swing out. What happened was typically comical...since the downwash was pretty strong, and that they pushed off, both jokers came swinging towards each other like two colliding pendulums and swung smack into each other. One of the guy's leg managed to kena the other joker's nuts....My OC from above was yelling with the megaphone (not required for him actually) : "HOI !!!! CCB!! WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU ALL DOING!?!!"
Needless to say, the pilot and co-pilot nearly died laughing...becos of those two jokers we kenna guard duty for two weeks....sigh.... -
try to imagine this ....
you are out on a tank hunting patrol only carrying logs on your back. why ?
well, it seems that during our NCO course, our 'Law' tubes made of plastic and filled with sand were to be replaced with the actual used Law tubes. but during the interim period, the trainees were left with no Law tubes.
So during one of the courses in tank hunting, the instructor wanted us to simulate the weight of the tubes and ordered all of us to cut down 2 logs for each of us and string them up with comms-cord.
i tell you ah ... other companies were wondering what kind of new stealth camo weapon that we were carrying that looks 100% naturally blended with the jungle surrounding.
One of the OCs were asking our OC the value add in the training of how logs got included into our arsenal. -
Hi There..found ur website by chance last week..So here is mine cock up mission
Happen last year during our ICT for Patrolling for installation (POI)of Clementi Camp (next to the indutrial park) .AS part of the duites all vehicles were stopped before a stop spikes, an excersie vheicle was acting as a bomb truck and was cordoen off to 1 area, the civilian vehicle (Lexus) immediaelty behind it getting impatient tot the sgt was waving him to go, (actually the guy was asking him to stop). The poor guy in the lexus just step on the gas ..hehe bang the 1st 2 front tire just could take the spikes..the comms was just yelling and the CO was running toward the guard post.The commotion lasted for 1/2 hr as the guy was agruing with the CO and sentries on duties who shld pay..he lost in the the end.. later in the afternoon there was another vehicles and a motorcycles that was also "stopped" in the same way. the latter had to atted by the MO
The next was the unit before us and it happen. Any one working at Clementi Indutrial park? , went for the briefing for POI and the conducting officer (Maj i think) was not at all happy, he keep telling us not to challenge anyone outside the compond, It turns out that the previous units as contacted by the acting enemy outside the camp at 11++pm , the reservist so garang that they chase all the way into the next road and the enemy in turn fire back. Imagine u working late and all of a sudden GPMG and thunderflash..someone call the police and 1 patrol car came, had to call for more cars as they didnt expect to see the firefight..in the end the brigade chief has to come back to camp to settle all this..