Share your most 'cock' up missions
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Don't know if this is considered a mission, but there sure was a cockup - by PTIs during my ICT in mid-80s (a few years after my ROD).
Anyway, we were in ARTC Amoy Quee Camp for IPPT during ICT and at our last station, the 2.4km killer (at least to me - after a few years of sedentary civy life). At the end point, a whole BIG group of us were bunched up running towards a PTI who was issuing number tags corresponding to the timing for the run. Another PTI had a timesheet with serial number on a column and he was supposed to write down the time in another column when the PTI who was issuing the tag say "Up". After all participants completed, we were supposed to take the tag and report our names to the PTI.
When the bunch reached the end point, the PTI could not issue the tags on time, and out of desperation, threw the tags on the ground leaving the participants to pick them up themselves. (It could be that he dropped the tags accidentally). As you can imagine, the numbers were no longer in sequence. I was one of those guys at the end of the bunch and I got a number that was earlier than someone way in front of me. I knew that I failed because I was keeping time myself.
Because of the cok-up, many who passed had number tags with big numbers. Of course there was much protest that they should be passed - including me and a few who failed :-)
Anyway, good news for all of us - nobody failed because of the 2.4. Heng ahhh, otherwise had to spend time in RT. -
huh u not replying about this meh??Originally posted by bcoy:I'm refering to the Div. ex in 1991. What are you talking about?
a) u mean urs is 1991 ex mousedeer and the screw up is what u explainedOriginally posted by 12qwaszx:anyone here involved in Ex MouseDeer in 2001? it was a Division ex. and heard it was a BIG screwup.
b) u saying his big 2001 screw up is exact the 1991 one???
me blur already lah.. -
There was an exercise Mousedeer back in 2001. My unit was involved with it. I didnt join though cos i downgraded just a month before it.
But i did hear from my company mates that it was a screw up.
What kind i'm not sure though.
Anyway every mission always has screw ups in one form or another.. -
Yes, I remember this one. The PTI involved and me were in the same "intake". When he concluded the IPPT, he was fuming mad and complaining all the way. even the 2SIR PTI also kana.Originally posted by dragonstar:Don't know if this is considered a mission, but there sure was a cockup - by PTIs during my ICT in mid-80s (a few years after my ROD).
Anyway, we were in ARTC Amoy Quee Camp for IPPT during ICT and at our last station, the 2.4km killer (at least to me - after a few years of sedentary civy life). At the end point, a whole BIG group of us were bunched up running towards a PTI who was issuing number tags corresponding to the timing for the run. Another PTI had a timesheet with serial number on a column and he was supposed to write down the time in another column when the PTI who was issuing the tag say "Up". After all participants completed, we were supposed to take the tag and report our names to the PTI.
When the bunch reached the end point, the PTI could not issue the tags on time, and out of desperation, threw the tags on the ground leaving the participants to pick them up themselves. (It could be that he dropped the tags accidentally). As you can imagine, the numbers were no longer in sequence. I was one of those guys at the end of the bunch and I got a number that was earlier than someone way in front of me. I knew that I failed because I was keeping time myself.
Because of the cok-up, many who passed had number tags with big numbers. Of course there was much protest that they should be passed - including me and a few who failed :-)
Anyway, good news for all of us - nobody failed because of the 2.4. Heng ahhh, otherwise had to spend time in RT. -
Heard this funny one from my friend...he heard it from a retired LTC..
This LTC was in charge of this particular mission helded at Lim chu kang, which involves three platoons..2 good ones and one bad one...Well, the good forces were supposed to capture this bridge heavily guarded by the enemy. The plan is that, one will attack from the front first and the other will attack the enemy from the back....then overwhelm the enemies and capture the bridge.
The good forces which attacked from the front did something wrong during their moving out..(i think they reached there too slow)so their PC samura the whole thing and they have to go back to where their initial position to start the whole thing all over again..so happened that the signaller forgot to tell the other 2 platoon abt this!
The forces which attacked from behind later on were shocked to find that they were outnumbered by the enemy!(coz the one attacking from the front havent reach yet). So they fought and fought....until dunno how the heck they reach near the HDB blocks....they(the good guys from behind) were so desperate that they started using GPMG, which woke up those who were zzzz in their HDB blocks!
Later on after the exercise, the retired LTC found out abt this from his superior(the people zzz complained abt the GPMG fire) and was told to investigate...hee
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LOL~~~ heck of a wakeup call for ppl on that block
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Ah peks..Fall in in singlet and shorts in 5mins! Fall in!
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Seems wasted if this thread is left alone. Got too many priceless stories here. Want to laugh but must restrain myself here in office.
Got one real-life story from my uncle. Exact origin unknown but a funny one. Not exactly a mission but a training exercise, a night one to be exact. Ok, here goes.....
One night, a particular company was conducting night training in their respective sections. During the training, the section commander decided to check the strength of the section just to be safe. He signalled the second man and whispered "number". And then he waited while the man passed it down the section to the last.
After waiting for some time, no reply came. Section commander puzzled, so decided to try again. He whispered "number" again and the second man dutifully passed it on. Still no reply??
Section commander now worried so decided to do head count himself down the section. One, two, ...., seven. All present. Now section commander pissed off 
and asked last man what message he got. The last man whispered "....". "WHAT!!! NA BEI?!?!?!" 
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shish............the stories here are golden sia......
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can compile and published into a book liao.Originally posted by snk86:shish............the stories here are golden sia......
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woah, hahaha, hey, someone ought to do that man
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hi all,
Back in 94, my coy used to have this training somewhere in Khatib near the golf course. We were deployed among the bushes between the reservoir and nearby hdb flats. It was nearly midnight when we were "contacted", We fired like nobody business and i can hear my gpmg rounds echo through the entire neighbourhood. It was then I noticed some hdb units light up simultaneously as if all just woke up in the morning. While we were collecting the cartridges, we were "contacted" again. Only this time, it's by 4 police cars by the road. Can you imagine the tension we caused! Some folks must have thought some war just started and called the police. My OC with camo and helmet still on, took out his IC and hand it to the officer. Come to think back, I really don't know wtf we were doing in hdb area doing firing. Guess that was the last mission ever conducted at such locations. -
lol....
wonder wad's the reaction of the cops when they saw soldiers in camo walk out to them -
we were tired...sleepy....some mouth open and drooling...at the same time watching OC and police officers in amazed......some boot lickers actually stand behind OC as if to add more pressure...just imagine...couple of soldiers carrying M16s (loaded with blanks) facing police officers who were holding notepads!!...those police officers will remember this incident i m sure...good old days man...
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woah! i guess those police officer's instand reaction would be: "WTF NOT AGAIN!" and then go there chat with the OC abt how bright the moon is that night and how the OC still got his IC with him and how his IC photo looks good/bad....
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last one for the day..zzz...it was a brigade ex doing beach landings on a sat afternoon. Everyone was like super low morale...not until the boatman lowered the ramp that we realised our objective is east coast park!!! after all the charging hooha..while proning down on the beach with our dummy weapons, waiting for the "gap" to open (they were rehearsing serveral times)...i noticed entire east coast park was like chaos...army guys and tents everywhere...sweetened with people and babes bbqing...children playing with water guns..WATERGUNS!! Students playing beach balls... tourist mocking at us...we were miserable..wet...sandy...wearing life jacket like a loose bra..and carrying toy dummy m16s!!! believe me...words cannot do justice for that day...dunno whether to laugh or swear...even till now...
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I remember this one when i was nsf:
I kana Bn recce ex. and me and the driver (a reservist) decided to tuang a bit. so the driver drove both of us to east coast park hawker centre (all the way from lentor ave !) to waste some time there .... the logic being the further away the better.
so we tuang for about 2 hours and then went back to the car park ... and woo behold, the rover's battery went flat. nabei lah ... this time sure kana one.
and then ..... another rover bearing the Provost badge drove into the car park and parked next to us. wah nabei big lah .... life cannot be worse. but the reservist damn cool. saw the opportunity and ask the provost to let us jump start. the provost of course agreed and later asked what we were doing here. the reservist said we are on recce ex for beach landing .... and he ... the reservist ... actually asked the provost what HE's doing here. the provost kept quiet and did not want to answer the question ... of course lah ... also another tuang case.
our rover got started and we returned to the training area. i tell you ... reservists sure can keep their cool and think on their toes. kana nsf like me .. sure pee in pants and cry mommie. -
Heard this from my friend.
He was a scout and training in Thailand. While travelling on a truck at night, they stopped for a break. That night was real dark, no moon cannot even see hand in front of you. My friend was worried so he asked the driver can he see in front? The driver say "no". My friend suggested he switch on his headlights but driver not willing (I think not suppose to switch on light or else enemy will see?) Anyway, my friend promise to take responsibility for any action taken against the driver because it was his own idea, so the driver agreed. When the lights turned on, they were absolutely shocked! Right in front of the truck was a huge tree!!
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someone up there must like your friend....Originally posted by jzzy011561s:Heard this from my friend.
He was a scout and training in Thailand. While travelling on a truck at night, they stopped for a break. That night was real dark, no moon cannot even see hand in front of you. My friend was worried so he asked the driver can he see in front? The driver say "no". My friend suggested he switch on his headlights but driver not willing (I think not suppose to switch on light or else enemy will see?) Anyway, my friend promise to take responsibility for any action taken against the driver because it was his own idea, so the driver agreed. When the lights turned on, they were absolutely shocked! Right in front of the truck was a huge tree!! -
wahhahaha... he was really luckyOriginally posted by jzzy011561s:Heard this from my friend.
He was a scout and training in Thailand. While travelling on a truck at night, they stopped for a break. That night was real dark, no moon cannot even see hand in front of you. My friend was worried so he asked the driver can he see in front? The driver say "no". My friend suggested he switch on his headlights but driver not willing (I think not suppose to switch on light or else enemy will see?) Anyway, my friend promise to take responsibility for any action taken against the driver because it was his own idea, so the driver agreed. When the lights turned on, they were absolutely shocked! Right in front of the truck was a huge tree!! -
got other fellas can tell me that in Taiwan, driving a M113 lead for a convoy at night, when the M113 bangs into a tree, the tree had no problems but the M113 and the men in it were all badly banged up. trees can be damn strong.
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in end of 99 my former active unit was undergoing a watercraft conversion course since the company will be ord soon. the course is conducted by the former OC.... a SOB, mother F***er, KNNCBB & etc SAF local scholar then a CPT.......no one in the ccy or even in the bn likes him.... not even the CO..... we were undergoing a night mission ex between the water lanes of tekong and tekong kecil. it was a full moon.... so there was spring tide..... the tide around there is very low indeed...... many of us told that idiot that at this tide, many of our watercrafts will be grounded even the senoir instructors (WOs) had warned him of this..... but being a SOB, mother F***er, KNNCBB & etc SAF local scholar, he god damn think that he is always right and you lower rank personnel are always wrong...... and there we go.... the first few watercrafts were grounded......just like tua peh gong.......sitting there in the low tide.....what a sight indeed.... if the msians were looking, they will have a good laugh........
this is no the funniest part.... then came the climax.... the exercise is been watched by this CO, a COL.... this COL is usually a very nice guy,...... i never seen him lost his cool or temper before.... he was jumping mad...... he shouted at this CPT in front of his former coy... i was out at sea at least 200-300m away.... and i heard someone shouting..... at that time i wonder who got f***ed big time...... it was not until i landed on the beach that someone told me that SOB, mother F***er, KNNCBB & etc SAF local scholar got a good one big time.....
it is sad to know that this SOB, mother F***er, KNNCBB & etc SAF local scholar is some MAJ or even LTC screwing up someone..... i once told my CSM that in the even that war breaks up, i will shoot him first if he were to be my OC or CO.... I rather go for a court martial then to let him march the whole unit to their deaths. -
heard this from my friend from ALPHA coy....
there was one former NSman (LTA)... after ORD for few years, came back and sign on........ was nick name daffy duck because he speaks like one......
this happened when he was still a NSF being a PC.....during a out camp run.... after the run, he was to lead a cheer A_L_P_H_A
but being a daffy duck.... he said:"
Give me an A
Give me a L
Give me a P
Give me an A
what do we have.....
the whole coy shouted ALPA
sensing this goof up, he lead the cheer again.......
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Hello everyone!!! Being loitering around this forum for some time liao and decided to share some incidents......
Not sure whether is this considered a cock up........
We were supposed to have FIBUA Lima Foxtrot and one of our PL SGT was tasked to be the store and ammo ic. He was this young SGT from SAFEC who was known for screws-up and his platoon hates him to his gut.
The whole company with the store tonner and ammo arrived at the FIBUA area waiting for the Lima Foxtrot to commence. Everything swee swee, ahead of schedule.........
After sorting out the stores, he discovers that he did not load the empty magazine into the store tonner. It was still in armskote. Then arrived the OC and discovered the cockup.
Right in full view of the company, the OC slapped the bugger and screwed him upside down......
After the screwing session, he quickly jumps onto the tonner and drive back to our camp to get the magazines.......so the Lima Foxtrot was delayed for 1 hours.... The best thing is during the Lima Foxtrot, while issuing the ammo, he was till joking and laughing.... never took the whole cock-up seriously.....our CSM also commented that he never see our OC so pissed before and throughout his 20 odd years, he never encounter such cock-up before....
Last I heard the PL SGT passed his CSM course and our former OC is now a LTC in the US with the Apache attachment.......
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just a post to kick this thread back to top...so people can share more cock up stories!