Originally posted by Si Geena:
I was there as Coy 2IC when they first promulgated the 24km Route March before Graduation.
The senior commanders are particularly angtsy about calling it POP. We always had to refer to it as Recruit Graduation.
The first time we did the 24 km was as a Night March. We would start around 9pm... i think. Anyway, we marched at night and did a Dawn Parade. Quite a sight, i'll say.
Thereafter, the 24klicks were done in the day time and recs would march into the parade at evening.
Overall, i'll much prefer the night march. But logistically wise, it was always much easier to do the daytime than night.
That was 1998-2000... Not too sure how they do it nowadays.
Si Geena, I was one of the first batch of recuits that passed out from the current P.Tekong BMTC school.
I did what you described, it was so dark I didn't know where I was most of the time and I was so sleeply there is parts of the marching that I still can't remember I guess because I was somehow sleep walking.
I was in Orion coy, which coy was you in.
