What are some serious mistake you have made in NS?
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nope...it is stupid...Originally posted by freedom4ever:WTF. drink too much water huh? -
choose the wrong unit
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1) Chose to be a "COMMANDER" during my BMT survey. Ended up now being in the ARMY (when I want to go Air Force or Navy instead).
2) Becoming a combat infantry specialist doing PURELY SIA KANG without any use of my skills in regards to combat infantry fighting, at all. -
just make sure its not reflected on your certificate of service when you ord. a satisfactory conduct cost my fren a potential job.
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LOL! u get to choose?Originally posted by Ogbunwezeh:choose the wrong unit
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Yeah my AO ask me which unit i wanna go, stay at the present unit or go to another unit, i chose the later as its near my house but....Originally posted by Gordonator:LOL! u get to choose? -
U mean satsifactory conduct, employee also hiam ah?Originally posted by crazy monkey:just make sure its not reflected on your certificate of service when you ord. a satisfactory conduct cost my fren a potential job. -
ya.. i think most ppl get good for their conduct.Originally posted by Ogbunwezeh:U mean satsifactory conduct, employee also hiam ah? -
yalo so suayOriginally posted by waliao:Slack sia
u higher chance of malingering cos too used to being slack
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nearly lost my armskote key during COS duty.
Break my camp Unit metal logo to half,
throw away live rounds,
raised the wrong flag hahahaha -
sure anot?Originally posted by blowfish:nearly lost my armskote key during COS duty.
Break my camp Unit metal logo to half,
throw away live rounds,
raised the wrong flag hahahaha -
drove my FH2000 too fast(it was starting to rain) and estimate the height wrongly, therefore smashing the tow-hook of the 7 tonner with a big bang, but minimal damage.
the above incident happen right infront of the RSM which was lecturing a whole battlion on new trainee-gunners.
The worst thing : just before the lecture, he asked me to park another gun infront of the trainees and told the trainees this "you people see that gunfitter, he one of the most steady technician in our unit, anything about the gun you can ask him also" -
wow...thats bad man...But this also teaches the trainees one thing, as long as u are in SAF..U are never safe from anything...Originally posted by zanshin:drove my FH2000 too fast(it was starting to rain) and estimate the height wrongly, therefore smashing the tow-hook of the 7 tonner with a big bang, but minimal damage.
the above incident happen right infront of the RSM which was lecturing a whole battlion on new trainee-gunners.
The worst thing : just before the lecture, he asked me to park another gun infront of the trainees and told the trainees this "you people see that gunfitter, he one of the most steady technician in our unit, anything about the gun you can ask him also" -
Does standing over a couple of blocks of C4 and having a screaming match with a captain with less than 10 cm of burning fuse count?
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Imagine a 7-Ton Mann truck going too fast and banging into the M71 155 gun in front. Damaged the pneumatic rammer of the gun (I was told damage cost 10k).Originally posted by zanshin:drove my FH2000 too fast(it was starting to rain) and estimate the height wrongly, therefore smashing the tow-hook of the 7 tonner with a big bang, but minimal damage.
It was during a battalion exrcise night deployment after it had rained and in a muddy deployment area. We were rushing to deploy on time and my driver drove too fast (guess its partly my fault because I did not slow him down).
My driver ended up 7 days DB, but I luckily escaped punishment.
Anyway, I had made more serious mistakes, and I had seen other fellow commanders make other serious mistakes as well. Fortunately, none of us were punished - funnily, the RSM was the one almost charged for one of our mistakes. -
Live-Firing Area D, sometime in 2001.
This one happened not to me but a spec in my platoon while I was having field pioneer course demolitions package. Some of us were setting up the demolition charges (block 3 and some PETN) and this spec started playing around with the electric ignitor to see if it works (you need to squeeze it about 3 or 4 times before there is sufficient voltage to blow the charges). He forgot to ensure that the ignitor was disconnected from the demo chain. Luckily the OC was near him and knocked it out of his hand before scolding the daylights out of him. CSM wanted to charge but I think the OC didn't press charges. However he was doing COS for a bloody long time. He was later condemned as admin spec for the rest of his tour of duty. One or two more squeezes and some 5 or 6 of us would have become minced meat.....The things some people do -
Haha, gt caught doing guard duty prowling with motorbike, and so suay my RSM drove past me... My partner still argue with him tat he has a backache... haiz.... Keep quiet less suffering... In the end both gana 14 extras... Sux...
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- Speeding in camp when speed limit was 15kph. Think I was doing 25-30kph in the minibus. Kena 3 extras.
- Navigate wrongly during topo exercise. Ended up driving the Merz 3-tonner into a muddy pit. Heng use all my strengths to drag the 3-tonner out of the pit. -
OOhhh...Thoreldan is so happening,...Originally posted by thoreldan:for me
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Brought whole bunch of COS key to tekong when my unit having exercise there. Later at night the Camp DO need to arm the armskote, realised key not around. I have to borrow money from my OC to take cab from the ferry terminal back to camp
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Lost one mag of 30 live rounds for my platoon live-firing (night) back in sispec. realised it only at the FUP, waiting to assault. 
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huh? when ord got certificate meh? how come i never have abt 10yrs back when i ord? or do u mean rod? but if rod, then ur friend apply job means ur friend 40+ apply job ahh?? confused...Originally posted by crazy monkey:just make sure its not reflected on your certificate of service when you ord. a satisfactory conduct cost my fren a potential job. 
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raise the flag upside down - manage to reticy in time
operating forklift then rammed down the fencing of my unit - no punishment as forklift got some problems
rammed down the door of warehouse using forklift due to wrong estimation - OC kind enuf to cover as i attach to his unit to help out only
my buddy rammed down two crates of 155mm round on board the navy LST tank deck. imagine 12 * 155mm round rolling on the ground, everyone running like hell. luckily without firing pin it will not go off. whole section kena screw till upside down by OC n navy XO. heng no punishment oso coz we r the only company tat can load a ship. -
1. You mean they store 155 rounds in crates of 6 now? You sure? It used to be that 155 rounds are palleted, standing upright 16 (I think) to a pallet.Originally posted by IcedLemon:my buddy rammed down two crates of 155mm round on board the navy LST tank deck. imagine 12 * 155mm round rolling on the ground, everyone running like hell. luckily without firing pin
2. 155 rounds don't have or require firing pins. What you mean is that they are not fuzed (or fused - take your pick).
3. You imply that without fuze, the 155 rounds won't detonate - wrong. Explosive can go off by sympathetic detonation. However, you are correct that unfuzed rounds are quite safe to handle. -
ord.certificate of service. everybody got wat.Originally posted by nightzip:huh? when ord got certificate meh? how come i never have abt 10yrs back when i ord? or do u mean rod? but if rod, then ur friend apply job means ur friend 40+ apply job ahh?? confused... -
either 6 or 8 n i not sure tat is crates or pallet. standing upright, only top n bottom secured. as for how will the round go off, dunno.....i not ammo tech trainedOriginally posted by dragonstar:1. You mean they store 155 rounds in crates of 6 now? You sure? It used to be that 155 rounds are palleted, standing upright 16 (I think) to a pallet.
2. 155 rounds don't have or require firing pins. What you mean is that they are not fuzed (or fused - take your pick).
3. You imply that without fuze, the 155 rounds won't detonate - wrong. Explosive can go off by sympathetic detonation. However, you are correct that unfuzed rounds are quite safe to handle.
my fren is gunner n he told me tat when they unload rounds from the tonner they juz throw it down when they r 2 tired. -
Realesing a soldier who was on SOL without checking his for 11b while being Guard Comd.
Losing a 732 headset during exercise cos the wire got cut off in the middle of the night without me realising it. (only the PTT was left hanging to the 732.)