BMT field camp over!
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New accesory packOriginally posted by tlwa:tuna and ribena? new combat ration issit?
Can NESCAFE, packet RIBENA, choc chip cookies, etc. -
you sure?Originally posted by Ponders:Weird you school 1 or school 2?
School 2 CO will never give such welfare like sleeping under a concrete shelter or in training shed unless CAT 1 whether.
School 2 CO also do not endorse rifle stealing. Although OCs still conduct this secretly.
Anyway, good that you took the entire field camp positively and enthu for somemore but keep in mind that field camp is only the tip of ice berg...
btw, at night no CAT 1 pls, it is up to OC whether they want to give welfare or not. We did manage to sleep in training shed at sanyongkong site because of rain. -
NopeOriginally posted by cornyfish2000:Is the chicken chestnut rice still in the field rations?
Nowadays we get
Chicken Pongtay Rice
Oriental Seafood Noodle (crabstick)
Chili flake glutinous rice
Peranakan chicken dumpling
Cabbage rice
Pasta with shredded chicken
Pasta with tomato basil sauce
to name a few.. accessory pack, some get the new ones, my platoon got stuck with the old one for field camp AND SIT test -
first of all, thanks for taking the effort to chronicle your field camp experience here! many others have come to ask about field camp. think this is a good guide for them!Originally posted by crimson soldier:First day- 8km route march to a rubber plantation. Set up bashars, do some pushups and crunches, dismantle bashars, do some more pushups and crunches and set up bashars again -_- then rain poured and we ate combat rations in the rain.... Had IFC lessons...many many lessons...in the rain..damn sian!!! dinner in the rain also ack!!
second day- the whole company late for fall in. massive tekhaning all over. cant blame us though! first time wake up in outfield...a lot of confusion
then 5bx, breakfast and many IFC lessons. Had some contact drills. Morale dropped to low levels when it started pouring just before last light...most of our lousy bashars couldn't hold up well in the rain. Mine was ok though 
third day- Woke up early to pack up to march 6km to oil palm plantation. Some tekhaning. The route march was like hell cos most of us had almost no sleep in the previous night. Morale low until we reached the oil palm. Pitched the bashars quickly and dugged the drainage. Had fire and movement lessons and practices. Fired blanks for the first time!
fourth day- super tekhan day for my platoon! leopard crawl on the cheebye gravel..machiam crawling on iron nails. pushups and crunches. had turnout, inspection of FBO. many many pushups all around. afternoon- technical halt! showered with WATER briefly!!!! cleaned rifles and cooked. I did guard duty ...quite exciting. Cos all the commanders plus the medic and clerks took part in rifle stealing. Us guard duty guys stopped many but they had the camp password so we lan lan let them steal lor.
firth day- what else? tekhan day cos some lost their rifles lor. all the platoons being tekhan all over the camp site...funny sia. "ONe sir two sir three sir"
"one two three four two two.." "1 MINUTE TO PUT DOWN YOUR WEBBING AND HELMET AT THE BASHARS AND RUN BACK"
Much leopard crawling all round then had fire and movement practice and test.
6th day- Packed up and marched to reclaimed land. Digged shellscrapes and foxhole. KNN!!! tiring sia. Took about 2 hours to dig our individual shellscrapes and 3 hours for the whole section to dig the foxhole..i think. Damn sian cos of the rain. Blistering with sand sweat and camou cream all over Morale at lowest point. After dinner had a turnout in the dark. TMD.
Just as we thought all was fucked suddenly ALL The field camp companies were transported to SISPEC by tonners to stay for the night. We changed to dry clothes and powdered bath and slept on the dry floor Apparently the CO decided to give us a bit of welfare lol. Cos all the shellscrapes all flooded and insects prowling all over the ground. Remembered a nearly 6 inch long mantis and an equally long red centipede. WAAHHHHA!
7th day- Covered up the dug up ground. Had arty drill and we lost about 10 casualties = more work for the rest of us!!! Fucking rained again. Went BIC ground...just as it reached my platoon's turn it fucking cat-1ed!!!! waited for 1+ hours there before doing the BIC...took less than 10 minutes. zzz
after that take tonner back to camp to shower and pack and CLEAN RIFLE!!
overall: quite a good experience, lah. but the rain ruined many things. out of the 7 days, i think it rained on 5 days. rain really really loweres morale. fire and movement drills are fun...even in the rain. i think field camp not tough actually....should be a bit more hoing. if not for the rain field camp really like schoolboys camp.
combat rations: the lunch and dinner mostly CMI lah...i know many of u lao jiaos will say we pampered haha. well the rice is edible lah...peraknakan style and chilli flake gluttinious rice not bad. the noodles all totally CMI except pasta bolognnaise. the noodles make one nauseous. The accessory pack...not bad lah...but the proportion a bit fucked. The biscuits give us too much that we cant finish but the tuna and ribena pack not enuff
all in all Im just glad to be back home. Tough times dont last tough men do!
ahahaha just one more thing to share. i remember near on the 5th and 6th days. The rain really fucked up. We all drowsy lethargic, covered in mud and sweat and cold. All of us started stoning. Once dismissed we stood in the same position without moving...just in a daze. Hilarious. Especially at night. Once standing, dont feel like sitting. Once sitting, dont feel like standing.
from the looks of it, they still do much the same things during field camp, including all the tekaning - well, i think this is good. it builds character. and the rain just adds to it! only by going through the lowest points can one discover his truest self, and of course, his truest friends.
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choc chip cookie sial!!Originally posted by nightsky87:New accesory pack
Can NESCAFE, packet RIBENA, choc chip cookies, etc.
i only had something made from flour baked in oven and compressed...soak in hot milo also as hard
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if i get to the SIRs will i chiong sua outfield every week?
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i see. thought u NSF.Originally posted by tlwa:ya i sign on right after my BMT.. it is a 4yr contract
sign on as a man or spec? -
If you include the training (section, platoon, company level)... roughly twice a month for the first 10 months after POP
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depends on which stage of the two-year cycle you are in. and even within that, it depends on whether there are important tests (e.g. prof tests, ATEC) coming or if they are over.Originally posted by crimson soldier:if i get to the SIRs will i chiong sua outfield every week? -
I ma quite amazed with the new accessory pack. But it really weighs heavier than the previous packs.
New accessory pack includes:
M&Ms chocolates
Raisins
Jacobs biscuits
Nescafe Coffee (Can Drink)
Ayam Brand Tuna ( Can )
Ribena ( Packet )
Chips More
Some are still in the new packs like
Pocari Sweat
Lipton Peach Tea
3-in-1 Coffee
Milo
Milk Tea
All these in powder packets....
Taste better but more weight to your field pack... I rather enjoy all these in my bunk...
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estimated to spend 1/3 of ur total time in SIR outfieldOriginally posted by crimson soldier:if i get to the SIRs will i chiong sua outfield every week? -
Did you shit during the entire week?
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wow now combat ration really pretty good.
but well not that my time combat ration is really shitty,hmm have at least glutinous rice,handy fruit bars and the very platable red bean desert which are pretty edible even the hard tack biscuit then are still pretty good cos maybe i have taste those old army style green wrapping hard core hard tack biscuit b4,those were really hard like rock.So comparatively our hardtack biscuit then actually taste pretty good to me thou few of my platoon mates eat them,saying it taste too lousy.
Also since there are only that few item in each combat ration pack that is of acceptable standard, i never ever ate much for my outfield trips and so do not have the need to shit outfield,lol thinking back, i never had a shit outfield b4 in all my 2 years 6 mths enslavement, can always tolerate until i get back to camp. -
cool! a good report!
hope you enjoyed the experience. Cuz its like once in a life time.
After that, in the units when you go out for mission exercises, there wouldnt be time to cook, but more welfare as you all become men, rather than recruits.
Keep up the good work and remember to take care of your health. Dun get sicked too easily, must once in a while preserve some strength and endurance.
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How do you open the tuna can? Or is that a silly question and the can is one of those that has a 'key' and does not need a can-opener?
Another thing... we practice bringing all our trash back with us. Doesnt this make the 'bin bags' overly bulky now that they may potentially contain empty metal cans that are not compressable?
Nescafe... hmm... coffee is a diuretic. Not terribly important since coffee and tea 3in1 sachets have always been issued, but just something to consider. And forgive me for linking a medical issue with race, but many Chinese are lactose-intolerant. I hope this doesn't give me the runs during my next time in the bush, when all I want is a quick caffeine fix to jolt my system! Getting my system 'jolted' with a bout of diarrhoea is NOT what I had in mind!
Ive always wished they would issue more Pocari sweat sachets, or make the existing one bigger. Its what we all save for those hot days when heat-cramps and exhaustion are a serious problem...
But im glad to see that they're trying to improve the C-Rations. Its an evolving thing... No need for old-timers to complain; they had it better than those before THEM! -
manOriginally posted by Gordonator:i see. thought u NSF.
sign on as a man or spec? -
sign on as infantryman? hm.. ADF isit?Originally posted by tlwa:man