Part II:
Possible postings after Basic Engineer Course include:
- School of Armour ( Armour Engineer )
- 35th SCE ( Amphibious Engineers )
- 36th SCE ( Explosives and Ordinance Disposal )
- 39th SCE ( NBC Engineers )
- Plant Engineers ( Operate dozers and other heavy equipments )
- Field Engineers ( <- you very "heng" liao loh. hahahaha )
Okay, the reason I said you very heng is because, it is the most siong of all liaoz. The most relax should be plant engineers. The field engineer course is about 3 months long. So this is the 2nd longest path to your 3sgt rank after the Armour Sepcialist course. In this field engineer course, you'll learnt advanced theories and alot of outfield exercises. Stuffs like:
- Live demolition of charges less than 10kg in Singapore.
- Construction of beach obstacles
- Construction of underground Battalion Command Post.
- Construction of underground Battalion Collection Station.
- Construction of very big bridges for tanks and vehicles to cross.
- Learn to do basic engineer surveys.
- Assault breaching of various types of obstacles.
- Overcoming Anti - Tank Ditches.
- Launch / retrieve Class 30 Trackway.
- Road mine sweeping
- Go to Ex Crescendo with the officer cadets from CTW for summary exercise together.
In Ex Crescendo, specialists trainees will train together with the officer cadets for a common summary exercise. Officer roles and senior roles like CSM will be played by cadets and specialist trainees will be sect comds and PSs. The rest who doesn't have a role will be men irrespective if you are cadets or specialists. I really like this collaboration because this helps us see how cadets trains and they see how us trains. And of course, along the way, you will make great friends with them too. But beware too, those cadets instructors will be able to f*** you too if you screw up! And the best thing of Ex Crescendo is that you will be able to fire virtually unlimited amount of demolition ( < 10kg ). It is here that you really feel the shock and awe of demolition! Really fantastic. After the 6 day summary exercise, everyone will have 2 days RnR and visit the SOP places before getting your ass back in Singapore. hehehe...
I hope this helps. Join the Field Engineers if you really like to blow shit up! hahaha... I REALLY like demolition.
After you finished your field engineers course, the only combat roles you'll be posted to will be limited to
- Infantry / Guards Pioneer platoon
- 30SCE
Otherwise, you'll either end up as instructors in the School of Combat Engineers or become Admin / Ops Specialists withing the engineer formation. And of course, you get your 3Sgt FINALLY.......
