Actually my story kinda started 3 months back already, but I'll just give a re-cap of everything that happened pre-OCS(currently going into my 3rd week now).
As usual, I served BMT in Tekong like everyone else.I was under this "Enhanced Leadership Batch" probably because I was from a JC and had good results. I dont really agree with how they discriminate between people with different results so openly, but I guess the good thing is that you will be grouped with people that you will more likely know. At least for me, many people knew each other already as we all came from JC and met each other through inter-school events previously!
Soooo... in BMT I was in 5th company! Had a reaaaaaaally great time there which was a lot better than I had expected. I think it is true that NS really became a lot easier than it was before. Before enlisting on 4 Feb 2015, I was srsly very worried cus of all the things that I had heard about NS and expected the worst. But eventually, it really wasnt as bad as I thought! The physical and mental stress was really very manageable. Yes I did get homesick at times but really it is very easy to get used to it! Of course, I could have been lucky to get platoon mates and commanders that I really liked...(but if you are worrying that you wont be with people that you like, I think just dont worry so much! I know it is easier said than done to just "stop worrying", but I just have to say that being forced to live, eat and sleep together does something that can make the worse of enemies become at least okay-ish friends hahaha)
But having said that, I did learn a lot of things from BMT as well. I never expected this as I thought that I would immediately hate NS and just go through the whole thing without using any brains! But I think in the end everyone knew we had grown one way or another. For me, I think the most important things I had learnt was how to treasure my family a loooooot more as well as how to control my emotions better i.e stop being so worried all the time and learn how to relac when got relac time so that you can rest up for the day ahead. Even now I am still continuing to learn a lot of personal qualities stuff!
Mmmmm.. maybe I will just share how my BMT was a bit different from the others in one aspect... THE FIELD CAMP!!!! Always thought of as the hardest part of BMT, I was very anxious about it but at the same time I wanted to go in and get over with it. Sure enough, I scraped through the first few days with my temperature averaging above 37.5 degrees constantly! Quite unlucky ah cus with that blardy helmet and ILBV vest on it makes me more prone than I already am to heat exhaution and my Company's field camp was one of the more "Xiong" ones already!
But then on the stupid shellscrape day once I was about done digging my shellscrape... BOOM! My temperature shot up to 39.5! Woa I could barely even walk straight... In the end I decided I had to tell my commanders lah. Unfortunately, although I thought I could just cool down and join back the training, they actually pulled me out of the whole field camp instead hahaha. I felt so numb inside at the point and just could not comprehend what happened hahaha... I felt like I had failed myself by not completing the five days of field camp. But worse off, I knew I probably had to re-do field camp with another company with people I dont know as completing field camp was a requirement for going into command school. So ya, this mixture of fear of doing everything again and dissapointment obviously didnt go down well.
In the end I really did field camp again with Dragon company! Okay luh but their field camp was a lot easier so I could go through it quite easily although I didnt have my section mates by my side! Overall the feeling still really sucked tho... One tip for people going into BMT is that even if you want to kheng right, kheng at the "right" trainings! If you miss all these high-key events they will probably just force you to join another company to redo the training like a "prostitute" as we called it and the feeling is really not nice.
Yarp, so after three months here I am and managed to get into OCS. 3 months ago I was thinking of just becoming a man and just go under the radar. I dunno why I changed my attitude and I am still trying to figure out what I really want from NS, but as you can see, a short time in BMT can really change some1.
I think this post is probably a bit long but its cus it is meant to be a re-cap of everything that has happened so far... But okay luh BMT got nothing much to re-cap oso. I am being serious when I say that BMT is a honeymoon period- no responsibilities and got a lot of regulations to protect you from being abused hahaha. Once you go vocation or command school then I think things really start to become a bit more "Fun"hahaha *cries in a corner*.
And on to my next phase...
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