Situational test is done! no more outfield (jungle) training for the rest of BMT! Yay!

too lazy to post up pics on my blog...but will summarize what's been going on... BMT is pretty fast paced. at the end of every week will feel damn stoned, tired out and all. Life is routine and monotonous because of all the bloody waiting time, for administrative and/or boliaoness.

But, it is good because you end up becoming so fit. I feel the fittest ever in my whole life man... aches all over but still going, because of competitiveness. hehe. I absolutely abhor outfield training though, because of the lack of hygiene. Train the whole day, perspire like a mating cow, then can't bath, only powder bath. Mud and sand sticking everywhere...oil, camoflauge cream....etecera. During our field camp, 7 days of rubbish lessons and plenty of endurance training, cos' you lug 30kg odd of stuff around everywhere.

Wearing combat fatigues, which traps heat, eating combat rations, which is something like baby food but with a more pungent smell, swopping my comfortable bolster for a bloody rifle to hug while sleeping, shitting out in the open, over layers of other people's shit, being raped continually by insects, and best of all, corporal punishment. That totally sucks ass, if one person slacks or does something wrong, everyone gets into trouble. Recruits are at the mercy of instructors, whom, if in a bad mood, can be damn unreasonable.

Aaaaaanyway, breezed through everything else, and just concluded our sit test. 3D2N camp to assess our leadership/stress management/peer management aptitude. A small group to run around and try to complete 12 missions, like crossing a river, defending a relay point, that kind of stuff, exactly like adventure camp, so that was pretty fun.

Too lazy to write more... anyway, think there's more than enough people writing about army life, but the problem is that outside of army i don't have much of a life now so can't blog about anything else.