Fuck Rambo.
Seriously.
You cant carry a baooka and machine gun and fight an entire war on your... I know... I tried.
Just booked out of camp.
Past 9 days has been... well... shagged is a bit of an understatement. Its like you not doing ALL the projects in school for a year, and then the night before the deadline, you are rushing ALL of it in a few hours while trying to run 5km in 30 mins and carrying all your belongings in your house right now in a field pack.... It s a bad way of explaining what Tekong was, but that was basically how we felt constantly for 5 days. Total of 120 hours of that. Less than 12 hours of actual sleep.
The rest of the time, we are either planning, walking/jogging, bashing through a thick jungle, waiting for the enemy, attacking,planting detonation charges and then pulling back 4-5 km carrying your buddy on a stretcher who had apparently 'been grievously injured in the raid'.
My brain is not functionaing properly right now.
Our bodies and minds have gone beyond the point of 'Damn! Im tired', gone beyond 'STOP NOW BITCH!'... Gone beyond ' This is it, im gonna die'...
Haix... This is what happens when you try to squeeze a 12 week course into 7 weeks...
Tekong is not fun... Trust me on this.
Every BMTC dude out there will tell you the same thing, but he's probably been IN THE FIELD for maybe 5-6 days tops...
When I mean in the field, I really mean in the field.
We dont sleep in shelters or tents... or even on ground sheets.
We sleep in a circle formation in a muddy clearing in the jungle with our field packs in front and our guns pointed outwards. We sleep with one eye open, cos there's a likelyhood that a wild boar carrying off your field pack in the night, or that 'enemy forces' will attack your patrol base in the middle of the night.
I always admired the soldiers in the movies, out in jungles fightin Vietcongs and shit... But when Im finally doing it, with a bazooka at my feet and machine gun firing non- stop on my right, its not that fun at all...
Maybe Im just not totally used to it yet.
Commandos is fun, but you just have to get used to it.
There is ALOT of cool stuff, and we do get to learn and do the shit that all those heroes in movies do.
But its not fun when you're being graded on how well you do it. Not fun when you are carrying a $20,000 night vision goggle on your head that could snap off and drop away into the night, leaving you to answer, and probably pay for it. THOSE things are not fun.
But spamming 120 rounds on full auto is fun... Seeing the looks on your 'enemy' forces faces when you kill them is fun... Reporting,' Mission Success' on your comms set is fun...
Stressed!
Taiwan is gonna be better... Way better.... I hope....
At least we get to party after 11 days field camp there.... And IM just waiting to party hard...
