The story of BSLC sispec
Yes, it's the end of my course and i've a lot of mixed feeling about sispec. It's a place i will never forget cos i've suffered there and enjoyed there at the same time.
End of BMT, received posting to SISPEC not Pilot OCS vocation. felt a bit relived, yes you heard me right relieved. why ? cos i dun want to go late into uni and that i'm like easily liable for watever shit happens to the plane or my attitude in the pilot course. Reported ten weeks ago on a glomy monday morning after everyone enjoyed there POP one week block leave. Check my posting at the parade ground. Echo company.
"die liao la, echo leh, last batch say it's the most xiong company in sispec"
"really eh, not foxtrot or bravo mehz"
those were the conversations i heard when i checked my postings. I didn't bother that much cos SISPEC is gonna be xiong anyway so who cares what company. Took a tonner that sent us from the pop parade ground to SISPEC which is 3 km away from BMT. At the company line, a commmando with red beret awaits us. "oh shit" is the first thought.
"All of u unload the tonner and fall in now" were the first words.
That commando happens to be my platoon commander warrant chew. everyone fall in dragging their legs and duffel bags. Some of us move in the file.
"WHY THE FUCK IS THERE MOVEMENT IN A FILE ? "
Turn my head, saw a bald guy in his 30s. It was sergent major , staff sergent Pay. Looking at that guy, you won't believe that he is a staff sergent cos his hairstyle is like one of us , Privates. Then, there was the sorting us into our sections, platoons , bla bla bla. Went into the section. Meet my bunk mates, junxin, cai, charles, tim, jiawei, rayson, jiande, farhan and mo. In weeks to come, we've come together as a section and suffered together.
I still can't forget the very first lecture conducted by sergent major. He scolded one guy for moving and scratching his head during his lecture. the guy said "sorry sergent major" for like 20 times cos sergent major insisted that he was too soft and he couldn't hear him. That's the first time we've seen how he really screwed ppl and give ppl Extras.
btw, that was blow number one. Blow number two was that STARHUB has no reception there at sispec. so basically, i was feeling super down for the first week cos of no phone n strict regimentation like never before. ( we can't even sleep at any time of the day like we did in BMT)
Wat followed after that was 4 weeks of continous lectures , ia drills and technical handling for various weapons. after that Excerise catwalk, nightowl, nutcracker and grandslam followed. my body start to fall apart at the stage of nutcracker. I dug finish a fire trench and shellscrape after no sleep for one night. the next morning i've fever and it kept rising to 38.6. fall out for excerise nutcracker after two days n one night. got a 3 day ATT C. at home, i discovered blood in my phglem and got another 4 day ATT C. my body have been totally shagged. during this period, my section mates and PC have been very caring, constantly asking my whether i want to fall out for the training in case i cannot take it. I hang on n completed grand slam n 32k route march. that was it . end of course.
Parting is such sweet sorrow really. i miss all the guys in my section. half of them will be following me in my next vocation and i'm quite happy about that although i would like all of us to stick together.
Tat's the sad reality of NS i guess. you really have no choice.
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