3 days range X 7 days field camp X smelly clothes

0 comments   Sunday, October 31, 2004

ok, i shall update due to so many requests to do so ... reallie tired from the weeks activities, and will try to update regularly from my mobile ... =)




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3 Days Range

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wellz, had my day and night shoot practice for the 1st day ... no more computer simulation ... using LIVE ROUNDS now ... the m16 sounds reallie loud, but after a while, kinda got used to the loudness and recoil ... i found that i can shoot well in the day, but when it get's dark, my bullets kinda fly left and right ...




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7 Days Field Camp

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Day 1 - took the tunnel to our first camp sight, and we had our first few Individual Field Craft (IFC) lessons, on how to apply camo on our face, and how to blend into the surroundings by putting leaves, ferns, etc ... on our helmets, uniform, etc ... had a test of "hide and seek" in which we had 10 mins to go and hide ourselves in the vegetation without getting spotted ... and guess what ? it rained from evening till the next day ... had a cold, wet night ...



Day 2 - had more lessons on our IFC, and section battle drill in the afternoon, in which we were taught how to fight as a section of 12 men, moving forward from tree to tree during battle ... one of my basha poles broke, and had to use our rifles to keep one side of the tent from falling in ... it rained the whole day as well ... wet & muddy, but didn't care and just wanted to get enough sleep ...



Day 3 - more on our section battle drills ... and we had a night march to our next campsite which was at FIBUA (Fighting In Built Up Area) ... at least we had a roof over our heads ... spent the next 2 day over there ...



Day 4 & 5 - more on our section battle drills ... slept pretty well without getting wet during the night at least ... =)



Day 6 - had a 6km road march to our 3rd campsite, which was the reclaimed land ... pretty hot as it was a big stretch of open area ... even in the shade it was too unbearable for me ... struggled during the trench digging ... during the night, it rained heavily and we had to packup everything and run around 1km to the next training shack and squeeze in there to sleep ... it was terrible to run in the rain ... wet, dark, and you can only see the man in front you a few metres away ...



Day 7 - END OF FIELD CAMP ! we had our BIC, in which we had to leopard crawl and back crawl a total of 110m under barbed wire with a GPMP (General Purpose Machine Gun) firing live rounnds over our head ... tired, but it was finally over ... =)