Bad Experience in Ex SpitFire

As describe in the previous blog where I describe it as the finale of my SOCC course as it summarise what we have to learn and had to endure the 72KM walk to the end. But it end off in a very bad note.

24 Apr Monday
Guard Duty till next morning. A bit worried as I am recovering from flu.

Tuesday
Preparation of Ex-SpitFire. Weight of fieldpack-20KG. Did not quite get enough sleep especially with last night guard duty.

Wednesday
1am: Turn out by instructors for Ex-SpitFire. Change to my full battle order and dash to fall in at the parade square ready for the exercise.
5.45am: Start of Ex-Spitfire at Yishun as the start point.
7am: Reached the first checkpoint. The right side of my shoulder keep geeting numb.
8.30am: Movement to Checkpoint 2 @ Lower Piere Reservior. Reached at 9.20am.
10am: Movement to Checkpoint 3 @ Nee Soon Camp. What a long and boring walk.
11.30am: Reached CP3. Had lunch and the officer forced us to carry on under the hot day at 12pm. Started to show sign of heat exhaustion as i didn't sweat much. I was very worried. For the whole strech from Nee Soon Camp to Mandai Road, my uniform was dry, not a single sweat at all. My body was feeling hot but i used water to cool down. Continue to walk till we reached CP4.
7pm: Waited for the whole afternoon to do our task and leave the training shed by 7pm. By then, i had reported my heat exhaustion to my instructors but i managed to carry on.
12.30am (nx day): Reached Stagmont Camp, CP4. While resting, i was breathing very hard and feeling hot again. Reported to instructors but i feel i can carry on. But i was asked not to carry on. Premature end to my Ex-SpitFire.

I was feeling very down not having to complete my Ex-SpitFire as well as the 72km. What make me even worse is that I might be having Ex-SpitFire 2 with the specialist. What a waste. I blame it on myself for having flu and not able to recover fast enough. Now very very demoralise and sad.

3 more weeks to end of SOCC...with Ex-SpitFire 2...haiz

P.S. To my darling: I miss u dearly this few weeks...but nevertheless I wish u all the best in ur exams...hope to meet u out soon...

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