Ex Virgo – “Endurance thru Mental Strength”

Sun: Book in at 1800. Day just got worse as we don’t even have the weekend to enjoy. Start on the planning and creating various charts for the presentation of warning orders.

Mon to Wed: After presentation of the requirements, we headed off to Lim Chu Kang Training area for our 4 days 3 night map planning exercise. For the first mission, we were planning for the offensive mission and I was appointed a lineman, responsible for laying lines around the HQ, but since it was an attack mission, there was no need to lay lines. While they were executing the plan, I was in HQ doing nothing.

Second mission was also an attack mission. Planning start at wee hours at 2am on Tuesday. There was no rest for us to recover. I was appointed Regiment Sergeant Major (RSM) responsible for “Dirty work” like maintaining of generator, topping up water etc. I was totally not involved in the planning stage. I think I missed quite a lot in the planning stage.

Third mission was a defensive mission. This time I was appointed the S2 signaler. Planning starts at 12am on wed. Three quarters of my platoon just went concussed and slept all the way, while some managed to endure the planning stage. I volunteered to draw the blown up of the map and by 4am, I joined the group and just knocked out immediately. As soon as the day lights up, we executed the plan and start establishing the communication lines. Somehow we were motivated by the fact that we were going back 1 day early than planned. By 6pm, we were off back to camp.

Fri: Guard duty till today morning.

Happy APRIL FOOL DAY

Zzzzzzzzz…Cheers.