mb: Ulu until no handphone signal

On October 18, 2005 · 18 Comments · In Army / National Service, Places

“There are no power points here and the mobile sig­nal is inter­mit­tent. So I have to turn off my phone to save power. There are no bunks here, and we’re all stay­ing in tents. Okgot­tago, mobile­bat­tery­is­pre­cious­bye­bye.” said Miyagi to me last night.

Three weeks in an Aussie desert, a bat­tal­ion of Sin­ga­pore sol­diers with mobile phones with­out any mobile sig­nal and no way to charge their bat­ter­ies. I am sur­prised there isn’t already some kind of reservist uprising.

“MO sir, I dunno why leh, my hand shak­ing and I feel weak and faint. Maybe I need to MC or down­grade, you think? Ever since I found out I can­not sms or call my girlfriend/wife/children for three weeks, I have been feel­ing sick. No hand­phone lid­dat how I tell them to help me buy 4D and Toto?”

And can you imag­ine how dif­fi­cult it would be for the I/C to gather the men who have gone for can­teen break?

Oh wait. Desert has no army can­teen. Not even that mobile can­teen van dri­ven by this uncle who always seems to know where to find our sol­diers in the Sin­ga­pore exer­cise areas.

What da heow?

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  • http://www.unionpost.org bioa­n­ar­chism

    haha. i have been fol­low­ing up on your reservist posts and i must say,they are damn hilarious.

    aren’tt hose mobile can­teen vans also known as “ninja vans”? they are named sim­ply because they know where the sol­diers are, and when they are done they just zip off with­out a trace.

  • http://www.unionpost.org bioa­n­ar­chism

    haha. i have been fol­low­ing up on your reservist posts and i must say,they are damn hilarious.

    aren’tt hose mobile can­teen vans also known as “ninja vans”? they are named sim­ply because they know where the sol­diers are, and when they are done they just zip off with­out a trace.

  • http://www.xanga.com/koala__monkey Alan

    can send me the text to speech software?

  • http://www.xanga.com/koala__monkey Alan

    can send me the text to speech software?

  • http://eLsi3.blogspot.com eLsi3

    oh no. so sad.

    think­ing abt my mobile­phone.. i dont think i can live with­out it. i used to be able to remem­ber phone num­bers, but now.. i CANT.

    *gasps*

  • http://eLsi3.blogspot.com eLsi3

    oh no. so sad.

    think­ing abt my mobile­phone.. i dont think i can live with­out it. i used to be able to remem­ber phone num­bers, but now.. i CANT.

    *gasps*

  • http://middawn.blogspot.com/ Mr Lee

    I loved my stay dur­ing one of my over­seas detach­ment exer­cises. Quite an expe­ri­ence. Stayed at Camp Growl with the per­ma­nent army unit. Really got up close and per­sonal with all those wal­la­bies. Felt like shoot­ing them with my rifle and add some wild del­i­cacy for my din­ner. Ha-ha.

  • http://middawn.blogspot.com/ Mr Lee

    I loved my stay dur­ing one of my over­seas detach­ment exer­cises. Quite an expe­ri­ence. Stayed at Camp Growl with the per­ma­nent army unit. Really got up close and per­sonal with all those wal­la­bies. Felt like shoot­ing them with my rifle and add some wild del­i­cacy for my din­ner. Ha-ha.

  • http://michaelchua.blogspot.com Michael Chua

    U need a satelite phone in a des­o­late place like that.

  • http://michaelchua.blogspot.com Michael Chua

    U need a satelite phone in a des­o­late place like that.

  • J

    Hi Mr Brown, my fam­ily mem­ber is in the same bat­tal­ion as Mr Miyagi and I would be very grate­ful if you can post more of the news on what they do in down under — if you do hap­pen to chat with Mr Miyagi again :> Thanks in advance !!

  • J

    Hi Mr Brown, my fam­ily mem­ber is in the same bat­tal­ion as Mr Miyagi and I would be very grate­ful if you can post more of the news on what they do in down under — if you do hap­pen to chat with Mr Miyagi again :> Thanks in advance !!

  • http://gssq.blogspot.com Aga­googa

    So that’s why they’re called that!

  • http://gssq.blogspot.com Aga­googa

    So that’s why they’re called that!

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  • http://www.autodigital.info autodig­i­tal

    Not bad…

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