Tag: National Service
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Of beauty rich and rare
I am not looking forward to going for my reservist training. My battle-hardened (water fights in the bathroom) unit will be sent to North Queensland and put in the bush for the most part of 20 days. I’m not too sure how I’ll hold up. There’ll be intermittent mobile phone access, but fuck me dead,…
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Squatting Matilda
Mr Miyagi receives his medal for ‘Best Army Blogger’ Army briefings are seldom exciting, and yesterday’s one was no different. My unit mates all asked me, “Are you gonna blog this?” or, “Are you gonna blog about this?”, to which I replied, “No lah! So boring, blog what fuck?” Of course I was kidding. “So…
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Stimulating simulation
Mr Miyagi will be out of reach this afternoon as he will be at camp attending a military briefing. SAF musical chairs: Budget heli-ops training – a coupla benches, pilule some masking tape and very imaginative soldiers from the 433rd Battalion Meanwhile, patient enjoy: Sian hor? Reservist? Technorati Tags: army, nationalservice, Singapore
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Rules of engagement and other things reservists have to worry about
iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: Guilty – Jimmy Barnes – Flesh and Wood, of which I have the original CD and therefore didn’t steal music. My Army unit is on Mobilisation Manning this week, right after 17 days of in-camp training! If they mobilise us this Saturday just to practice, we will…
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Symptoms of fire
Symptoms of fire Last week during ICT, we were treated to the usual round of lectures, done by instructors in an army of the 21st century – powerpoint slides, flash animations, the works. Lectures usually precede practical field training, and despite our sniggering, they usually help in our understanding of what we’re supposed to do…