Key take away from BTP (shooting range)
live range, the last high key event for us recruits. It took a whole day but was fun as well. Night shooting was relatively easy for me as i do not have night blindness and my LAD was working and zeroed properly. The best part i feel was buying food from the uncle who drove the ''ninja van''.We stuffed ourselves with chocolate and chips. There wasn't really much time to relax there as we were either getting ready to shoot, waiting to proceed to the range or waiting to draw our magazines. we didn't really step much into the admin area until dinner time.

The key takeaway however, i find would be the experience we get from shooting the SAR21 in the various positions, eg.standing,squating,proning positions. This would be an experience we would not be able to get outside, even during the army open house, that i remember i was only given 3 rounds to shoot and in the foxhole position. just for that 3 rounds i had to queue half a day.

Greatest achievement in BMT

i feel the greatest achievement in BMT would be making all the new friends here, working together, sharing all the ups and downs and ultimately forging a close bond. Although we are only here for 9 weeks but i think up till now which is already 6 weeks, i can safely say my platoon is cooperating with one another, with no one coming late for stuff and everyone reminding reach other to check or do stuff, and even helping each other out for other tasks, some as simple as taking a cup of drink for each other.

Next up would be finishing field camp. 5 days of not showering,bushing teeth, not shitting and rolling in the mud,proning in the mud, standing in the rain all wet and cold.Wow, i can't believe i actually finished it!

Whats the biggest change you see in yourself after 6 weeks in BMT?

I feel that i have grown stronger mentally and my appetite has increased by quite abit. At the beginning the 4km route march was a killer for most of us as i believe not many of us would carry on a field pack of 10-20kg tgt with our rifle,lbv and march for 4km. Thus not many of us were conditioned for the route march. However, as the days went by, the numerious PT sessions, numerous punishment sessions had made us stronger not only physically but mentally as well.

The 8km route march didn't feel as bad and as long as the 4km route march. The 12km route march wasn't that bad as well, although the blisters and abrasions continued to form. I worry abit for the 16km route march but i believe we are all up for it and the bookout the next day would be the motivation for us.

Rate your performance from 1 - 10

there are many things that i can rate myself for during BMT, firstly i would give myself 8.5/10 for my overall performance in BMT as i believe i gave everything my all.

Next for mental performance, i would say 9/10 i believe everyone who has not fallen out or reported sick unless due to serious ill-nesses should rate themselves at least a 9/10.

For physical performance (eg.ippt, pt sessions), i would rate myself 8/10.

Finishing the route marches, sitest and the field camp especially is not an easy task. But most of us made it and we should be proud of that.In a blink of an eye its already 19 more days to POP.How time flies.

Lastly i believe nobody is perfect so rating oneself 10/10 is rubbish.


This blog post was just copied from my army blog, since i typed there i might as well use it to update my blog as well.hehe.

chao people!
bookout on christmas eve.
19 more days to POP. (Y)