Reservist ICT

Just went in for my Reservist In-Camp-Training from the 19th to 23rd of March. It was nostalgia to the max. Suddenly, when you are in the famous green, Dirt, Mud and Smell has no hold over you! This was a low-key ICT being only 5 days with the flow of things geared towards the Combat Shoot. As a Battalion HQ personnel though, I had no run-down and only needed to participate in 100m Fox-hole with support. Sadly, due to some cock-ups with the range system, a lot of men were unhappy with the shots on target not being registered properly and coming away with 70+% for the shoot. We needed 80% for marksmenship as a section of 5 and I was in 1 of the unlucky groups to score 78%! Bye bye $200!!!

Being at reservist always brings me 3 consistent good feels. The 1st being seeing my best friend Andy who just got married in the ICT. He happens to be in the same unit as me~ 451 SAR. We managed to catch up over breaks at the range as well as shopping at the E-Mart.

The 2nd as mentioned is the once a year shopping at E-Mart. I was pretty upset that I had $130+ of credits expired from my SAF E-Mart account in the year of 2006. To my delight, I still had $226 worth of credits this time round. Deciding to splurge as much as I could before anymore sad expiries...... I managed to spend 1/2 of that amount only. Embarrassing though..... I learnt that I could have spent the credits in my account via online-purchasing. duh.....

The 3rd of the good things is always being there to mix it around with the fellow officers. Although we don't meet up any other time during the year, this once a year affair always serves as good bonding time. Every officer there is friendly, helpful and dependable. I guess that came naturally as we all share the same problems with getting things to move forward in the ICTs. Therefore, no officers will Chao Keng or Siam arrows. We will just all come together to help in the workload. This initiative and comradeship is a good feeling.

Oh well..... anyway, my next ICT looks to be in Oct/Nov 2007. It will be high-key this time around. 3 things again. 1- see Andy. 2- fellow officers. 3- E-Mart shopping with my remaining $113 worth of credits. More socks.... more towels..... more shoes. hahaha