Why Are You Here?

To My Left...Section Charge !!!!

I had never been so tired doing my duty until that is Yesterday.

Yesterday Duty Officer was Chief PTI 2WO Rajan. He is reputed for “Tekaning” us Sea Soldier to perform various type of QRF that is seemingly impossible to happen in our base.

Therefore after I finished my dinner, all of us were waiting at the recreation room for the alarm to sound. It even seems right for me to comment that “I finished my dinner; at least I will not die as a hungry ghost.” The wait was agonizingly long, I was physically and mentally tired yet I can’t take a nap because this is my 1^st encounter with his infamous QRF drill. Somehow I overheard a conversation which I thought is very funny and true while closing my eyes.

Please let me elaborate:

Let’s put our hand and welcome the “Navy Best Acting Squadron” - - Theeeee Seaaaaa Soldierrrrrr!!! (Must drag the voice to have more impact mah!). How did I arrive to this conclusion? Well you see the QRF system works like this. Once the alarm is activated, everyone will put down their things, pulled up their pants, wear their SBO, pick up their weapons and make a mad dash to muster in front of the DSO. The DSO may select some scenario and “WE” are to avert the disaster and once again save the base from further harm! (Stylo hor!) In short, we may also call the DSO as the scriptwriter. Let’s list a few scenarios.

If a person who whatever the Fcuk managed to sneak into our camp and Lord Forbid decide to commit suicide at our building, we will be activated to become the NEGIOTATER to calm him down even though we did not receive any training on negotiating skill. Most likely we will ask him to jump ASAP so that we can save time and go back to sleep.

If a person who whatever the Fcuk managed to sneak into our camp and Lord Forbid decide to plant a bomb inside the building, we will be activated to conduct room to room search and cleared the room of any bomb (Something like the Special Forces) even though we have only attended 1 day of FIBUA training.

So you tell me whether we should receive any prizes for our performance? No! The “Navy” people hate us because we wear green uniform and always catch them of their camera hand phones. The senior commanders like us because we act as a bad guy and take charge of the discipline of the camp.

So let’s continue from yesterday what we have done. The alarm was activated around at 2200++. It was considered very late by other’s DSO but pretty early by 2WO Rajan standard. We were made to conduct as Fighting Patrol to search for intruder inside the camp. We walked less than 5 mins where someone heard a “gun shot” and shouted: “CONTACTED”. To many other army units, this is very very common phrase which they often heard in the forrest training area. But we are right now in the concrete building so it is actually “pretty refreshing” to hear the phrase “CONTACTED” once again amid at different environment.

The first drill was not very up-to-standard so I shall not elaborate much. 2WO Rajan was not satisfied with our performance so we braced ourselves for another QRF at another unearthly hour. We went back to the recreation room to clean ourselves and prepared to have a good rest when the fcuking alarm sound again! (Charlie Charlie Brown, I have just powdered myself with Snake powder, washed my face with Johnson Clean & Clear, changed into a clean shirt less than 15 mins ago and I got activated again!)

This time round, all of us were more or less familiar with what 2WO Rajan expects of us so we moved about confidently. We have decided earlier on not to use comms set and instead shout out the commands for easy co-ordination. Once again, less than 5 mins after we set off our fighting patrol, we were “CONTACTED” again. My buddy aka Mr “Fighting Fish” was so enthusiastic that he even prone down on the wet ground because it rain earlier on. The environment was too dark to spot the intruder and we fired into the wrong direction…so SIA SUAY. Memories of SISPEC training came back. Those drills that we performed over and over again until we memorize them by heart automatically take their cue. Cries of “MOVE FORWARD!!!”, “ADVANCE”, “TAKE COVER”, MY 12 O’CLOCK” and “CHARGE” filled up the base at 0000 in the night. In fact, I think the whole exercise was quite exciting and fun because it give us the feeling we are back to where we belong - - “ARMY”. However the aftereffect was disastrous. I had to perform duty from 0300 to 0500 in the morning and I began to resemble a zombie while struggling to keep my eyes open.

Never before had I became so shagged while doing duty and this was certainly the first time. I caught a quick nap after 0500 to 0630 before we had to do the morning peak duty again till 1000. It was during this extreme mentally and physically tired state of quick nap I even dreamt of One True Love…Wat the FCUK? However, the dream had no link or whatsoever, only a little bit and pieces here and there so nothing to elaborate about.

I guessed after all these months, her presence still exist in my sub-consciousness even though she is not around my surrounding physically.

posted by Immortali @ 11:56 pm