Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Classification shoot

Today was our classification shoot. It is kind of an important (I think it was very important -.-) event as it is our one and only chance to get our marksmen badge. We had been practicing rigorously the past few months to prepare for this event ( i suppose?) and this was the day where we will show what we have learned.

We changed into our uniform and went to the HTA blah blah. We marched and blah blah. Then, it was our turn to shoot. When it was over, we realised that some of us did not do very well and as Mr Tan told us when we were back in school, our scores were the worst he had ever seen. Still, at least everyone tried their best, though i don't see why its so hard to get the marksman badge when even Jun Kai, who went there and started randomly firing rounds, got it.

Ok I promised I'd add on... So... While it may not be difficult for some of us to get a decent score, it may not be so for other squad mates. Everybody will have his strengths and if it so happens that a squad mate's weakness lies in this area then we cannot blame him for not doing as well as expected as long as he has tried his best.

And I was pretty nervous myself, I'm sure we all were. Perhaps we'd have done better if there wasn't so much pressure on us. Expectations are always scary... I don't know, anybody wants to add? It's a squad blog, remember :)

Guo Wei. and Justin XD


P.S. Yong Kiat, don't deny it.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Today's Training

Decided to post this to talk about my experiences in today's training(make this less dead).

Although I'm 'segregated' from the 'main' squad to train on the CPL CAPE, I certainly learnt a few pointers today. This training session was essential for me to brush up my drills since the holidays. However, I was kind of disorientated today, and ended up doing many things wrongly. Mock CAPE is next week, but I still don't feel quite ready for it.

The MASS PT session was rather interesting as it gave me a rough gauge on what I should expect and what I have to start working on. It was also rather suprising to see a Secondary 2 cadet doing 10 chin-ups when I was at the Inclined Pull-up station.

Overall, I feel that today's training was a rather fruitful one (for me) and good luck for the upcoming CAPE!

Yours Sincerely,
LCP PHUA TAI DA JOHN
SECONDARY THREE SQUAD CADET

Cheers,
John Phua