Graduated!

Finally i've graduated from Sispec. I'm proud because i graduated with a platoon's best trainee award. I got a certificate from Sispec and a pluck from my echo company. The last 2 days happen to be the most tiring days of Sispec training. That includes the 32km route march, the graduation rehearsal and clearing of belongings/stores. During the graduation i'm one of the 4 platoon best so i had to stand in front of the whole company. We had to stand there for nearly 1 hour in full battle order. The bag and the SBO's weight plus the hot sun was enough to wear me out...i nearly black out for a moment but i hanged on. I bent down occasionally to rest and got a scolding of course haha.

In the evening, we set out for our 32km route march. The march turn out to be the most tiring shit i have to go through in my entire life so far. Because i was the platoon's best i had to be the platoon ic. At every rest point i wasn't allowed to put my bag down until i got my platoon organised, make sure everyone is back and then reported to the officer in charge. My OC didn't want us to sing and might as well..because i dun think anyone of us had the breath to sing anyway. The whole march was fucking boring...the only thing we can look forward to is the next rest point..many of them fell asleep while marching..how they do it i dunno haha. Our OC led one 4km you will never imagine a 48 years old can walk so fast. He completed it in less than half an hour..i nearly died after that.

Of course at the end of the march..there's that sense of satisfaction and it came together with abrasions and cramps on the legs haha. We weren't given much time to rest after the march and we had to fall in again for our graduation parade. This time i didn't feel dizzy standing there and i got my cert and chevron from a colonel. He looks so young and so gay you will never imagine he's a big shot in the army wahaha.

After the parade came the clearing of belongings and stores. This turn out to be tiring too..the whole platoon was so tired most of them were reluctant to cooperate with me. But at the end of the day its done and i'm out of there. The whole platoon got their posting except me, maybe because i'm a regular. My buddy got into the PTI course...11 going on to ASLC...7 going to Signals...1 ADA and the rest combat engineering. There's this guy who very much want to get into the PTI course at the start of sispec and he worked hard for it...he even got sispec's best PT award. Guess where he's posted to...ASLC...he was so sad after that he didn't talk to anyone. Well i'm glad i got today to rest because signals and PTI had to report this morning haha.