SCS WEEK 3

What a week it was! Navigation test was a blast as we finally could put our navigation skills to the test. Although it was a tiring full day of testing, the exposure given to us by the training was tremendous; As a scout, even I found the navigation test challenging as I have never done it in blistering heat with my body drenched in sweat. But I also really learned the importance of how pacing and azimuth setting complemented each other and how those key factors determined the accuracy of where you’ll land.

Fire and movement was fun because SGT Muz took our section. He expected a lot from us so he trained us hard- we tried different situations, tactics and learned the reason why we do ICE and SPIDER. Despite the raging heat and continuous training ,I feel that this lesson was essential as it really reinforced my knowledge on how fire and movement was meant to be done. Especially when it came to the lesson on ORANGE,  Warrant Heng drilled into us how it was done and how the sitrep was meant to be said. He even gave us an additional challenge by giving us a situation and made us react to it – something which I really appreciated as I soon found out the reason why and how we do fire and movement in a real life mission.

Sports day was really fun! It was a cool Saturday morning , despite the drizzle, thank God it didn’t rain and the training everyone put in didn’t come to waste! It was really how great the cadets from the individual schools became bonded and began cheering for their own schools even though the guys were from different companies. This really touched my heart and made me prouder of school 3.