SCS WEEK 6

Week 6. An excruciatingly long week for me especially. Being a COS during off-in-lieu was quite demoralising , but that “ordeal” in itself was quite enriching! I had to double confirm the medics’ and drivers’ particulars for Encik , the tonners and safety OUV for Urban Ops.

Tuesday and we were off ! When we reached the urban ops area, I was stunned – such a place existed in Singapore !? I was surprised how well equipped the area was and how all our drills could be applied there. For both the days , we practiced the room clearing, window clearing and team movement drills repeatedly till we executed the drill almost perfectly. Thanks to the amount of rounds we had ( around 90 , but I had 140+) and the amount we could only expend in one room , I can safely say it could be muscle memory to execute the drills already. However, not everyone practiced the drills as much as the others. They just passed their rounds over to the rest and continued resting. This taught me that we should persevere and not be lazy in training – when its crunch time, we do our drills seriously , but when its rest time , we really know how to relax. I really enjoyed UO overall , and discovered how smooth the drills can be executed even with an additional team behind.

Other then the lessons and SOC time trial on Thursday, the most important day was Friday – section live firing. It was really fun , being able to see the section moving as one across a field , trying to overrun the enemy and applying all that we learnt to this live firing. When shooting the live rounds, I realized how difficult it was to keep the section integrity – to ensure all were in line and no one lagging behind – and at the same time , to be able to combat zero and hit the target. During the night, I felt it was the coolest. The sky lighted up with our tracers like a laser show and the challenge of hitting the target kept my adrenaline pumping. I learnt that sometimes at night, our focus will be off as we try really hard to figure out whether or section is In line or not, whilst trying to figure out where our bullets are landing – a tough feat which gave a lot of pressure to the section commander.

All in all, week 6 was quite a great week as all we learnt could be applied to real scenarios  and the ability to fire rounds injected that little bit of fun to it.