I've survived the great Bear!!! Ex- Bear is finally over... Man...i'm so glad it is too... It was absolutely torturous...which explains why i'm half-way to sick right now.
The deployment phase wasn't much, just that the rain caused the easy-to-dig soil to turn into sticky mud. It didnt help that my lower back acted up, and for the fact that there were at least 3 lare rocks in my shellscrape area. Fab. Caused yet more sparks when i hit them accidentally. In the end...got so fed up that i dug a child-sized shellscrape...bah...what the heck. Then when we went to dig the spare shellscrape, the spot was the exact spot where i dug my shellscrape for Ex-Cub... Needless to say, it wasn't well re-filled...haha...and so rather easy to dig. And man was it large...when the sun finally came up, i saw that even after i dug enough for me to prone and sleep comfortably, i'd only dug half the original size. Now i know how large it was the last time...
Anyway....ATC was torturous...24 hours for that, but we were planing for an earlier finish. 8 km worth of walking to get through the whole thing, and that's without losing your way. Didn't help that i was the point man too. With the demolitions kit bag, my shoulders were aching like mad...all the way through...hell. On top of that, the enemy platoon screwed up some obstacles...bah... Something funny did happen though. Terence lit a candle to warm himself up in the cold dark night and fell asleep over it. Needless to say, his pants caught fire, and we quickly woke him up to put out the fire. Haha...liar, liar, pants on fire. Lolz... Anyway, the minefields were a huge chore and fortunately, bao ge was on good terms with the assessing specalist. Needless to say, the clearing suddenly experienced a huge boost of speed.
Defence wasn't much fun either, with us doing a minefield while the rest go away with easier stuff. The original dimensions were for a 120m by 100m minefield. Absolute nuts in the conditions we were in. Fortunately, Alpha OC, our chief assessor decided to scale it down to 40m by 20m...else, we would have died there and then.
One scary thing going through this is that i definitely wasn't myself. I was lost half the time and didn't really know where i was or what i was doing. Fortunately the training took over and i did the clearing drills in auto-pilot. Scary if you ask me. But then again, its all over and i've got my ETEP badge...
The deployment phase wasn't much, just that the rain caused the easy-to-dig soil to turn into sticky mud. It didnt help that my lower back acted up, and for the fact that there were at least 3 lare rocks in my shellscrape area. Fab. Caused yet more sparks when i hit them accidentally. In the end...got so fed up that i dug a child-sized shellscrape...bah...what the heck. Then when we went to dig the spare shellscrape, the spot was the exact spot where i dug my shellscrape for Ex-Cub... Needless to say, it wasn't well re-filled...haha...and so rather easy to dig. And man was it large...when the sun finally came up, i saw that even after i dug enough for me to prone and sleep comfortably, i'd only dug half the original size. Now i know how large it was the last time...
Anyway....ATC was torturous...24 hours for that, but we were planing for an earlier finish. 8 km worth of walking to get through the whole thing, and that's without losing your way. Didn't help that i was the point man too. With the demolitions kit bag, my shoulders were aching like mad...all the way through...hell. On top of that, the enemy platoon screwed up some obstacles...bah... Something funny did happen though. Terence lit a candle to warm himself up in the cold dark night and fell asleep over it. Needless to say, his pants caught fire, and we quickly woke him up to put out the fire. Haha...liar, liar, pants on fire. Lolz... Anyway, the minefields were a huge chore and fortunately, bao ge was on good terms with the assessing specalist. Needless to say, the clearing suddenly experienced a huge boost of speed.
Defence wasn't much fun either, with us doing a minefield while the rest go away with easier stuff. The original dimensions were for a 120m by 100m minefield. Absolute nuts in the conditions we were in. Fortunately, Alpha OC, our chief assessor decided to scale it down to 40m by 20m...else, we would have died there and then.
One scary thing going through this is that i definitely wasn't myself. I was lost half the time and didn't really know where i was or what i was doing. Fortunately the training took over and i did the clearing drills in auto-pilot. Scary if you ask me. But then again, its all over and i've got my ETEP badge...
posted by Timothy at 11/05/2004 11:49:00 PM
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