24km route march at ECP

2 long distance march within 2 week, really a pain in the ass... feeling very tired and restless, we still have to gear up and walk the distance... as the point of contact, i have many things to look into... things like stores and participants... the march is a boring one, a turn off, i would say. also there seems to have some communication problems with the company lines...

first, the most horrible thing that went wrong was that everyone was late for the assembly. all because everyone's watch is showing different time, and because of the "i wait for you and you wait for me" practice, or rather known as "monkey see monkey do" action, that's why everyone was late. after some morale talk by CO, we than board the bus and head to ECP.

when we reach ECP, after all the briefing and talking, we started the march in 2 waves because the buses was indented in 2 waves... don't know whose idea was that but it shows a sign of no integrity. so C, SP and HQ just started marching off as first waves... we were told not to sing along the way. so we all kept quiet starts to joke among one another. i join and joke around with the medics that were marching beside me.

its was a long march... because it was boring but we tried our best to joke around and make the walk an interesting one. at the U-turn point, i was told to take off my pack and remove my helmet because as a safety, I'm supposed to walk with my webbing and jockey cap and not full battle order. though it was light for me, it wasn't easy for my back. when we hit the end point and did our warm down, the feeling was good... because we get to rest. for me, i had to stretch my back as it really irritates a lot, especially the lower back muscles group that have suffered strains before... sometimes i just can't understand why must we push on when it hurts. it just increases the chances of injuries... i sometime have to wonder how and what is an officer is thinking! they just wanted you to complete it and not fall out and that's it. they want you to complete the march just one time where you don't have to re-walk again. i wonder if they have ever think of how that person struggling felt. i wonder if they will put themselves into their shoes... pushing on is good but pushing too much is not good, especially physically...

after warm down, we saw the second wave troopers coming in. we just don't understand why are they singing! that was a real embarrassment to me because it shows that the unit is screwed up. we were told not to sing but why is the other group singing? what kind of communication skills are we showing? every soldier now shouts "READY" every time they seat at ease or acknowledge. every READY they shouts turns out to be rubbish every day and every min. full of craps is all i can say!

everyone was resting when suddenly the rain just drop down hard from the sky! everyone ran for shouters in ECP. 500 soldiers all around ECP with their rifle seeking shelter. some have to seek shelter in the under pass! well, this is unpredictable! what worse was that the walk ended early! everyone have to wait for the freaking bus! why can't they just sticky to the timing given? even though there are bound to have changes, why didn't they change the bus timing as well? i'm starting to hate the top management people already because they think that they wanna change and it will be changed immediately!

ending up, HQ took tonner back home. it was a long sleep on the tonner. the rest gotta wait for the buses to come. my poor friend shariff got to wait till everyone is gone before he goes back. he is taking the big boss's cars back to camp. oh man... sometimes i really wonder what are these people doing...