1ao1c - a little matter of perspective

whew! it's been a long long time since i've felt so relieved upon bookout. this is not the time & space for me to comment abt the past few days, but, i guess there's no harm in dispelling a few myths.

1. unit life is not necessarily 'slack' - (slack = exercises once in a few months, nights out, privileges, whatever airy-fairy crap)
2. no one (except your platoon & pc & platoon sergeants) is going to look out for you. consider this hypothetical situation. you are stranded in the middle of tekong highway, right in the forested area, with no building in sight, for the past 6 hrs, minimal water, no food, and it's cat 1 (high lightning risk) without you even knowing it. no one bothers abt you until half an hour or 45 min later... oh and did i forget to mention that you're not allowed to bring your handphone out with you, and that you do not have any means of comms?

imagine another purely hypothetical situation. - u get a 24 hr guard duty on sunday to monday, and, after eating 7 or 8 hrs of your monday, they force u to 'sign out' one day of leave on monday, which means that you're signing out your own leave for guard duty. it just gets worse and worse, rite?

far be it for me to ramble on, but i would just like to offer a prayer that elgin, mark, qiyan do not get posted to my unit, or one similar to it.

posted by 21640 @ 12:08 am