What i shared with my ss class on fb
Let me share something about my bmt life, about how God has kept me safe and listened to my prayers.
On the enlistment day, I woke up with a really bad headache cause I woke up pretty early, so I slept less and that resulted in the headache. It was very sian, trust me, there were thoughts of not going and stuff like that, but well, I wouldn’t do it as the consequences were much worse.
My confinement period was 18 days. It was a really long period of time, spending 2 weekends in tekong. I have this green army devotional book which Dn Joel Seah passed to me at paris ris bus interchange on my enlistment day. He went all the way there to send me and timo off. Thank God for that. Although there wasn’t much time everyday, I still managed to squeeze some time to read it and pray to God.
On the 12th day of the confinement, I fell sick due to this virus spreading about in my platoon. Around one sixth of the platoon was sick. I registered a temperature reading of 38.6 at its peak and it was the highest temp I got in my life. Well, I still managed to run around 5km in the morning as I did not know I had it. Then I fell really warm and sick so I took my temperature and realized I had a fever. But later in the day, there was a technical handling test about the rifle, so I stayed on as I did not want to redo this on a weekend (turns out those who missed did it on a night after all the activities). Then I went to see the MO after that and went home, but the fever did not subside although I took their medication. I really prayed to God during this period of time because if I wasn’t physically fit enough and missed the Individual Field Craft training, I wouldn’t be able to participate in Field Camp. But Thank God I took my own panadol (but not allowed when taking other medication) and became perfectly well. Confinement period was really tough as you have to adapt to a totally new environment, and not being able to go home on weekends was sian too.
Anyway after this was Field Camp, I prayed to God for strength and perseverance, and the camp turned out pretty well, also due to the fact that it wasn’t as strenuous as other companies.
Another thing to thank God for was my IPPT. I got a pass my first time round due to my standing broad jump. It was a total repeat of my j2 napfa as I got almost the same grade before the real test. I prayed to God to help me master the technique as I wanted a Gold really badly as there are privileges. So during the 2nd ippt test, I went to try jumping first because I had to warm up. I jumped around 225 during the warmup but due to God’s grace, I got a 234 during the actual one which really surprised me, In the end, for ippt 3, I managed to get a 239 as my technique was much better already.
Another time when God really helped me was during live firing. Those who did not obtain a marksman 26/32 had to come back to the range again to reshoot. I really prayed to God because its really troublesome to go back plus all the saikang you have to do cause there will be really few people and all the stress from the shooting. So I prayed to God for a marksman and also no Negligence Discharge(ND) which means you shoot at the wrong time, or misfire. ND results in SOL – stoppage of leave, for every few hours, you have to march to the HQ and also u cant go home for 7 days which means 1 weekend is gone. For range, I obtained a perfect shot, thank God for that! In the end, I had to return to range(although did some saikang but its ok) with 14 others to compete for company best shot, I didn’t get it in the end as I was pretty nervous when shooting, but still thank God for his grace.
Now nearing the end of BMT, I thank God for preserving me although some have told me I have become thinner, yes I think its true too cause my shirts and pants are much bigger now.
And one advice to all those going in: get GOLD for ippt.
My fellow fail/pass friends booked out 3 times on a sat while mine was on fri
Silver booked out 2 times on a sat while mine was on fri.
SO… if u really treasure ur weekend, trust me you will, so train up for a GOLD.
12 pullups, 2.4 below 9.40, sbj 234
For silver, 8 pullups, 2.4 below 11.40 sbj 225
Pray for my posting! As I was sharing in Sunday School today, I wasn’t part of the so called ‘top 30%’ in BMT, don’t know how they calc also, but they did mention that those people have a higher chance of going into command school. Pray for my posting as I want to get into OCS rather than go SCS or be a man.
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