Ok. 4th September 2008 - the start our three day long senior specialist course. Prior to the course, we had a course briefing and we practiced our arms drills and foot drills. Who are we? We are Jeremy Tang, Jeremy Chitty, Kenneth Goh, Nicholas Fung and Muhd Akid. We saw senior spec with mixed feelings, some of us were eager some of us were nervous.
Day 1: As me and Chitty walked into the camp and booked in, we could already feel the seriousness of the course. Everyone was eager to create a good first impression. Everyone was showing high standard. We split into our respective companies. Chitty was solo-ing in Echo Company. Me, Akid, Tang and Kenn were put into Foxtrot Company although I was in a different platoon. Tang, Kenn and Akid were lucky. They were in the same platoon. Well, in the morning, we had talks on the roles of the USM, words of command and pace stick drill by 1WO De Silva, SM NCC. The talks were interesting and we learnt a lot from it. Now, we now the proper way of giving a drill and how to use a pace stick properly. After lunch, we began lessons on advanced arms drills. We didn’t even hear of these drills before. Examples are Tatang Senjata, Bimbik Senjata, Baring Senjata, Angkat Senjata, Kaleh Senjata and so on and so forth. The purpose of us learning these drills is to make drills in school more interesting. It was followed by advanced foot drills. This included the official way of getting onto parade and the proper way of forming a “U”-shape formation. We will try to show these to you guys if we have time. We carried out our pace stick drills after that and dinner followed soon. The first came to a close with drill revision and night snack.
Day 2: Reveille at 6. Fall in at 6.30. Breakfast and then the much dreaded drill test. We started with foot drills. I didn’t feel very confident after my foot drill mutuals but after seeing how the others fared...... Never mind. As we had so much time, we did our arms drill mutuals and I can SAFELY that I redeemed myself. Lunch was a happy affair as we had finished our tests. Well almost. The NCC Air cadets were busy revising for their air syllabus test. In the afternoon, SM talked to us on the “illegal badges” and how to pin badges on the uniform properly. Then, he talked to us on organising a school parade. As usual, we found his talks very interesting. After dinner, the NCC Air cadets went to the theatrerette to revise our air syallbus. At this point, a sir( I shall not name who )gave us a big hint on what was coming out. We were overjoyed. When we sat for our paper, we found the hint most helpful. Thank you sir! After the paper, Maj Gary asked us on out school training programme and gave us helpful ideas and suggestions. Night snack and a briefing for the last day followed.
Day 3: Fall in at 6.10 with all bedding items and in half uniform. Breakfast followed by returning to bunks and collecting our belongings and heading to the MPH. The graduation ceremony took place after the
Written by: SSG Nicholas Fung
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