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[181106] POP mood

been 2 weeks since i've updated... kinnda lazy to post sometimes i guess... guess all of us tends to suffer from that kind of syndrome at times... the lazy fingers syndrome...

Well the Chemical Agent confidence test 2 weeks back was tiring and fun... indeed, it was a new experience.. the donning of the CA suit with the gas mask and cyclinder... it was extremely hard to breathe for one and of course it's damn suffocating inside the suit as well.. imagining having to forcefully breathe in just to allow air into your lungs and to make things worse was that if you breathe too hard, the whole maks gets plastered onto your face.. many a times, had to fight off the feeling of panic and the urge to rip the mask off the face... the tear gas stings, and it really chokes you really badly... as u try to speak, u start to choke and the tears and the mucous just flows down freely... indeed, an interesting experience indeed...

Final Exercise is finally over, an exercise to test our team work and all that we've learnt through the 7 weeks of Basic Rescue Training... and being appointed Final Exercise IC added to the responsiblity and stress factor of the Final Ex... well, im happy to say that i think overall the platoon did quite well in the final ex though i've overlooked certain aspects of the rescue operations most notably the evacuation of the casualties on the ground level and the fire fighting aspects.. imagining finishing 4 carbon dioxide and 2 water extinguishers and still the fire was burning.. kindda an embarassment for a NSF attached to Civil Defence...

Everything's finally over... SOC, IPPT, Final Ex, REPT, FAT, FFT... only thing left is the actual POP itself on wednesday... really looking forward to the POP itself... and the end of my recruit life at BRTC after which, most probably will be staying on at BRTC as an instructor seeing the hints that the corporals are dropping these days...

POP in 4 more days...

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