27th BSLC
SISPEC after BSLC can also become a recce specialist..
Just to tell you more about being in recce
Recce stands for REConnaisanCE and it is all about looking for the
enemy and confirming the enemy sizes and locations just before your
unit attacks.
During your BSLC course there is this survey form your pl mates
will fill to say who is better at satcom, sniper, recce... if your
name quite high on recce, and a unit decides to come to sispec to
look for recce specs then you might go for an interview.
Should you choose to say yes, after BSLC you'll be posted
straightaway to that unit. (1SIR for me).
There are 2 main kinds of recce specialists. Both are combat.
the first is a scout. that is on a battalion level. the 2nd is a
brc (brigade recce company) specialist. in my opinion, scout is
more xiong. always got a lot of mission and exercise. brc is more
slack because they mainly only take part in brigade exercise which
are very very few.
for you new PTE's who dunno the diff between battalion and brigade,
for now just accept that battlaions are the SIRs and SARs (1sir,
42sar ... 6sir) and the brigades are the SIBs (8sab, 2sib...)
Life as a recce spec : tough training at first. the school of
military intelligence, SMI (really fkked up place) will conduct
recce commander course(RCC). very xiong. trust me. but will really
make you very tough.
when your men come (the cpls and lcps) you all will go for your
scout platoon, brc course. which is a toned down version of the RCC
for your entire platoon/company. Also at SMI.
Exercises : A lot of freedom. the rest of the unit always have to
show alertness like wear helmet all the time. must sleep in
intervals, 33% alert all that crap. but recce is BO CENG HOO! so
nobody will touch you. in a team of 4 people, the 3SG is the one
who call the shots. but in a team of 4 people, you have to be good
enough not to get lost (we usually bring our GPS, which we bought)
and strong enough to carry the spirits of everyone else cos you are
SO INDEPENDENT. Then there are amneties like
-no need wear helmet (but SMI makes you carry them around)
-no need dig shellscrape / firetrench (but SMI makes you. told you
they are fukkked up)
Comments : expect shittt like "you're the scouts. you're the pride
of the battalion. you're the elite" when you are not really that
power. the pride that everyone else wants to instil in you will
never be. Instead me and my mates found our own sense of
pride.
A pride of doing something special. very few people will get to do.
Our pride of being true to ourselves and our platoon. Our pride of
having to be close brothers when a lot of people in the unit like
to jeer at us (yes they do)
