Hi there, i am enlisting on June 5 2008 (which is next month )
under Obese BMT Batch. My BMI is 27 and the Medic
graded me as PES BP. Right now I am training real
hard to shed off that extra weight as well as buffing myself up for
the trainings in Tekong. I would consider myself as borderline
over-weight .
A brief summary about myself :
Just graduated from Temasek Polytechnic (20yrs old this
yr)
I failed my NAPFA test.
Although i am borderline over-weight, i am still able to pass my
NAPFA test items other than pull up (i passed my
2.4km run n etc)
ok, for the main thing now is whether I am still able to
sign on as an Officer ( Either as a combat officer / WSO
Fighter / UAV) during my BMT? What worries me is that I am in
Obese BMT Batch and I am afraid that there is no OCS intake for
Obese BMT Batches. I've already made up my mind about taking up a
military career .
I am confident that i can pass my IPPT / SOC during the
trainings in BMT. Although i heard the trainings in Obese BMT are
quite slack, but I am still ready and willing to chiong .
Like i mentioned above, I am mentally prepared for it, but will
chances be given to us that are in Obese BMT batches? moreover I am
interested in signing on.
*by the way this is my virgin post =p Senior forum members /
officers / old birds n new birds please share your views !
I was from the obese BMT too. And I am a commissioned
officer. If you like to sign on, you should consider the career
prospect instead. Like someone had mentioned, if you only have a
diploma, the prospect is quite limited, unless you plan to further
studies. However, if I'm not wrong, the current plan, the mandatory
retirement age for officer is 42. So you have to think what are you
going to do after that. Or you intend to sign on only for a few
years.
I don't know nowadays obese training, but during my time, it is
not suppose to be slack, it suppose to have a lot of weight-loss
programme. Like endurance run etc. But, someone in my company died
during the training, so physical training was put on halt for some
time due to the tragic incident. When I entered into OCS, to me
it's a culture shock, 'cos I didn't even get to do SOC during my
BMT. And as cadets, we were expected to clear SOC under 9min 30sec.
My best time for SOC was 8min 51sec.
To me, physical fitness like chin-ups, trust me, no issue one.
From today onwards, you everyday go find one chin-up and do 1 set
of your maximum repetition, trust me, can do one. I am 95kg now
(shame shame, weight bounces back), I can still do 9 chin-ups.
Chin-ups is not about sudden burst of brute force, is actually more
on your muscle endurance to stress (in this case, hanging onto
something). If you're moderately obese, I'm sure you should be
quite big size too. You have the mass, make use of it, train it.
You sure can do it one. Have faith in yourself.
I'm sure you have heard of combat fitness. my experience is
that, after you really train and shed weight during BMT, it's
really not much of a challenge for you to carry heavy stuff and
endure rough terrain. 'cos it's like putting on your weight back
like that. 'cos we are used to heavy weight le.
The important thing that your instructors will like to see you
in BMT is really your positive attitude, cohesiveness, being
decisive and determination.
Good luck.
