Dotz.
I see a lot of misinfo.
Take my typical day today, everybody say I kena chao-dah like
that. I spent the whole day under the freakin sun greasing
lar.....derusting lar. You think your ship can last long in the
seawater without mainteinance on the crew's part?
Even the weather also want to huan-dui, KNN I sweat under the
sun suddenly rain, kao.
It depends on vocation. As a gunner, I am expected to man the
.5MG machine gun rain or shine while sailing for as long as 6 hrs
straight with bullet-proof vest helmet blah blah. And as a gunner,
with my chief as a chief seaman as well, I am expected to support
his seaman stuff also, and that's a lot of physical involved.
Other vocations involve a lot of brain-work and
stress-management. Life is hardly fun.
Edit: Seasickness? Har! The MGB which was just decommissioned is
only 45+m. Really bad weather have to go home. The MCVs, PVs
are only slightly bigger. And even on frigates and LSTs still got
people puke like mad in bad weather. I myself feel like puking when
I do fire drills with the fireman suit and tank and mask and blah
blah in rough seas.
You say you sweat under the sun and then suddenly rain? You
really think that's tougher than army?? Let me give you a clearer
idea.
Army is also sweat under the sun suddenly rain + sweat under
sun/rain while walking 40 KM in a super thick uniform that doesn't
fend off the one million insects piercing through it AND carrying a
40kg+ full pack + a SAR 21 + leading 30 or 100 men (depending on
whether you are PC or OC) and getting them to listen to you +
managing the one million problems that crop up when you manage 30
or 100 men below the age of 20 who feel disgruntled and don't feel
that they're serving the nation or there for good reason (loss of
weapon, parts, men keng-ing ALL THE TIME).
That is even before the mission starts. you ever tried chiong
sua-ing in an army combat unit in INF, commando or guards before??
I am very sure you have not that is why you're the only one who's
naive enough to think navy is just as tough as army.
After the missions, when you are outfield for weeks, you lie
down on the ground, you get all sorts of disgusting insects
crawling into your uniform and biting your body all over, that's
normal. You drink river water. you eat strange insects and
processed food rations or your own processed food. Old soldiers
even have bunsen burners in their field packs when they go
outfield! You wear the same uniform to chiong sua in the jungle,
walking for miles in the wood for up to 9-12 days (the longest ATEC
I know) without access to what is now luxury - Bathing and Warm
Meals.
no matter how siong navy or airforce are, they always have
access to a decent bath everyday and warm meals. the life i
describe above is part and parcel of army life.
Do navy and airforce have to do all this?!
In army, you set up your own "tent" in the jungle when it starts
to pour as you sleep. You bathe naked out in the open along a row
of naked men in rundown overseas camps in overseas exercises. That
is army. And army is regimentation. Navy and airforce, I'm sorry
are more like nursery compard to army combat if you talk abt career
soldiers.
Please lah it's common knowledge. If army is not physically
tougher than navy or airforce, why is it that we always hear
everyone saying its MUCH LESS tough to sign on with navy and
airforce whenever they talk to people who signed on or interested
in signing on? You think there is no smoke without fire??!
And that's just the physical rigour bit. I haven't even talked
about the regimentation bit. Army is the most regimented service
among the 3 by a large margin. This much anyone who has ever had
anything to do with the SAF can testify.
You don't tell me regimentation doesn't mean it's not tough ok?!
Do you think such conscious incalcation of regimentation in a
soldier is needed if basic human instinct is to be disciplined and
obey authority without questions? Discipline and regimentation is
the counter intution of basic human instinct that is why it is
TOUGH. This is the meaning of regimentation. Renouncing your
personal liberty and rights in order to bow down without question
to a higher authority because you respect authority.
