If you are posted to Sungei Gedong, you must be very fortunate.
The SAR play ground just behide you and everyday you can hear some
other unit vehicle firing blank
Too bad nearby LCK & Sarimbun kena cleared land or
redevelopment. Last time, the whole area was already ulu but at
least still have remnants of the old riverline settlement (&
the mismatched HDB flats at Neo Tiew, of course). Many a M113 used
to convertly "nudge" the fruit trees in the abandoned orchards
there! Dunno if it's still done now, but my unit used to rumble
into the LCK & CCK cemeteries to stay for the night too. Talk
about waking up the dead! Worse yet, must do OP the whole night on
the lonely paths facing into the graveyard ~lol~
or active units, only 40 n 46 SAR are Ultra ABG
both are under the 3rd division.
The Armour units form their own brigades (8 SAB, 54 SAB, 56
SAB), & that's probably the highest level NSFs will identify
with at most, if at all. Everyone in the formation wear black
berets, for a start. You'll be conscious about the DIV structure
only upon entering reservist, or was posted to HQ Formation or
something.
Is it true that people have to use shovels to remove the crews'
remains if the APC's armour is penetrated?
Humour aside, I've seen first-hand how surprisingly flimsy the
M113 armor was during the mid-80s -- dunno if they've upgraded it
since. One of my BTY detachments was wiped out (1 dead, 4
casualties, only the driver unhurt) due to a M203 round which the
dead guy supposedly found & concealed after a live-firing EX.
The damage to the vehicle -- it'd accidentally detonated from
inside -- was quite devastating.
