Been sometime since I pass out, didn't realise that Ex Long Walk
has been chopped up so much. During my time in 90s, my team started
in Mandai, walk around there and Sembawang, pass by SLE (under
construction at that time), Woodlands, Marsiling and Kranji area,
walk alongside railway line and cross Kranji Dam to Neo Tew, Lim
Chu Kang. The average time taken for each team to complete was 24
hrs. My team came in at 27 hours. Started on Friday morning,
finished on Saturday afternoon. Based on an average of 4km/hr, the
total distance covered was somewhere between 90 to 100 km. While it
isn't a route march, it is still a considerable distance to be
covered. Chaffed thighs and big blisters on foot was the norm at
midpoint and end point of Long Walk. At times, we even have to fast
march. This is because we were walking on the main axis as we did
not want to take the big detour.
Wonder if the recce trooper course still go overseas? My coy went
to Thailand for 3 weeks for the final phrase. As usual navex are
plenty. My team pushed off at about 1100 hrs at 40 degrees, came
back to Sai Yok Camp the next day at about 1400 hrs. So all in all,
we did the 90+ km navex twice.
Anyway, kudos to all those who did all sort of navex and route
marches (whatever distance).
