extremely distressed by new vocation

last SG · 2005-12-18T21:42:31+00:00

My first few weeks posted into 4 SIR was also quite bad... I was quite depressed, even though I have (and continue to have) a great buddy to talk to me every...

bismarck SG

i received my posting on fri and this new posting has been causing nightmares for me.

i just woke up from a afternoon nap and i woke up basically just screaming in fear. and i've lost quite abit of appetite, hair and sleep over my new vocation.

i really dunno how am i going to take it for the next 2 years

Sad

kuekj SG

what’s ur vocation? Try to adapt to it for the first few weeks. If you can’t, speak to your platoon commander and unit MO.

nightzip SG

so whats ur vocation? where? Very Happy

Icemoon SG

isn’t bismarck the author of the 1SIR topic? He is posted there.

Icemoon SG

you want to keng and see shrink issit? Laughing

My advice is .. accept it as a phase of your life. Look at the bright side.

nightzip SG

aiyah...1SIR only...me last time from 1SIR guillamard also mah...
nothing much...

but then better, since Guillemard very near city area, so nights-off or book out, can go orchard, cityhall etc. Very Happy

thoreldan SG

aiya dont worry lar..

training in infantry is more or less like this:
weapons training -> section training -> platoon training -> coy training -> battlion training -> brigade exercise (rare)

basically you must get use to walking long distance be it in the day time or thru-out the night.

during my time, i went to thailand (ex cresendo), brunei (ex lancer), taiwan (ex starlight)

It's not only you suffering.
From rifleman, to specialist, to officer, right up to you CO...will have to go thru those missions...

Remember that this a combat unit, not a training sch
the bond between man and commander is definitely stronger compared to instructors and trainee (if there is any to speak of Laughing )

tarutaru SG

Now very far in sembawang although it's a new camp

tarutaru SG

accept it u cannot change anything

thoreldan SG

it's at mandai hill. got time can go zoo, very near Mr. Green

Icemoon SG

to motivate bismarck a bit, let's just say that the rifleman is the most slack among the group. Section commander, platoon sergeant or platoon commander definitely have more to do than the man. Wink

kumokumo SG

I also need advise, cause i also got a friend kena 1SIR rifleman and knowing him very well, his not the type that would find any form of joy and motivation being there. His been super low ever since he read his posting. I too have been through this kinda mental torture whereby you wake up every morning feeling super shitty and low and it last throughout the rest of your day. Looking ahead you don't see any light because this lifestyle is gonna stay for a long time to come. I was lucky I only surfered for a couple of months before finding a way out, any longer I would have gone mental. But for him, his gonna be there for 1 year+ and I don't think there will be anyway out for him. His body is pretty perfect, no past injuries.

Not saying I want him to downgrade and get out, I know in the long run his gonna look back and say it has been a good experience, but I just wanna help motivate him to get through the initial stage of coping and adapting, not wanting him to suffer this mental torture for too long. yet I don't know what to say or do, it pains me to stand there helplessly watching him suffer, any advice to both of us?

thoreldan SG

what's wrong with being an infantry?

if everyone wants to be a storeman/driver/clerk, who's going to fight?

the bulk of servicemen will definitely be in combat vocation, be it infantry/armour/cdo/gds/etc...

if you think going to be riflemen is going to be sh|tty, what about your sgts/officers who need to go thru sispec/ocs respectively and get posted to infantry unit later? they confirm suffer more than the average rifleman right?

tarutaru SG

So whose fault is it for the posting? During BMT was told that the proficiency test did in CMPB determine the posting so those who not bother to do properly for the test will get infantry posting. Don’t know how true is that.

thinker SG

I am not sure whats your fear. If your fear is due to unknown training & exercises plans for the next 2 years (E.g. Over-rated the siongness) + your fear that you might not physically able to take it. My advice is all those thinking are uncalled for.

If what you are thinking is what I mentioned above, just follow these (Dun think of other things):

1. Dun think so much. Time to eat, eat. Time to play, play. Time to train, train, etc. Think day by day (Do not think/plan for wks/mths/yrs like in sch). Think positive and have fun with platoon mates.

2. Make more friends.

3. Enjoy your adventure.

The unit will train you to be fit, and assign each a weapon (training provided too Mr. Green ). There will be a lot of outfield camps - Group, Session, Platoon, Company, etc Levels outfield training (You may not like or used to outfield, but you will get season - Dun worry).

What I can say after going thru' is: WORRY IS UNNECESSARY (Dun waste brain cells or energy to think so much). Mr. Green

lemon1974 SG

Imagine how many people have serve NS and have been in infantry units as rifleman? or in guards units or commandos?

we have been through this and just try to take it easily. Dont worry too much.

bismarck SG

my visual acuity at night is damn farked up, though no night blindness(feels like 1 anyway)

having to do outfield exercises is making me stressed out.

i also dunno how to derive motivation and happiness

my parents are making it worse, they just accuse me of deliberately choosing this route

thinker SG

Dun worry or think too much. Enjoy your weekends and take 1 step at a time. Wink

kumokumo SG

Do you guys loose close friends during NS? Sometimes I am afraid a person can become too attached to his chiong sua mates(which I know is not wrong because of the shit they gone thru together), he will just slowly move away from his old friends to his new brothers.

Marco_Simone SG

When you report to 1 Sir?