*Well, the money actuali comes from the NCC Fund(MOE CCA Branch,
SAF & through NCC yearly fund raising programs). For the
Course, i had to fork out $100 of my own money(non-refundable).The
pioneer badge was made of teens as old as 20, i was the youngest
back then (17). In fact most of the pioneer badge for Exercise
Lancer have gone thru ns, 1 made it thru commando, another in the
police n the rest i've lost touch.
*Nope we didn't go there to justwatch tripflare or any
pyrotechnics, we were there for training.In fact, we didn't even
know that we were to go there for jungle training as during the
pre-briefing before Lancer, we were told that we would be only
visiting and sight seeing Brunei and get in touch with their Brunei
Cadet Force(BCF).About the Alarm mine that you all see, that's the
one we learn to set up and disarm from RBAF personels.
*Here's a list of what we did for the 10/11 days:
1)We depart from CIA via SAF SIA chartered flight.My NCC was placed
under
Packet 9(Those who went thru JCC, (Commandos,OCT's & regulars
will know
about this).When we arrive at BIA, NCC was transfered 1st to
Transit Camp
(Jalan Aman Camp) while SAF personels were sent sumwhere else,i
Don't
know.
2)From Transit(Jalan Aman Camp), we were den send to Lakiun Camp.
For the
first 3 days there, we joined SAF personels for Pre-Jungle Training
made of
Pacing exercise,Casevac Briefing and stuff,Navigation Exercise(the
5
checkpoints,the last one dat i took was hard approximately 1
click(1km) from
the 4th checkpoint),heli planning & deplanning drills,small
animal & birds
& bird traps,basic knowledge on jungle plants(datz where i know
CB leaf)
,pyrotechnics practise(smoke grenade,pen flare and stuffs),
visited
Mount Biang(the locals don't refer to it as Mount But instead as
"Hill",Had to
go thru practical and demo in the mock up SAF "Jungle
Village"before we
were certified ok to go for actual jungle training. Oh ya our
Instructor was
JCC Training Cadre, Commando CPT Brandon.A lot of stuffs i forgot,
sorry.
3)On the 4th day,we were transfered from SAF Lakiun Camp to
RBAF's
Penanjong Camp and later in the afternoon To RBAF's Bangar Camp.
At
Bangar we got in touch with the BCF & RBAF
4)Next day we were heli-lift with RBAF's Blackhawk to Landing
Point,LP311
which was located in Kg. meriam, 7km plus in temburong jungle
itself. We
were escorted by JCC training cadre, CPT Brandon from Commando, SSG
Izil
from Guards and RBAF's Officers,Wo's,Specs & OCT,Ranger. Down
there we
had actual practise of wat we have learnt from SAF plus new stuffs
taught
to us by RBAF's jungle training cadre. We had Night Navex, actual
practical(
make traps, shelter, plants identification and try out (we dig out
wild
tongkat ali also), tactical & non tactical jungle movement,
learnt how to
obtain water), jungle shooting using RBAF's M-16 A2 if im not
mistaken with
a couple of magazines of 20 live rounds each, Casualty evacuation
exercise
(CASEVAC),pyrotechnics demo & practical from RBAF's inventory.
We were
also issued with some SAF's MRE's. On the last day we did area
cleaning and
trekked out tactically of the jungle with our over 30+ kg load
& issued
weapon. The trek was 7 click(7km) where we had to go thru 7 small
hills
which was higher then bukit timah and crossed 2 river before we
reach
back civillisation.
5)The final 1 & half days we spent our time for R&R where
we went to
Jerudong Theme park, Water Village, museums & short shopping
trip.
Basically that's all that i can remember for now on the training
that i went thru. There's more to it dat i need time to recall. Im
sorry if my post is too long. Just wanna help & explain a
little bit. 