Part II:
Possible postings after Basic Engineer Course include:
- School of Armour ( Armour Engineer )
- 35th SCE ( Amphibious Engineers )
- 36th SCE ( Explosives and Ordinance Disposal )
- 39th SCE ( NBC Engineers )
- Plant Engineers ( Operate dozers and other heavy equipments
)
- Field Engineers (
Okay, the reason I said you very heng is because, it is the most
siong of all liaoz. The most relax should be plant engineers. The
field engineer course is about 3 months long. So this is the 2nd
longest path to your 3sgt rank after the Armour Sepcialist course.
In this field engineer course, you'll learnt advanced theories and
alot of outfield exercises. Stuffs like:
- Live demolition of charges less than 10kg in Singapore.
- Construction of beach obstacles
- Construction of underground Battalion Command Post.
- Construction of underground Battalion Collection Station.
- Construction of very big bridges for tanks and vehicles to
cross.
- Learn to do basic engineer surveys.
- Assault breaching of various types of obstacles.
- Overcoming Anti - Tank Ditches.
- Launch / retrieve Class 30 Trackway.
- Road mine sweeping
- Go to Ex Crescendo with the officer cadets from CTW for summary
exercise together.
In Ex Crescendo, specialists trainees will train together with the
officer cadets for a common summary exercise. Officer roles and
senior roles like CSM will be played by cadets and specialist
trainees will be sect comds and PSs. The rest who doesn't have a
role will be men irrespective if you are cadets or specialists. I
really like this collaboration because this helps us see how cadets
trains and they see how us trains. And of course, along the way,
you will make great friends with them too. But beware too, those
cadets instructors will be able to f*** you too if you screw up!
And the best thing of Ex Crescendo is that you will be able to fire
virtually unlimited amount of demolition ( < 10kg ). It is here
that you really feel the shock and awe of demolition! Really
fantastic. After the 6 day summary exercise, everyone will have 2
days RnR and visit the SOP places before getting your ass back in
Singapore. hehehe...
I hope this helps. Join the Field Engineers if you really like to
blow shit up! hahaha... I REALLY like demolition.
After you finished your field engineers course, the only combat
roles you'll be posted to will be limited to
- Infantry / Guards Pioneer platoon
- 30SCE
Otherwise, you'll either end up as instructors in the School of
Combat Engineers or become Admin / Ops Specialists withing the
engineer formation. And of course, you get your 3Sgt FINALLY.......
