the army these days is easy peasy compared to the stuff we went
through...
and what i went through was soft compared to the time the Israelis
trained us... and i was from the then infamous Echo Company of
Tekong... OC had a Red Beret and did everything, including the SOC,
Log PT and Route Marches with us, leading the way with a randomly
packed fullpack from the recruits who were not medically cleared to
march...
i remember him tell us "this is not the way to do the Leopard
Crawl... i need a rifle!"
he took a rifle from a recruit, and crawled up Botak Hill, ran down
and told us "now, THIS is the way we will do it!"
we had to.. he was leading by example..
do we still have officers like that?
