Ironically, I think it’s the clerks.
If you’re stuck behind a desk for 2 years, it’s really a very
big waste of your life. At least in a unit, you get to see some
scenery change once in a while.
Shack and siong while outfield and you can curse and swear while
suffering, but you really learn a lot of stuff and have quite a bit
of fun.
Ended up in BRC, but while I was there, and some of
the people there can be real dicks, the courses were very very fun.
Bike riding, POW training, survival, rappelling, river
crossing, engineering, you get to do a lot of things. Sat every
transport heli the SAF had (UH-1 yes I’m that old,
Puma, Chinook), raced with kangaroos on a bike in Wallaby, froze my
butt off in Rockhampton at night, sneak into village coffeeshop in
Thailand to buy drinks then have the brigade commander and HQ stop
outside the coffeeshop for a drink while we were hiding in the
back, damn funny days.
If you ask me to take a clerk job for 2 years and see the same
ming chao chao boss’s face every day, I’d go crazy. Rather go
outfield.
all right man...was with the combat engineers as cheap labour,
doing bridging and digging trenches...have exactly the same
experience in village coffeeshop in kanchanaburi, and the shop
keepers knew exactly what to do...
those who sit behind desks for 2 years become weaker everyday,
those who take on the siong vocation become stronger when they go
through the test...there is no reason why we can't take on the
test!!
