More tekong stories ... afterall i was there for 8 whole months
training, and got to know lots of people who later stayed on as
instructors.
All accounts are 2nd to 3rd hand, and in all cases i know the
person involved personally. Seems tekong still isn't "clean"
despite all the "yang" energy on the island.
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Just a weird one to start things off ...
My sispec section had finished a night section exercise. We checked
ourselves clear, had all our expended cartridges collected while
still outfield. Then we had our arms cleared by our instructor
using his torchlight, then was declared and searched (blah blah
usual).
As we walked back to our coy line, we passed our canteen. My
trigger-happy section mate was playing with his trigger all the
while we were walking. It was going "click click click ..." as
there was nothing in the M16 chamber. Suddenly, his rifle just went
*bang* and I saw a flash come out of his M16 as if he had just
fired a blank round. Yet his ejector port was still closed.
I was rather near beside him on his right. If he had loaded his
rifle while on the way back i would have known. If he had been on
safe mode, then suddenly put it to fire and squeezed off I would
have known too. If he closed the ejector port after firing off, I
would have seen it too. Furthermore he had no reason to firing off
so near our instructor and risk burning 3 weekends for
mis-firing.
The strange thing was that we could not find the expended cartridge
anywhere at all. It was a big main road, and was rather well
lighted by the streetlamps. But still all our 9 plus pairs of eyes
couldn't find that one cartridge.
In the end, we all pretended nothing happened that night and went
back to our coy line.
***
A case similar to Joshua1975's "gui zher yan" experience in Tekong.
I was in sispec then, same thing my coy was doing uncontrolled
torpor. But this case happened in bright daylight. A particular
group was doing torpor (area i forget liao), and they just could
NOT get of this certain area. Mind you it wasn't in the vegetation,
it was a open place with roads. But no matter how they walked, they
seemed to be circling the area. All 4 members of the group were
torpor-trained and had maps/compasses ...
In the end they just gave up and sat down on the road. After some
time a safety rover stopped in front of them, and the group kena
f*** for non-tact behavoir, and for actually sitting down in the
middle of a road. From that point, whatever spell over the area
seem to be broken, and the group could finally walk out of that
area.
***
Some of my friends got posted to BMTC as instructors and I heard
some of their personal stories. Apprently the bridge along the
School 1 SOC ground is "dirty". My friend (or one of his prowlers i
can't remember) actually saw white figures of what looked like
children playing underneath it at night.
And they're not the only ones to see all white figures that same
bridge. There are a few stories about that place. Some claimed that
they had seen a female white figure, some say japs and so on
...
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A freaky one ...
My friend (let's call him B) was doing guardcom in his aircon room
when he saw an old man on 1 of his circuit TVs. It was rather late
at night then, so he radio-ed the prowlers to go there to check it
out. Upon arriving there, the prowlers radio-ed back and claim that
there was nobody there at all. But B could still see the old man on
the CCTV.
Thinking that the prowlers were playing a trick on him, B went down
personally to the spot, but it was as his prowlers said, there was
nobody there. B, puzzled, radio-ed back to his guard-2IC and asked
him if he could see the old man.
His guard-2IC radio-ed back "He's right above you all ..."
And they all fled the spot.
