Okay, actually it's just POP. So......POP LO!!!!
Block leave here i come. More, later!
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POP day. Phew. Last, yes the very last day of a 10-week long BMT.
Got the ball rolling by a PT run in the morning. Nothing much took place in the day until route march was due. Instructor Koh had us do a pasar malam - laying out of fieldpack items - at the basketball court.
" I don't care how you do it, 30 secs camou on. Now! "
I squeeze the semi-liquid paste onto my palms and creamed up Angus' face, with him doing the same to mine.
" Whole lot, take a dip in divepool "
I thought it was actually fun. 31 batch ran to the pool and jumped in at the shallow end, with no.4 and boots and camou on, leaving the water slightly murky with runny camou off our faces.
And so, we started the 12-klick march with runny camou, waterlogged boots and being drenched to the skin.
POP-ed at Kranji War Cemetery, got our berets and we secured for the night.
But that wasn't all. Back at 29, it was a rush to get into our bookout-rig and then we had 9 mins to run all the way to the main gate to book out before it gets too late. And we did. Abrasions kicking in and all, we ran like it was another route march. Except that this one led to home and freedom.
