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| by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Sunday, July 03, 2005, 2:50:00 AM | permalink |
We had a vehicle navigation exercise in the past week. Vehicle navigation's not really that different from navigating on foot, the same techniques of relying on compass and map still apply. The usual series of unfortunate events will occur too, so the briefing officer tells us."Gentlemen, I must remind all of you to be careful out there during the exercise. Look after yourself, don't get into accidents. Some parts of the area have not been fully explored yet, there are still a couple of villages somewhere in there. You don't believe me? Later some of you all will meet the villagers, especially in Area D, the Waidefa Ah Wee tribe. When you are somewhere there, you will stop, get off your vehicle, look at your map and say-The event itself was quite fun actually. On wheels rather than foot now, we leisurely zoomed up and down dirt tracks covering hundreds of metres no problemos, instead of past sweat and toil experiences where we dragged our heavy field packs and bodies inch-by-inch to the next checkpoint(s). Our course commander even allowed us to bring "civilian food items" along, so Oreos, Cadburies, and Pringles were aplenty. Wind in hair, snacks in mouth, the whole thing's like a holiday road trip. Our supervising sergeants even stopped at key points to hunt for durians and rambutans. The night time part of the exercise was a different story altogether. The briefing officer mentioned that being on a vehicle is both a convenience and a hassle. True, you move further and faster now, but here lies the problem. At night, every tree/track/junction looks the same, and before you can be sure, that last point's 300m away. Having said all this, all I can say is that I'm trying to justify my little mistake. OK, maybe a dozen of them. |
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I must admit that being a driver myself, the track road is almost similar at every other turn.
And I've also seen a MB290 tilt fourty-five degrees while trying to make a U-turn (dumb kid went wide and into a pit on the side of the track).
So take care when you're out there. And wave to the poor dudes in vehicles with mortars behind - one of them might just be me.
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@ times 9:53 AM, July 03, 2005
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i see.. who knows, i may see u in the future! which camp are u at now?
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Thomas @ times 8:24 PM, July 08, 2005
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