live firing!!

this week was fun
well, the title said it all haha
yep, live firing,
the experience of getting to shoot an actual live round that could kill somebody
it was exhilarating, cause everytime the rifle went 'BANG!', you can see the target go down,
yet tiring cause we have to focus so hard on the targets and get into some awkward positions with the ILBV

Monday:
went to the IMT (individual marksmanship trainer) to get ourselves familiarized with the whole procedure of shooting
its this whole room like an arcade (i really mean that literally; its like playing time crisis or something), with modified SAR 21s and they do give actual recoils and stuff
well, that day went by in a blur, we shot for the entire day and it was actually quite easy to shoot lol,
even the night shoot there was super easy, as it was an illuminated screen so yea

Tuesday:
went for the practice shoot!
it was the first time we handled live rounds so i was a little scared i will screw up at first but everything went well in the end :)
platoon 1 was the duty platoon so our PS told us to go as the advance party
basically it was to do sai gang like help prepare the sandbags, clean the place a bit and stuff
did some zeroing by shooting the targets and such, and trying some of the positions we had to use to shoot
oh there was night practice too but that was quite screwed up cause it was too dark and i cant see if i actually hit the target or not
oh the ninja van came so we get to buy some snack and such :D

Wednesday:
actual test day!!!
woke up quite late, like 8
had breakfast, and went to range straight
details 1,2 and 3 went ahead to shoot first and in a blur, my detail (detail 2) had finished firing for the morning shot
i did quite well i think, they really werent kidding when they said that the SAR 21 was easy to shoot
missed none for practice shot (we were given 6 mags, 3 for prac then 3 for actual) but missed 1 for test
...ffffffffffffffffffffffff...
it was partly cause i was really tired from all the proning and squatting so i missed the second shot of my squatting actual shoot D:
then has lunch and in the afternoon was the standing shoot
quite happy i didnt miss any for that but that was to be expected lol
 i bought some drinks and sweets from ninja van (yea again, it came)
dinner was quick, we cleaned up all the RAIs and after the rain stopped we went for night shoot
we started at 7 so it was still quite bright, since detail 2 was the first few to go
missed one of my practice shots for the foxhole illum targets :/ but didnt miss for test so it was ok bah
at around 8.30 we went for the rest of the shots at 50m
the groundsheets were soaked in mud when we got there cause of the rain so everybody felt sian
was quite happy i didnt miss for the proning shots but thats when things got super wrong
i did aim properly with my laser and shot all the targets but then i didnt see the targets light up when you actually hit it
so in the end i may have missed all the 8 but who knows, a lot of people got this issue also
but if really they didnt register then wasted :/
i want my marksman D:
oh and during the metal detector check i got knocked 20 cause of a stupid 20cent coin in my pocket lol

thursday was a super slack day
woke up at 8 and cleaned our rifles will 11.30
then did courseware in the afternoon till 5.30 and fall in for dinner, then slack again lol
was quite an awesome day and was even more slack than the Sundays of the confinement period
so i got loads of time to read my book, read sword art online on my phone, listen to music, talk cock wit bunk mates
got too bored and even went down to do some pt lol

friday was like any other pt day
it felt really good to sweat after so long
swim was cut short due to rain and ST felt really good cause we didnt do CPT on the hard court and instead on the D-ring of the track, which didnt feel disgusting lol
then sergeant leroy forced us to do a OTOT run at night,
which was 5 rounds at (supposedly) 2 mins each with 30s rest in between while we wait for those slower ones to catch up
well, supposedly cause leroy just sped up after each round
from 2 mins to 1min50 to 1min40 and eventually 1min30
was quite contented that i can keep up, considering my 2.4 timing
was supposed to do OTOT with ravin, one of my bunk mates but we cancelled cause we were told staff (yea that staff sergeant that indirectly caused one of the recruits to down PES) was taking RT on saturday
so we went back up to talk cock and ravin was caught by leroy for trying to buy drinks without permission
then leroy gave permission to section 4 and the section 4 people came over to show us lol
leroy came in to talk cock with us also and it was super noisy, but it really showed how close we grew after 9 weeks

RT wasnt that bad
staff really took RT and we did 20 rounds around the MPH
then some games, some drills regarding the medicine ball and some competition thingy which is hard to explain here
it wasnt that bad cause we could still laugh about being able to lift our arms after all that so yea
then went to NUS for some talk
but when i reached it already ended so oh well

gonna choose my school soon, maybe next week
will spend time reading up on the modules and stuff

oh well kay thats all
IFC this week, hope it will be easy
kay bb