Armour's Elite

At least that's what it says on the badge.

Exciting week. Posted to Armour from SCS last week, was to report to Sungei Gedong camp. Met Shun Xiang and Charles there, my good friends from BMT and SCS, and we all lamented on becoming armour infantry. Went to reception to sign against our names. First clue, my name wasn't there. We jokingly brushed it aside and continued on. Getting to the form up point, we notice a lone figure standing off to the side with a piece of paper. He's asking those passing by if their name was on the paper. Most people look curiously and leave. I break off from my group to check it out, and surprisingly, my name was on it. I'm immediately pushed into a lecture theater with a  few other bored people. There's a nominal roll going around. The vocation title is Tank Ldr, second clue. When everyone arrives, the staff sergeant tells us we're going to be Tank Commanders. Strike three. At this point, it seemed like a surreal dream.

So they sent us over to do some psychomotor tests. There were 24 of us there. The tests were actually somewhat challenging, even for all my years of video games. The instructors' faces could be craved from stone, this was clearly serious business. 3 failed, 2 nearly so. Those who failed went back to Armour Infantry with a memory, in exchange for 3 others. With that, we were officially tankees, armour's elite. Joined the Tank Commander Wing.

Our training is gonna be 20 weeks, including an overseas operation and CAT term in SCS. The schedule is super packed. The lessons, actually quite difficult, almost NUS High standard. Our accommodations are pretty nice, working washing machine, a recreation room with TV, 8 people per bunk. The showers are kinda warm too, not hot, but not ice cold either.

Unfortunately, no one else whom I know made it. For the first time, no NUSHS, no BMT, no SCS. I'm completely on my own now. My buddy is a pretty nice guy though. He's a regular, done infantry pro term already lol, he's gonna be a 3SG next friday. He's going through TCC too. He was a pilot drop out, so he's pretty good at everything. Rivals me in technical skill and knowledge haha.

The Leopard tank is still a pretty new thing, not many Leopard tank crews out there, so a lot of the training is  secret, so I can't write too much about it here. Very easy to get confined in TCW. Even just dozing off is confinable, so is failing any tests. Ms Sie's house next week, so must try my very best not to get confined XD Not easy when next week, we're learning to drive the 55 ton behemoth. Bloody hell. Not even a basic theory test here, just get right in and drive the damn thing.

Feeling pretty guilty right now. Everyone's birthdays are coming and going, and I haven't even started present shopping yet. Oh well. Hopefully I'll get some time to go next week.