MiZ in Weekdays 13: ATEC Stage 2

MiZ Speaks
Ok, I'm feeling quite tired to write blogs today or to modify the journal from Bebo, so I decided to copy the journal entries over here to give a short detail about what happened that week.

16 May 2005
The 1st day of ATEC Stage 2. As like the past outfield, we had to wake up early to draw arms. After that, we had to prepare what we need to prepare.

Well, we had turn-out at about 8.30am, but we only moved out at about 1pm, even though we were the advance party (which also moved out at about that time). The weather was somewhat cooling that day, so line laying were not as exhausting as other outfield. The heavy TES set strain my back and neck though.

After finishing laying all the lines, we started to mann exchange. While HJ on duty, I accompanied him and chat with him. After that, we switched over. After my duty was over, I decided to have a sleep first before my next duty.

Woke up at about 11.30pm, even though it was not really my turn for duty. Could not sleep that time as I had blocked nose. I noticed that CC had being manning exchange for more than the usual 1h, so I thought of taking his duty over and let him sleep, but he said that he wanted to continue. In the end, we end up chit-chatting until someone called on the line to tear down the line.

17 May 2005
Nothing much happening though. As the 3 commanders and Victor were away to do rebro, HJ and SJ volunteered to be the vehicle commander at that time. Mid-way during our journey, we had to dismount from the tonner as the tonner was needed to get to a platform with two boats on the side to cross the water body. Well, we sat on the side of the platform while crossing it. We reached the destination quite late though. After that, we did our usual outfield routine in BnSA. The 3 commanders and Victor only came back in the afternoon.

18 May 2005
Nothing much happening in the afternoon as well. Did a modified "routine" in the morning while with BnSA, while the 3 commanders and Victor was away for rebro.

In the afternoon, Victor came back and told us that we need to lay the line again later as we were going back to the laager site. TIRED!!! Well, we also had shortage of lines as well, as we did not bring that many RL11, Drum 1 and Drum 2 for the exercise. In the end, when we were at laager site, we only laid 1 line for CP and another line for Scorpion OC. AS the other lines were not really important. We were supposed to lay to BCS as well, but as they were somewhere else, we decided not to lay them.

At night, while manning exhange, we chit-chat with one another. Well, I talk to CC the most during that night. Hmm... got to know even a lot more about him while talking.

While I had my time talking with CC, RQ suddenly came up and asked us to packed the remaining stores outside the tonner immediately and said that we were moving out very soon. He seemed quite fierce at that time... Kind of sudden though...

19 May 2005
We moved to the BnSA very early in the morning. After reaching BnSA, the 3 commanders and Victor went out for rebro again, leaving the 4 of us behind.

CC and I decided to become the vehicle commander, since there were no commanders around then. Thought that we were going back to camp and about 10+am, but we had to stop at one place and set up as BnSA for some unknown reasons for me. In the end, the exercise only cut at about 1+pm and we only got back to camp at about 3pm.

After we reached back camp, we had to unload all the stores from the tonner into our signal storeroom. Quite tiring while packing up stores. After that, we went back to bunk to do our personal post ATEC admin stuff.

In the evening, JR wanted to order pizzas into the camp, so I decided to asked him to count me in as well. Well, I volunteered to collect pizzas with CC later, and JR went to ATC cookhouse to collect ice for the drinks given with our orders.

20 May 2005
In the morning, we had to consolidate all our TES sets, real rifle magazine, dummy magazines, dummy grenades and the air-bags as we had to send those equipments back to those people in-charge. After that, we were asked to help to carry the tentage set to the storeroom. Did nothing much in the afternoon though.

After our dinner, we had breifing by our BSO. After that, we had to prepare stores for the NDP rehearsals the next day. Hmm... I wonder why the "train" did not want to do all those in the afternoon when we had nothing much to do. While preparing those stores, I was already quite sleepy and tired...