SYC Day 3

Today's the last day in SYC before the pinnacle of this ICT, Live Firing of the FH2000 howitzer (Gun) in the Khao Meng Training Area (KMTA). We'd be staying in the camp area of KMTA together with the other folks from the supporting elements for the next 8 days.

It rained pretty heavily earlier in the evening. Not too sure if raining is a good or bad thing, especially since the Battalion Exercise / Live Firing is starting tomorrow....

Good thing because the weather is likely to be cooling and will not be dampening the already not too high morale of the exercise troops. The other side of the coin is that the wet weather is gonna worsen the terrain conditions further, forming mud pools everywhere, dampening everyone's spirits. This is ironically, quite contradicting of the fact that a cooling weather is always welcoming to the outfield personnels.

Anyway, back to the earlier downpour, it was raining sporadically, heavy, light and heavy again. It was hard to predict when, if at all, the rain will subside and eventually stop. What worsen the situation was that all 6 of us in the office had yet to have dinner and am famished by 8pm! 4 of us decided that enough is enough, pulled out our issued rain-jackets, tried keeping our essential items under the protection of the jacket and headed out into the rain towards the canteen.

This rain is a real eye-opener for me. Not that I've not encountered heavy rain before, but let me assure you this rain, no doubt the intensity may not be heavier than what might get in SG, the impact is, without a doubt, leaves a much deeper impression in my mind!

Heading into the heavy rain with a rain-jacket is nothing worth mentioning, it's the torrent of rainwater flowing towards you, some ankle deep, that I felt was worth a mention! Some water got into my boots and wetted my socks barely 100m into the walk, water landing on me flowed downwards, off the jacket and straight onto the lower portion of my trousers, wetting it from my thigh down.

Really hope the next 8 days will be smooth, without any accident in the field for everybody. This will ensure a peaceful time for the HQ Admin Group, the team I'd be attached to throughout the Exercise.

Oh, and please, give us cooling weather, yet no rain too. Thanks!!


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