Becoming fabulous

The highlight this week featured Field Craft, also known as IFC (Individend Field Craft) is centered around skills that will be required during field camp, such as building shelter, camouflage, tactical movement as well as combat drills. In short, we spent almost an entire day rolling around the ground, building bashas (tents), and most interstingly, applying camouflage and concealment

Applying Makeup, Soldier style

Ever wanted an all in one concealer, foundation and lipstick? Well, the army has exactly what you are looking for! Also known as "Leaf Green Camouflage", this revolutionary beauty product will conceal all of your flaws like dark spots, scars and even unsightly blackheads! Your face will be transformed into a sight to behold, so much so that everyone else's faces will all be green with envy. Try it today!!!

I kid

Away from the witty advertisement, applying camo was not exactly the best experience. With the order for camouflage to be on in 5 minutes, all over our face (including neck, ears and lips) we literally had to eat camo, smear it all across our faces and sometimes into our eyes. Yes, even lunch was camo tinted rice. Applying camo was easy. Squeeze a generous amount of camo, slap it on your face and eat it. But getting it off at the end of the day felt like scrubbing a stubborn coffee stain off a white shirt. The camo also had a biting sensation a while after applying it. Also, I've never tried lipstick before but green lipstick, will do the direct opposite to lip balm/gloss/stick/whatever. My lips became dry. And green.

Arti! Arti! Arti! Incoming incoming incoming!

Movement and combat drills were another part of our training. These included reacting to contact from enemy soldiers to artillery fire. For someone watching from afar who doesn't know what's going on you might think us crazy. These drills mostly entailed rolling on the ground, getting up and getting down; basically looking like clowns. 

IFC in short, was an interesting experience. For the first time, I understood that physical fitness and combat fitness are worlds apart and, I got a taste of what life is going to be like in field camp. I apologise for a sub standard post this week as uni open houses burnt most of my precious weekend (I wrote this from my bunk on tekong). Next week: live firing!