5 weeks...
The re-orientation to military life started on April fool's and most of us were having problems (less a few "seow on" ones) getting adjusted to the regimentation and the "wayang" associated with people in green.
We did lots of menial sans-brain kind of work. "you have to go through it so that you will understand what your men go through and in so doing you can be better leaders" we were told.
There were many quotes from both the trainers and our own peers:
"you must understand that the situation is beyond your control and you must try to control it" ??
"if you don't know where you are, you will not know where you are going" deep...
"there are no bad men, only bad leaders"
"if I play b*stard..."
It was a fun time. You can never imagine how fast a person can change from one set of clothes to another with the mention of the word "fall out"...Although we were once again acquainted with the "rush to wait, wait to rush" way of doing things, I believe this period was a good time to get away from the reality of life and to take things slow and easy for a while. The physically demanding activities also made me realise how much I have aged and how poorly maintained I am...
Come next week and we will all be going back to our civilian duties and most of us will not meet another in our greens the next time we are recalled. I think i'll kinda miss this way of life for a little while as I adjust back to the civie way of doing things.
We did lots of menial sans-brain kind of work. "you have to go through it so that you will understand what your men go through and in so doing you can be better leaders" we were told.
There were many quotes from both the trainers and our own peers:
"you must understand that the situation is beyond your control and you must try to control it" ??
"if you don't know where you are, you will not know where you are going" deep...
"there are no bad men, only bad leaders"
"if I play b*stard..."
It was a fun time. You can never imagine how fast a person can change from one set of clothes to another with the mention of the word "fall out"...Although we were once again acquainted with the "rush to wait, wait to rush" way of doing things, I believe this period was a good time to get away from the reality of life and to take things slow and easy for a while. The physically demanding activities also made me realise how much I have aged and how poorly maintained I am...
Come next week and we will all be going back to our civilian duties and most of us will not meet another in our greens the next time we are recalled. I think i'll kinda miss this way of life for a little while as I adjust back to the civie way of doing things.
