Friday was bookout day, saturday was bookin day, yesterday was bookout day, today is bookin day. Proof of a screwed up schedule =p
Anyway, yesterday was our first live firing in the Specialised Phase, where we dealt with advanced demolition techniques, and played with a few (very costly, may I add) explosive, er, weapons, namely the Projected Line Charge and Area Defence Munition (aka the mother of all claymore mines). Each cost about 10k dollars, and I was one of the three given the "honour" to fire off that much taxpayers' money in the form of an ADM.
The PLC was fun to watch and feel. Basically a rocket dragging 100 grenades is launched when the device goes off, and the resulting detonation of the 100 grenades is truly a sight to behold (actually, not really. It's just flames and lots of smoke), and you can feel the resulting shockwave as well. As for the ADM, there wasn't really anything to watch since we had to be under cover, but the shaking of the ground was there as well heh.
Later in the day we watched the firing of the smoke pots, which basically are huge pots that look like those Anlene tin cans. Upon ignition, each just burns and produces thick fumes of smoke for about 20 minutes... and I mean thick smoke. We ran around trying to avoid the smoke as the wind direction changed heh.
Too bad the day had to be ruined by the loss of key number 14, the key to the bunk of Nirmal and our "favourite" Paul Lim. Warrant Chew didn't allow any of us to book out unless the key was found. We got all frustrated because after spending quite some time searching, we still couldn't find the key. I got more frustrated after hearing Paul's story. Apparently they had left the key hanging on the door after opening their bunk the previous night, and apparently they heard someone taking the key in the middle of the night. Now, who leaves their key in the door when they open their house's door? And, who the heck will continue to sleep when they hear someone taking their key? Eventually, they found the key in the storeroom... which was a very unlikely place to find a key. Warrant Chew was very sure it was a case of "sabotage" by one of us, and everyone got very angry at the anonymous prankster hiding amongst us. Morale dipped lower when our book in timing for today was brought earlier to 2130, probably as a form of punishment >=(
Oh well, at least we got to book out, though our bookout was delayed by more than an hour. It's getting harder to find motivation and keep morale high in ETI =/
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