ICT - 3rd day

The 7th ICT is basically the first part of a 2 part series where your unit is tested based on several areas. This first part, 12 days in total, test each individual on their skills which are required to be competent in their own role and vocation.

Time
Okie, back to the crap part. Though training program is filled with revision, mockup tests, revisions, mockup test, actual test and re-tests but a siginificant amount of time is free. The first part is a easy one, so 游手好闲 无所事事 虚度光阴 becomes mundane. Counting days, hours, minutes and seconds is a no no, therefore checkpoints/milestones daily is essential. Lunch, Dinner and Sleep are good checkpoints. So basically, there are 36 checkpoints in a 12 day ICT.

Food
Though gone are the days where the cooks are either active/regulars, basically eating food from people who do not know how to cook. Those days, food basically are 5 letter word, starts with "S" and ends with "S", it SuckS !!!! Very soon, SFI took over, and it gradually became more edible, though more improvements are needed. But since we only eat those food around 2 weeks in a year, usually not much complaints to those old days food.

Usually, the first meal and one meal towards the end has the better food items. This time round, first meal was fried spring chicken, french fries, beans, some kind of chowder soup, walls ice cream. I have to mention the fries, because it is basically taste like "slient stick", probably deep fried wrongly or maybe over and over and over and over and over ...... again

Nights Off/Stay out
Most people I knew, their reservists are stayed out by default. Somehow, ours is not. Meaning daily, a decision is made on whether it is a nights off ? stay out ? till when ? for married personnel ? for everyone ? This time round for the first time, everyone gets to stay out during a weekday. *Finally they decided that even not married personnel has a life outside*
And I got a ride home in one of my platoon's mate car whom stay close to me. Somehow, the 2 days inside made it like we have not stay out in the outside world for decades. And of course, you have to wake up earlier than the rooster so that we can get back to camp real early, somehow worth it as well because of the ride back to camp as well :)

To be continued .....