Friday, August 04, 2006
surviving 21st ERS course (week 16 out of 24)
This week, we took a sneak preview of the prologue of our 'Final Judgement'... ...
Monday wasn't that blue after all. Lecture in the morning then some of us (including me =p) went for the rehearsal for the CD skills competition which would be held on Friday. After lunch, we were
Tuesday was quite slack as well - lecture the whole day (as usual) and SOC conditioning after lunch. Luckily I had rehearsal, if not...=p We had our introduction to PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) for HazMat. Since some of us were called up for the rehearsal, the PPE lesson was pushed back to a later time. That's why we had to continue the practical part after our dinner. Had to wear both the TLU (Trellchem Limited Use suit) and LDS (Light Decon Suit) in turns and had to carry stretcher with 4 64mmx20m hoses of a distance of about 100m-150m.
Wednesday was our first 2 lessons on our field exercises. In the morning was our basement fire exercise. Fortunate or not, I was appointed to be the Sect. Comd. 2 and was in the search and rescue team. Starting was bad enough as I went into the incident entrance site without first tying the guideline before going in. The 2nd mistake was I (don't know why) started to untie the guideline on the way out. But we were good enough to rescue 1 casualty out. =) After lunch the small group went for another rehearsal while the rest of my Rota 2 mate went to help out Rota 1 with their RTA (Road Traffic Accident) practical.
When the people returned for the rehearsal, we were taught about the SOP of oil tank fire exercise and had a dry run before having our dinner. We continued with the wet run after our dinner. We were tired as we were having frequent late trainings nowadays. =x We had to 'samulah' once as the firefighting team did not use enough length of hoses to reach to the oil tank. Luckily I wasn't appointed for anything, so I merely sat at the training shed enjoying my role as a spectator. Lolx The fire was awfully beautiful with the dark night sky as the background. We thought we had enough, but we went to collect our CA (Chemical Agent) suit before going back our dorms cause we would be having our CA Endurance on the following morning. =(
Thursday morning came; fortunately we didn't have to do roll-call. We went through a short lesson about the CA suit and introduction of the method of wearing it. Then, we had to don the CA suit for our CA Endurance. The whole run was to do 50 sit-ups, run about 100m with your partner carrying a stretcher with 4 64mmx20m hoses, fireman lift your partner for about 100m while alternating between each checkpoints, slow jog for about 300m and run up 2nd level of the chemical plant and run down toward the starting point and lastly, we were sent to the CA room where we were asked to do 10 counts of 8 jumping jacks before taking off our mask; coerced to sniff in the CS gas. Was coughing and spitting profusely after I came out of that scary room. Lolx
We had our Term 2 Assessment Test after lunch. Although it was just a mere 25 MCQ, the questions set were rather tricky. It was so tricky that you would have overlooked a missing word in the possible answers and by choosing so would robbed you of 1 point. Anyhow, think I should be able to pass bah...
Miracle happens once in a blue moon...the people were called up for a last minute rehearsal as the director of CDA wanted to watch the flow of the ceremony. That means that we would be skipping SOC test! =x
Also, I had guard duty too. It was a bad start...shall not talk about it...It wasn't that easy to be a guard duty I/C. =(
Friday was worth to wait for as we went for the opening ceremony for the CD skills competition held at BRTC. Standing at attention for about 30 minutes was no joke. However, we were given proper lunch (YES! I meant that we weren't provided any proper lunch before in camp...) for our job well done! Lastly, we went for an IEDD (Improvised Explosive Device Disposal) lesson before booking out! =p
DSZeng scribbled this at 10:56 PM
