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All of you who are laughing at the National Servicemen cooling off with ice water during their field camp should be ashamed of yourselves. You have been through field camp and know how tough it is. They last at least 4 days and are usually physically very exhausting.

Just last week before my POP on the last night of our stay in Tekong, my buddy asked me to go to the toilet at 2am. He took an awfully Long piss so I was outside of the toilet looking out at the scenery. When he came out, I went to the water cooler right behind me and he looked at the view too. The next day, day of our 24km he fell really sick, high fever.

If you thought you’ve seen it all in your eventful 18-year life, wait till you join the army. The three months in BMT will expose you to all sorts of people you never thought existed.

A few OCS friends and I were on a night topography mission on Tekong Island. It was pitch dark that evening. Even the clouds colluded to block out the glow of the moon. Strange things happened that evening. Lugging our full packs and weapons, we were navigating our way to the next check point. Around us were palm trees - row after row of these trees. After a long trek, we thought that we actually arrived at the same spot where we first started.

After the incident, other recruits from the Charlie Company started to experience sightings of the dead recruit in the bunk. A medium was consulted after several complaints to the officers. The medium proposed the opening of a third door in the bunk to allow the trapped spirit to escape.