My defining moment in BMT.

To some people, the defining moment they might have could be the 4 days of gruelling torment in field camp and 2 days of Urban Operation training, or the day they had to be woken up in the middle of the night and road march few kilometres before they are entrusted with their SAR21, or even the moment they got your head shaved on the first day of their enlistment. However to me, I felt that the most defining moment I had would be the entire week I had spends through together with my platoon and my commander in Pulau Tekong.

For me, I am in the BP batch, which means that I will have to spend 19 weeks for my BMT phrase. Personally before entering the BMT, I do not even know if I am able to endure through the whole BMT. However looking back the past weeks I had gone through, I have notice I not only being able to endure through all trainings, but also found myself much stronger (physically and mentally) for more challenges up ahead.

For the past few weeks in the BMT, it had been turmoil of emotions for me as I experience many highs and lows that I discovered of myself more, both the Good side and the Bad/Ugly side of me. Having to go through all the hardship together with my fellow section-mate, it makes me realise the importance of teamwork, the support you need to one another. Without all these support from my fellow section-mate and commander, I doubt the training I have been though will be much easy. If I need to quote an example, I would choose to use the experience I had during the outfield training.

To many of us, outfield training is never easy, especially the fire movement test, digging of shell scrape and the other training we had gone through. Without the support and help given to me from my section-mate and commander, I doubt I have the strength (mentally) to complete my shell scrape, as well as the conviction my section-mate had given me to lead them in the fire movement test. This leads me back to our company motto, “Believe, Achieve as One”. When we believe we can do it, and the mindset of leaving no man behind, we can all complete as one together. Only then we will be able to achieve something big and not failure. And even if we fail, we don’t feel bad about it as we have all done our very best.

Therefore in conclusion, I believe the defining moment I had in BMT would be the entire week I had gone through together with my platoon and my commander. It is because of them, it will help me to finish my BMT and embark on a whole new journey in my posting in future. Without the support and strength given to me from them, I believe I have already given up half-way through my training.