Why Gurkhas are the best in the World (a true story)

A true life experience after seeing Gurkhas in exercise!

Gurkhas are world famous soldiers as being fierce and fearless warriors, displaying their legendary fighting knives the famous khukuri. Downloaded image constitutes Fair Use under Section 107 under Copyright Act commented for educational purpose and news reporting. Picture credit by Indiatimes.com

An Early Rise to go for Training Camp on Pulau Tekong

This story was told to me by my best friend who did his army training on Pulau Tekong (pulau is the Malay word for “island”). He spend a 4 days training camp on Pulau Tekong.

He had to wake up at 2pm to draw logistics stores to build a defense camp (e.g. barbed wires, special gloves for handling barbed wires, ramp-posts, changkols, spades, GPMGs, recoilless rifles, etc) on the island. They also had to draw M16 personal arms from Armskote (an armory where firearms are kept), clean up their personal rifles, etc. After drawing stores, field-packs and personal arms, and loading them up onto 3 tonner trucks, he and his army colleagues had to go for breakfast.

Mercedes-Benz 911 3 Ton Truck used by the army in those days, for transporting stores and troops. Download of image constitutes Fair Use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act commented for educational purpose. Picture credit by flickr.com

By 4.30am they boarded 3 tonner trucks to go to the ferry point at Changi Point to board a LCT (Landing Craft Tank) ship to go to ‘Tekong’ island, 45 mins away.