Came back from council camp yesterday. i hope that everybody will learn something from this camp and not just take this as a joke.
My reflections for this camp. Being the camp started, the planning was not on the track. Proposals were not done properly, which i don't blame the secondary3s because they were not taught how to do a proper one. The problems I face in this camp is that, i don't see unity in the planning team. I don't see people supporting each other but what I saw is : 'I want my way, so all of you listen to me', then the other party will be 'I don't want to listen you also cannot do anything'. I think this is the main problem of the camp. I told the secondary3s last night and i'm going to say it here, if the top breaks, the rest below it will follow suit. So, try your best to put up a good show and set good examples for the juniors to follow. As the OIC of this camp, I feel that I have not lead my team of people well. Being the OIC was not easy for me. I have my training and the council camp to balance. I can plan for somethings but I will not be able to be there to see how is it run, what is the mistakes etc... This comes down to commitment, I have to balance NCC and council together. Which in both, i can say to be holding quite high positions. For this camp, i dare not say that i contribute a lot and so I want to thank the people who helped me through the whole camp. Old boys who came back despite their hectic schedules, current executive committee, people who are having their major examinations this year, my team of planners and of cause, the teachers. I want to say a big thank you for helping me in anyway or another.
NCC training was not and have not been as fun as before. I don't understand why. What i see is that, there are too many old boys coming back. I don't have anything against them but they are taking over us too much. For some of you, you all may not feel it but me as a SSG, a platoon staff, I feel it. I want to try my best to help and I know the old boys too but don't you all think that you (old boys) are running too much of our (specialists) show. I want to do my own training planning, i want a say in my platoons upcoming positions, i want to bond and do my job as a platoon staff with my platoon but are you all giving me the chance. I still can get people telling me, : "If you cannot do your job, pass it to someone else to do." I'm very pissed off with this sentence, what do you want me to do if I do not have my chance to perform. If you all think that I am not up to the job and I cannot perform as how you all want me to then why in the first place you all give me this responsibility, this rank?? I'm really very sick and tired of training, yesterday, 6hours in the parade square, treated like dogs. Does SAF pay you all officers to come back and treat us like dogs?? SAF pay you all not to come back and treat us like dogs and anyway, you all are also not paid to come back here to train us. Yes, I don't mind you all helping because I know that our batch did not really do a very good job but seriously don't you all think that you all are too much?? People nowadays train with their brains and not with sheer strength and stupidity. If we think that the things we do are right, of cause we will follow and do it but if we think it is not and rebel, don't you all think that you all are at fault too?? Just because we rebel does not mean that we don't respect you all but it is because we are using our brains to think. I don't care how you all are treated last time and also how the army treats you all. Even RSM NCC himself said, : "If any of the SAF officers do anything not right to you all, please let them know that you all are from NCC and that you all are not the men under them." If even a WO tells us this, what right does the 2LT, LTA, 3rd SGT have to make us do things which aren't right under the rules of NCC. Last year, i had a talk with a senior and I told him that push ups are banned in NCC and I agree with him that if we follow, NCC will become like a playground but like what I have said above, nowadays, people work with their brains and not sheer strength and stupidity. We may not be as fit or as enthu as you all in the past but we are trying to follow the changes and not just stick to how the old ways work. It is stated in the Leaders' Creed, 'Rank is what you wear, respect is what you earn' but people are still blamed for getting 3rd SGT instead of 2nd SGT when they passout from specialists' course. Do you think this is fair for us?? If we have tried our best but the CLTs in HQ are not giving us points fairly, what can we do?? Our present CSM too passout with a 3rd SGT, does this mean he is lousy?? He still made it to be a CSM of the company so what is the problem with getting a 3rd SGT. I hope now you all know why i rather put my energy in Student Council rather than in NCC.
Wrote too much about NCC, but these are all what I feel and thought about. And one more thing, I am super burnt from yesterday's 6hours training. I will have much more to say next time so stay tune.
tired
burnt
My reflections for this camp. Being the camp started, the planning was not on the track. Proposals were not done properly, which i don't blame the secondary3s because they were not taught how to do a proper one. The problems I face in this camp is that, i don't see unity in the planning team. I don't see people supporting each other but what I saw is : 'I want my way, so all of you listen to me', then the other party will be 'I don't want to listen you also cannot do anything'. I think this is the main problem of the camp. I told the secondary3s last night and i'm going to say it here, if the top breaks, the rest below it will follow suit. So, try your best to put up a good show and set good examples for the juniors to follow. As the OIC of this camp, I feel that I have not lead my team of people well. Being the OIC was not easy for me. I have my training and the council camp to balance. I can plan for somethings but I will not be able to be there to see how is it run, what is the mistakes etc... This comes down to commitment, I have to balance NCC and council together. Which in both, i can say to be holding quite high positions. For this camp, i dare not say that i contribute a lot and so I want to thank the people who helped me through the whole camp. Old boys who came back despite their hectic schedules, current executive committee, people who are having their major examinations this year, my team of planners and of cause, the teachers. I want to say a big thank you for helping me in anyway or another.
NCC training was not and have not been as fun as before. I don't understand why. What i see is that, there are too many old boys coming back. I don't have anything against them but they are taking over us too much. For some of you, you all may not feel it but me as a SSG, a platoon staff, I feel it. I want to try my best to help and I know the old boys too but don't you all think that you (old boys) are running too much of our (specialists) show. I want to do my own training planning, i want a say in my platoons upcoming positions, i want to bond and do my job as a platoon staff with my platoon but are you all giving me the chance. I still can get people telling me, : "If you cannot do your job, pass it to someone else to do." I'm very pissed off with this sentence, what do you want me to do if I do not have my chance to perform. If you all think that I am not up to the job and I cannot perform as how you all want me to then why in the first place you all give me this responsibility, this rank?? I'm really very sick and tired of training, yesterday, 6hours in the parade square, treated like dogs. Does SAF pay you all officers to come back and treat us like dogs?? SAF pay you all not to come back and treat us like dogs and anyway, you all are also not paid to come back here to train us. Yes, I don't mind you all helping because I know that our batch did not really do a very good job but seriously don't you all think that you all are too much?? People nowadays train with their brains and not with sheer strength and stupidity. If we think that the things we do are right, of cause we will follow and do it but if we think it is not and rebel, don't you all think that you all are at fault too?? Just because we rebel does not mean that we don't respect you all but it is because we are using our brains to think. I don't care how you all are treated last time and also how the army treats you all. Even RSM NCC himself said, : "If any of the SAF officers do anything not right to you all, please let them know that you all are from NCC and that you all are not the men under them." If even a WO tells us this, what right does the 2LT, LTA, 3rd SGT have to make us do things which aren't right under the rules of NCC. Last year, i had a talk with a senior and I told him that push ups are banned in NCC and I agree with him that if we follow, NCC will become like a playground but like what I have said above, nowadays, people work with their brains and not sheer strength and stupidity. We may not be as fit or as enthu as you all in the past but we are trying to follow the changes and not just stick to how the old ways work. It is stated in the Leaders' Creed, 'Rank is what you wear, respect is what you earn' but people are still blamed for getting 3rd SGT instead of 2nd SGT when they passout from specialists' course. Do you think this is fair for us?? If we have tried our best but the CLTs in HQ are not giving us points fairly, what can we do?? Our present CSM too passout with a 3rd SGT, does this mean he is lousy?? He still made it to be a CSM of the company so what is the problem with getting a 3rd SGT. I hope now you all know why i rather put my energy in Student Council rather than in NCC.
Wrote too much about NCC, but these are all what I feel and thought about. And one more thing, I am super burnt from yesterday's 6hours training. I will have much more to say next time so stay tune.
tired
burnt
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