Into the jungle I go
It’s been an eventful last month. Last week I took part in my first Battalion Mission Exercise, where our company of 90+ had a simulated battle over 2 days against 600 troopers. As OPFOR (Opposition Force) we’re meant to test our ‘enemies’ and ensure they’re ready for a war that’ll probably never ever come because well we’re Singapore. You might be curious as to how a fake war would happen, but it’s actually quite simple. Laser-tag. It’s basically a glorified laser tag game that takes place in the jungle, but you still shoot blanks to simulate a real round being shot. It’s a little bit juiced up because you have different weapons, tanks driving around and artillery strikes being called in. But that’s pretty much the gist. Now for what everyone is wondering, how was it? I can only describe it with vocabulary so Jared-like, it was a fuck-fest. On day 1 of the mission, we were meant to delay their initial onslaught into vegetation for roughly 2 hours, but ended up delaying them for over 5