THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
Some of my NS stories from my unit days. Context: after BMT I was assigned a combat medic vocation and posted out to the old School of Military Medicine, Ulu Pandan Camp. Was there for a couple of months before we moved to Nee Soon Camp. Currently the place has been converted to the new …
1. Was in Tekong BMTC School 2, Leopard Company back in the early 2000s. I’ve heard numerous army ghost stories from seniors prior to enlisting, so needless to say I was a bit nervous about potentially encountering such things when I enlisted. 2 weeks into BMT, I was trying to get some sleep after a …
The top floor(level 6) of my bunk building is usually empty unless there are overseas troops coming in to stay. One night, we feel damn boring, so the lot of us drivers, around 10+ of us decided to go level 6 to play hide and seek since no one is up there during that period …
My BMT was in Tekong at Camp 1 during the Mid-90s. And I was posted to the infamous Charlie Coy PL10. Didn’t experience anything remarkable there in my recruits days, only saw a family of wild boars during one of me guard duty prowling rounds on the way to the infamous SOC grounds. The 3-door …
I’ve been pretty lucky not to see anything “special” during my NS time, but I did experience one spooky encounter, which I will share. Somewhere in this thread someone mentioned about lift landing which made me recall my experience. After OCS I was posted to an airbase, and one of my duties was to carry …
During my Ns, I was posted to Sispec. After BSLC(basic course), I was posted to ASLC(advanced course) with another company in SISPEC in early 2000s. Luckily the warrant officers and sergeant were more forgiving than in BSLC and while we still had tekan sessions, the frequency was lesser as we were really more into the …
During my NS, we were having an exercise which was a 3D2N (or 4D3N I can’t really remember) navigation exercise over a training area in Taiwan that is bigger than Singapore. Similarly, each section was divided into 2 details (bed 1 to 5 in one detail, bed 6 to 10 in another detail). This navigation …
Last year, a branch of a family-friendly place popular with NS men and soldiers was undergoing a renovation. But a portion of it was still opened to the public. There was one night, roughly after 9pm, I needed to use the washroom. Me and friend drove in from the carpark, and my friend waited in …
I want to share with readers an incident that happened during my NS in Lim Chu Kang Cemetery, battalion exercise and my company was going thru the cemetery and it was a full moon night. We halted for a rest and some of my company mates was resting everywhere along the road in the cemetery, …
I have been living in this flat at 504B Montreal Drive since 2001, and currently things are going well. But I remember from the earlier stages, the many disturbance we got from the tenants who have been here much longer than us. We live on the third floor, and my bedroom is on one end …