Live Shooting

Today is the expected live shooting exercise. It took place in some remote part of Tekong. Since the place was too remote.

A 5 tonner military lorry, capable of transporting abt 30 men and equipment, picked us at the transport station. The journey was short, but the roads were bumpy.

Soon the lorry came to a halt. We were amazed at wad he saw. Nth but several target practice. Everyone went for weapon zeroing, which is to offset the rifle's aim to one's eye. Due to the lack of space to carry out the live fire, platoon 3 and 4 were sent back to their camp and their shooting exercise will commence the following day.

As for M2, we took lunch at 12. After lunch, we entered the unfamiliar outdoor firing chamber and shot (I meant frm the rifle, b4 u think of smth else). The targets were all same as the IMT simulator, but the difference is the real fire recoil is damn, DAMN loud and explosive..

Since it was a hands on exercise, lots of rifle jammed repeatedly and lots of reshooting were put in place. Lots of targets were spoiled. For instance, the target nv seemed to respond when Stanley hit the target, which affected his overall grade. In addition, there were times where the magazine went faulty, tt is bullets wont feed into rifle.

The whole shooting practice lasted until 1230 am. It was a gruesome day for M2, but everyone managed to pass the overall test. Surprisingly, for some who failed his morning shooting, the nite shooting saved some of his ass and it brought his result to a pass grade. Of cos, the advantage of nite shooting is one can aim and fire at own time own target and at nearer distance frm the target.