Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Wallaby was better than expected. I guess what's most unexpected about it is the learning experience that it provided us(or rather me). Most of the signallers will beg to differ on the point that 3 weeks in a dusty(it turned a green tank brown), hot(nearly 35 in the day), cold(10 on certain nights, with the occasional hailstorm) and remote(3 hour drive from the nearest town) place is worth the while. But well, how often will u see a Armored Battle Group fighting and closing on a target with support from both the air elements(F-16) and artillery(Primus)? Well, I guess Yossarian's quote from Catch-22 can thus be rephrased 'Its bad, but it could be a whole lot worse!'
This is a by-the-way note. Notice how many seem to complain that time seem to pass so slowly in army, while at the end of it they say that time flies? Or something to the effect of its boring while you are at it, but you will find it rewarding at the end? My hypothesis on this is because when u are serving you are really not doing anything of value for the brain to absorb and pick up. Wasting your life away in some remote bunk in some remote camp in some remote part of this remote island, you learn nothing of value and produce nothing of interest. Thus time past slowly. However, on looking back, there is no 'bookmark' so to speak. The brain thinks of these 2 years and all of it is a blur of nothing-ness, no need knowledge, little new skills. So there a theory for a day.
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