Kongkoil River Crossing, Floating Techniques

 ~ Beautiful view from Kongkoil Camp ~

After Kongkoil Aksasais Compass Marching, we continue our training with River Crossing and Floating Techniques. Kongkoil Camp has a lake, dirty tea-color-lake, haha. Before we start training, our staffs put few explosive boms to scare the fishes underwater, so that fishes in the water faint for a while during our training. Here comes to play in the water playground which I most scare for. I’m scared because I don’t know what’s underwater, hope fishes won’t bite me. We training together with junior. 

~ Around 100m of distance ~

~ One of my squad ~

~ It’s my turn ~

Well, about river crossing, actually very easy. Why I say easy? Because it was really easy!!! Haha. As got a rope link between two banks, and we were wearing lifejacket and it was buckle up with the rope, won’t drown anyway. We just had to pull the water by grabbing the water to reach another bank of the lake. It was just like playing with water, but the water very dirty!!! Before we start, we have to sink into the water once to “warm up” our body and adapt with the water. Then report to officer: “Saya Pegawai Kadet Wanita XXX, siap untuk menyeberangi kolam”. Then just slide to another bank of lake, very fun. This is one of the important training in military, as to train military personnel to cross river in an emergency case. Like what you see in movie, military personnel help victims to survive. You don’t think we do this just for fun ok, that is none of the activity we do it without any objective.

~ Everybody lined up for their turn ~

~ Pillow ~

After done for River Crossing, another section called “Perapungan” aka floating. How they do the “floating pillow” actually, what is the ingredients inside? They do the “floating pillow” with poncho, ingredient is GRASSES. They wrap a lot a lot of grasses inside, then use branch to stable it and tie up the whole pillow neatly and tightly. The “pillow very heavy, have to carry 2 persons. Thissection challenge cooperation between 2 persons. One person holds in front while another person hold behind and swim to another side. In my case, I can’t swim and my partner also can’t swim, we cannot move at all. HAHA. Then the staff helped to pull us. 

~ Staff pulled us ~

~ My partner for floating ~

Really was a great experience to try all this military training. Sometimes feel sad cannot enjoy much holiday and freedom, sacrifice our time, when we look back, we did something great in our young life. Yeah, everthing worth it. All this experience not included in our text book, cannot buy it anyhow. So, just enjoy the training with our squads.

~ My hands when finish training, so geli ~

~ After training ~

~ Report finish training ~

~ Prepare pre mess night for senior ~

I still remember the week after came back from training, my whole body full with red dots because of too hot. Until I went home and get some air-conditioner air, just turned better.

More posts about military:

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Annual Camp 2012 >>> ClickHere

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Written On 21 November 2013