My Last ICT

I had spent my whole March holidays attending my In-Camp Training. The special part about this particular ICT is that this our unit's last. After more than 13 years together, it is time to say our goodbyes.

Mixed feelings arose at the parting, relieved at one end that after so many years, our national service training cycle had finally been completed, but sad that we will be missing all the people who we had gone through all the thick and thin with. We have been a very cohesive unit all these years, won the Best Combat Unit in our active days and subsequently winning 6 Best Reservist Unit in the years after, a record unparalled in the SAF. On Saturday night, grown up men in their thirties started hugging each other as we bade farewell after our stand-down ceremony, it was a touching moment.

I am privileged to have witnessed the very best in action, exemplary men from all walks of life who had gone the extra mile to get things done under outstanding leadership. What I have left from this experience is the friendship which I had developed over the years and the good memories of the people who had shared this path together.

This has been a memorable chapter.