ATEC’s over at last! I was dreading it all along but wow I can truly say that I enjoyed every minute of it with my fellow scouts!
For those not in the know, ATEC is the assessment that every unit has to undergo during their NS active time as well as during their 6th and 7th year reservist. It’s a test of how ready everyone is to fight. If the unit does well, the rest of their reservist is smooth sailing, else too bad!!!!
Anyway so we had to perform two attack and two defense missions. As scouts, our duty is to avoid enemy contact and spy on their fortifications. We don’t do any actual fighting, yup we run away from everything.
This ATEC, we bucked the trend!!!! Here’s a brief synopsis of our most daring exploits (no pics so i use lego):
1. During the first mission, in a simulated helicopter landing, teams Delta and Alpha were airlifted into the jungle. Unfortunately, their Helicopter was immediately attacked by a marauding GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) mounted Jeep! They quickly teamed up and attacked the jeep, killing all on board. We made history taking down a jeep with just the SAR21s!
First kill to the scouts!
2. My team Foxtrot was en-route to our battle surveillance position when we realized that our intelligence side gave us a very bad location, we had to go right through the entire enemy base to reach the location. We sneaked pass two encampments, and were almost clear of the last one when one of their eagle-eyed troops blasted us with their MG! My team scattered but were shot down on the road. I was the only one who escaped by bashing into the vegetation. I used all the tricks I knew to evade capture that night. And throughout the night I continued to study the enemy forces and sent reports to my commander. Heeee will give the rest of the story of how I eventually escaped in another entry!
3. In the second mission, my team was set upon by a GPMG outpost and instead of escaping, we regrouped with teams Alpha and Delta (behind us) and attacked the outpost, clearing it with only one scout killed and two injured.
But before we could recover, two jeeps heard the commotion and rushed down attacking us. We took cover and fought back. With the timely assistance of team Charlie, our platoon minus fought the jeeps and pushed them back. Yup we never backed down and the jeeps retreated after an hour’s fight!
We were running low on time and we dispatched two scouts (the damn zai Zhaoyang) to recce the enemy objective while the rest secured a Form Up Place for the entire battalion. I was supposed to be one of the two scouts cos I gained a reputation as the "Uncatchable Scout" then but as I lost my specs the night before, someone else went in my stead. We learnt that the jeeps had hidden around a bend way up front and we formed a scout assault force to take them down. 5 of us - Alwyin, Victor Wong, Elvin, Junyong and me scouted ahead and we noticed the gunner was in the front seat, so we quickly charged them and killed the jeep before they could retaliate.
4. In the last mission, Team Charlie was attacked by a tank and the whole team was shot down. Save one – Nic. Nic survived the tank shot to continue his battle surveillance. Yup, Nic is now dubbed as the Unkillable Scout, even tanks cannot shoot him down!
Yup, every one of us from the 682 scout platoon is now famous in ATEC history for our exploits! Our battalion made H-hour safely because we cleared the entire way up to the objective! I overheard the ATEC commander debriefing our umpires that they can learn a lot from our platoon. He was saying that this team of scouts were highly exceptional and very motivated, to the extent that we defied SAF doctrine to remove all obstacles in front of the battalion. Hahahah he did say later that in future, we must stick to SAF doctrine and not be such mavericks but for now, he is extremely pleased with our performance. I got a personal commendation from the commander as well for being a one-man team!
High siah! It’s definitely my privilege to fight amongst my best pals this ATEC!
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