Unit ATC 2018

Our Unit’s Annual Training Camp 2018 was held from 20th to 21st October this year. The Unit had a fruitful and memorable camp, with activities such as campcraft pitching, games, a campfire and more.

Below are the Unit’s reflections of Unit ATC 2018.

Batch 51 – Instruction Manual


HOW TO SURVIVE UNIT ATC 101

This is an instruction manual on how to survive NYNPCC’s unit ATC. Presented to you by the secondary 2s of 2018, Batch 51. Disclaimer: We are not responsible for the fate of anyone who chooses to follow this instruction manual.

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General pointers

• Protect your rifle with your life
  • If it gets stolen, your throats go through hell (and never come back) yelling “Permission to retrieve rifle ma’am!”
    • Sit on your rifles if you have to, desperate times call for desperate measures
  • NEVER EVER drop your rifles
  • This applies to all items. Guard all items jealously and always keep everything within range of sight…and reach
• Lock your company door
  • Leave it open if you want to go on a diet and yell “permission to retrieve (something) ma’am!” to your heart’s content. However, do note you might end up starving and fainting which creates more trouble for ma’ams and yourselves. It will also result in a heap ton of punishments due to the number of rifles and rations lost
• Protect your company mates with your life
  • If one person is as blur as sotong and wanders off into ma’ams’ loving, kidnapping arms, your entire group gets the honour of yelling “Permission to retrieve (name of person) ma’am!”
  • Always move about in pairs
• Live your life to the fullest
  • Stay alert like you have had 10 cups of coffee even though you are running on 2 hours of sleep, or maybe even no sleep at all!
  • Be enthusiastic! Camps are meant to be torturous but enjoyable at the same time

Reporting procedures

• Ensure you know the procedures or you will just be very awkward
• If you screw up, try not to die of embarrassment in front of everybody #trysandfails #learnfrommistakes

Flag Pitching

• 把 all pitching procedures 背在心里, whether or not it’s your assigned role
• Put in your 100% effort
  • Do not disappoint ma’ams or yourselves
  • Start off your camp on a good note

老鹰捉小鸡

• Try not to fall down on your head or do a nosedive
  • Seriously speaking, safety is everyone’s number 1 priority, competing with the floor to find out if your head is harder usually does not end well
• Have quick reflexes and do not be clumsy
• Do not let your group be cornered by ma’ams
  • Or it will result in the deaths of your 小鸡们 and as the 母鸡 you do not want that to happen to your kids, do you?

Chicken feet

• Recognise the voices of your squadmates and juniors
  • You will need to be able to differentiate between the voices of ma’ams and squadmates and groupmates
• Know your squadmates well
  • E.g. during the latest chicken feet game, ma’am said Jolene/Jasmine’s full name wrongly and that’s how we knew she wasn’t Jolene/Jasmine #EXPOSED
• Stay alert
  • Be wary of buckets and other unusual noises (like very badly done mimicking of somebody’s voice)
• Do not be afraid to yell the password to find each other! Or else you will never be found and the mission will not be accomplished
• Do not struggle with ma’ams when they are trying to break you apart from your squadmates/groupmates, just let go of their hand when you realise they are sneakily pretending to be part of the group
• Do not pull on ma’ams’ shirts, that would be “outrage of modesty”! #basiclawrules
• If ma’ams dunk water on you, either be honoured or sad; honoured because it means they love you, sad because they are taking revenge for something wrong you have said. E.g. Alina getting splashed several times because it was her birthday, and VS Chloe mistaking Nicole ma’am to be our squad’s head NCO when it is actually Emma ma’am

Campfire prep

• Let your creative juices flow
• Try not to be awkward
  • If you are a junior, talk to the ma’ams in your company, contrary to seemingly popular belief, they do not bite
  • If you are a ma’am, talk to the juniors in your company, it may be awkward, but bonding usually starts off that way
• Throw out ideas, or else the preparation cannot progress
• Even if it is funny or highly embarrassing, JUST DO IT #Nike

Campfire

• HAVE FUN
• BE ENTHUSIASTIC
• Do your best
• Show off your supreme dance moves!
  • Even if you have got two left feet, there is no harm in doing a lopsided jig to make everyone laugh
• Improvise
  • Even if your dance partner is missing because she ended up on the wrong side of the dance floor, do an impromptu solo!
• Shout during the cheers!
  • To shout ‘em, you got to know ‘em, so you better memorise them and not yell out a string of rubbish

Night trail

• Watch some horror movies/ scary video clips to prepare for the worst
• Expect the unexpected (Eg: multiple masterminds, instead of just 1 or 2)
• Expect jump scares
• Do not 自己吓自己
• Work together to solve the mystery

PT

• Enjoy it, it is good exercise for your (non-existent) muscles
  • Train your flabs to flabs
• Resilience is key
  • When doing planks, no matter how tempting it is to sprawl on the floor after 10 seconds, you have to woman up and carry on for another 50 seconds

CDC

• 把 first aid skills 练得滚瓜烂熟
  • There is no smoking your way through this
• Delegate tasks
  • Some should stay back in the medical room and wait for the drama while the others run around like headless chickens looking for the drama
• Be organised
  • Split your first aid room into different sections for different injuries
  • Clear spaces for sitting down or lying down
• 10,000,000/10 persuasion skills required
  • Be prepared for Oscar-worthy acting by ma’ams
• Be super patient until ma’ams get scared of how patient you are
  • NEVER EVER roll your eyes or throw your temper sky high even if you cannot tahan and want to 爆炸 from frustration, because doing so warrants even better acting from ma’ams
  • Smile and be nice
• If you need to carry ma’ams, make sure you smell nice and do not stink of sweat or ma’am might just faint, for real
• Channel your inner athlete and diplomat. You will need both to survive

Punishments and Dismissal

• Come up with something creative for punishments, or you could always stick with your best friend PT
• At the end of the two days, do not forget to thank ma’ams for all their hard work and effort in organising the camp. It may have been tough for you, but think about ma’ams having to plan everything and put it into action, all while worrying about your safety and ensuring you have a fun time. Be grateful for the experience and appreciate ma’ams’ work

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This is the end of the instruction manual, enjoy camp, do your best and don’t die!

Love,
Spectacular Batch 51

Batch 52 – Poem

ATC was last weekend,

We had so much fun.

We didn’t want it to end,

Holding our beloved guns,
Woken up at 5:30AM,

On a serenely peaceful weekend,

BAM BAM BAM!

Went our footsteps as we ran.
Where is my sleep?

Our lives are incomplete.

Doing PT at 7AM in the morning,

Ping Pong Ping Pong Ping!

Huffing and puffing non-stop,

Trying not to let our standards drop.

It was really tiring,

But it’s our best that we will bring.

We went through so much,

From campcraft to campfire to lunch

With our individual companies,

Alpha Bravo Delta and Charlie.

Standing side by side,

By ma’ams’ orders we abide.

Our bootlaces we quickly lace,

Or its ma’ams’ wrath that we will face.

ATC was so tiring,

But next year’s we are anticipating.

Now that it’s over,

We ask, “Why couldn’t it have passed slower?”