Dumping 300 something, 18 years olds on a hill for 3 months straight means rules broken, hormones flying around and misdeeds. So punishments are set to restore the order. Whether they serve their purpose or not, it's another topic for another time.
People broke the rule as early as the dawn cracks and even before they wake up. Day starts at 5 am in my camp and every Muslim trainee is to be at the surau for Subuh. You can find those who don't under their blanket, on their bed together with the mosquito net still attached, on the tarmac between surau and accommodation blocks. The trainers went extra miles to drag anyone who's still sleeping together with their bed out. As the time passed, the method turned out futile. So Plan B is to dip those wrongdoers in the pond. Must have been really cold. Usually they are let to stay there, life jacket on, supervisor on the side until the first company go downhill for breakfast. That usually is at 7-715 am. I saw them with my own eyes from the drilling hill, heads bobbing, down there in the pond.
I got punished as well. One is for leaving out ONE freaking piece of t-shirt more than a day on the clothes line. Had to do PT10 5 times. PT10 is starjump, for those who don't know. One evening, my friends and I were late for games roll call by 1 minute and this one particular female trainer from Bravo made a big deal about it (I have always dislike her, for reasons). As we were preparing to run down the hill for the punishment that calls for running up and down the hill no less than 3 cycles, a group of girls from Bravo emerged from the girls accom. gate. They were late by 7 minutes and we were saved.
You know this thing about certain girl skipping the prayer under the pretense that their Nippon flag is up. If you know, you should also know that they are not smart people. If you are smart, there should be no suspicion, and the others wouldn't have to bear insulting treatment as well. Anyway, we didn't get maltreated because of these dumb people. We are close to but we escaped with all the Muslim girls starjumping together in their telekung under the clear starry nightsky. Nowhere would you see such thing except for in PLKN.
Every company has their own flag, cheers and second name. Only the former is physical, thus we have to really take care of it. Means to say it has to always be with somebody, even during holiday. All 4 companies were so excited on our first holiday that we totally forgot the flag. For my company, it was the boys' turn to take care of the flag. They put it at. the. corner.of.the.dorm. Basically, they put it where they live in camp. You would think that under the roof and within the walls that you live in is the safest place to put the flag. Not the case in PLKN though. We returned to see all four flags waving side by side at the top of the tallest peak in our camp, the helipad hill.
Talking about helipad, boys who were caught with cigarette have to run from the office up to the helipad and return down. With a catch of course. They have to do it with 2 cigarettes sticking out from their nostrils.
In my camp, even wearing the cap with the front in other direction calls for punishment. My girls and I were instructed to walk in the direction where the front sticking out. Some walked reversedly, some obliquely. To make it more meaningful, we were caught and punished in the middle of mess hall.
I guess I was OK during camp. Explains why I am running out of the idea of which other punishment were done in camp. I know the boys, all of them got into big trouble after some boys stole a box of tangerine from the vice commandant's Mercz. It was afternoon, right after we returned from our Ekspedisi Wira Jaya. They might have been asked to do knuckle body pumping on the hot tarmac, maybe less, maybe more. And my company did the knuckle body pumping thing at 3 pm, on the sizzling hot tarmac for fun practise, so I know how 'nice' it is.
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