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Leave none behind, unless they choose to,,,is only BASIC HUMANITY & CIVILIZATON growth & progress...
This may be a long post, thus none needs to read it.
Do allow me to share an indelible experience forever etched into my mind during my formative years...
1.During National Service military training, the insignificant nobody me was appointed as the commander of a platoon during a military exercise that lasted for 7 days in the field. I was the fall guy for anything wrong that would happen, as is my training responsibility.
2.When the military exercise was cut, everyone was glad & all wanted to just go back to base, clean up & meet up with loved ones.
3. But still, military procedures would have to be adhered to, such as accounting for men, equipment, weapons, etc.
4. To my dismay, when the teams reported their strengths, I realized there were 2 men missing. I reported to the training officer, but was dismissed as an accounting error my figures, as there were those whom were on MCs, leaves, compassionate leaves, etc.
5. My FAILURE was that I did not insist on recounts & further details. We all went happily back to our military base, cleaned up, return arms & were ready to book out. However, to our horror, there were 2 missing firearms that had not been returned. The Training officer than ordered everyone to fall in & a proper headcount, along with the clerk to verify every personnel, & realized that there were 2 active soldiers still in the field.
6. We were immediately ordered to put on our uniforms, armed with ponchos & torchlights, placed upon trucks & zoomed back to the training area, the tactical field base that was our last location.
7. We searched in the dark & heavy rain, & with joys & some with tears, found our 2 fully DEDICATED Full Time NSmen in their sentry positions, whom despite being hungry & with mosquitoes & insects crawling all over their bodies in the rain, they still CHALLENGED us for passwords when they heard our approach....
8. They were glad to be picked up finally, but someone had to pay the price - me, given 3 weeks confinement in camp which I gladly served it out, as it WAS my mistake to NOT question my superiors over evident errors. I was not sure if it was a training plan or something that was unplanned, but in the end, it did not harm my confidential report for further leadership assignments...& NEVER forgotten once I left the military after my service served fully, & brought such a doctrine even into my daily life in other fields of endeavors I worked in...
9. I had the privilege & honor to train with other International military forces worldwide, but in the end, it was the American military that ONLY adopts such a line, to leave none behind.....
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This may be a long post, thus none needs to read it.
Do allow me to share an indelible experience forever etched into my mind during my formative years...
1.During National Service military training, the insignificant nobody me was appointed as the commander of a platoon during a military exercise that lasted for 7 days in the field. I was the fall guy for anything wrong that would happen, as is my training responsibility.
2.When the military exercise was cut, everyone was glad & all wanted to just go back to base, clean up & meet up with loved ones.
3. But still, military procedures would have to be adhered to, such as accounting for men, equipment, weapons, etc.
4. To my dismay, when the teams reported their strengths, I realized there were 2 men missing. I reported to the training officer, but was dismissed as an accounting error my figures, as there were those whom were on MCs, leaves, compassionate leaves, etc.
5. My FAILURE was that I did not insist on recounts & further details. We all went happily back to our military base, cleaned up, return arms & were ready to book out. However, to our horror, there were 2 missing firearms that had not been returned. The Training officer than ordered everyone to fall in & a proper headcount, along with the clerk to verify every personnel, & realized that there were 2 active soldiers still in the field.
6. We were immediately ordered to put on our uniforms, armed with ponchos & torchlights, placed upon trucks & zoomed back to the training area, the tactical field base that was our last location.
7. We searched in the dark & heavy rain, & with joys & some with tears, found our 2 fully DEDICATED Full Time NSmen in their sentry positions, whom despite being hungry & with mosquitoes & insects crawling all over their bodies in the rain, they still CHALLENGED us for passwords when they heard our approach....
8. They were glad to be picked up finally, but someone had to pay the price - me, given 3 weeks confinement in camp which I gladly served it out, as it WAS my mistake to NOT question my superiors over evident errors. I was not sure if it was a training plan or something that was unplanned, but in the end, it did not harm my confidential report for further leadership assignments...& NEVER forgotten once I left the military after my service served fully, & brought such a doctrine even into my daily life in other fields of endeavors I worked in...
9. I had the privilege & honor to train with other International military forces worldwide, but in the end, it was the American military that ONLY adopts such a line, to leave none behind.....
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