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Personal Narrative: Defining Moments In BMT

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Yuen Sze Dao L4406 DEFINING MOMENTS IN BMT When I first enlisted into BMT, I felt that the next 17 weeks would be boring and dreadful. But having experienced BMT for the Past 15 weeks have proved me otherwise. This is due to the fun and joy that my platoon mates and commanders bring to make my experience in BMT a memorable and fruitful one. BMT has allowed me to widen my social network and get to know more about others, their different background and cultures. One of the defining moments of BMT was being platoon IC, which helped to boost my level of confidence and be more outspoken than before. It also helped me to understand how essential communication and passing down of messages are, in a platoon. The Basic Trainfire Package was another defining moment of BMT as it was quite interesting to be given the opportunity to fire live rounds for the 2nd time with the 1st when I was a NCC Cadet. Being able to shoot down all the figure 15 targets to me was an achievement and yet again, we had a lot time to talk and …show more content…

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