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By: dexter mania
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| Sunday, 13-Aug-2006 12:00 |
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Start of School.
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finally. sch has started.. FINALLY! hahaha.. got so sick of going back to navy for the hols man. it's like. so much things to do. so little time. means slp is forsaken. argh. the only good thing is i managed to visit the gym more often.  oh wait. there was another good thing. i got my COC! haha!! finally. jem was saying thats it's long overdue man. haha. he thinks i shld have gotten it waaay earlier.
i digress: for all u non-navy pple, COC is certificate of competency. it basically certifies that i am now competent in my decision making and ship knowledge to take charge of duties. prior to getting this cert, every duty i also muz understudy and try to get competent.
yeah. even during the assessment, i thot the fire drill part was ok. i was quite confident. but the table top theory assessment was quite shit man. i mean i felt i totally screwed it up!  but guess the x-man (  Maj Xavier lahz. lolx) thot i was still good enough.
pity though that i only got it at the last moment. coz i couldnt be in charge of more duties! haha.. can u believe it? juz b4 getting, i was totally sick n tired of doing duties. but once i got it, i couldnt get enough of doing! haha. well. my weekend understudy duty used to be like this:
0800H: report for duty. settle any duty problems like logistic or manpower issues. u nv knw when someone would decide not to turn up n off his phone! lolx.
0830H: take over duty watch from the previous day's duty and brief the guys on your expectations and relevant information needed for the duty. usually is the duty officer do all these lah. but as understudy, we're training to be duty officers so we do wan lor.
from then on, it's either time spent to get to knw the ship, or for the appointment holders to question and test us and sign the taskbook. and of course lunch! 
usually about 1600H: then it'll be time for firedrill. this has 2 aims, to practise the guys to make sure theyre ready to handle anything shld it happen. it is also for us understudy-ers to practise our decision making and command and control of the situation ah.
then it's usually dinner and then 2000H rounds, where we go for our inspection of the ships in harbour. followed by a movie session ususally, and pass midnight, there's another rounds.
so once i got my COC, i contributed back to the ship by doing one duty, so an appointment holder didnt have to do! my day then was like this:
0830H: report for duty. observe my friends giving the brief coz they were still understudying. (i have more experience than them lah. thats y i got assessed first. plus i was going back for studies lah. )
after that, i went into a room a took a nap! i woke up for lunch, then went back to sleep! hahaha!!!
i woke up again when it was time for the firedrill, and for the first time, i went to conduct firedrill! instead of learning how to handle a fire, i went to learn how to simulate and conduct one! hahaha!!! cool man!
yeah. so that's basicallly the difference with being a COC holder and COC-less ah.
and school's starting. i can chuck all the navy stuff back in the storeroom already.
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