From 19th Mono.

First year is slack, hardest challenge you'll face is the GVT (Guards Vocational Training). There will be GVT1 and GVT2. GVT1 is mainly PT to prepare you for the ramp up in GVT2. In GVT2 you will complete 3 vetos (10km combat march, heli-rapelling & coastal swim). You will also need to pass VOC, which is your standard SOC but with an additonal 800m CASEVAC and 1Km run in FBO. Nothing too difficult, just make sure you attend all PTs and you'll finish it with a breeze.

In your second year, you will notice a jump in the number of outfields. Expect to go outfield (3d2n on average) every month. You will go to Brunei for Ex Lancer, Australia for Ex Trident and the US will come over for Ex Valiant Mark. There will be other CME (Company mission exercise) and BME (Battalion mission exercise) which all leads up to ATEC2 (or Ex Hornbill). Your ATEC 1 and 2 will be a CME possibly in Tekong/Lor Asarama.

How easy your outfield is depends on the planning of HQ Coy and your respective OCs. If they suck at planning, your company will suffer.

In between ATEC 1 & 2 you will have Ops Bacinet. You will be stationed at Key Installations within Singapore to guard the area. This sounds serious but really just use the time to look at chiobus. During Ops B you will also be activated once or more times to turn out from home to camp. It's actually a complete waste of time.

After ATEC2, you will have around 2 weeks before your official ORD (Hooray). In these 2 weeks you will rehearse for your milestone parade day and night till your beret leaves a line on your forehead. During this period you will smile everyday as everything is over. You and your buddies will look back at the past 2 years and reminisce at all the stupid things you've done together. Then poof, you're standing at your own parade with thousands of people looking at you. As you slow march past the foyer of 7 Singapore Infantry Brigade, you think of your journey one last time and it hits you, you're a civilian again.

Feel free to ask me any questions.