Confinement week in army
Many young adults out there who are still enjoying their youths are definitely not looking forward to their enlistment date. Yes, army is a waste of time, like what many of my friends said. Even my buddy tells me the same thing. But I’ve always thought to myself it’s a give and take scenario. National service makes boys become men. Trains every individual to be independent and bring up their leadership qualities. But in this post, I just wanna share my experience in BMT during my first 2 weeks of the confinement where all enlistees are not allowed to book out for 2 weeks.
So yeah I remembered the few days before my enlistment I was definitely spending much time with my close friends; like as if your days are going to end. You’ll realize that time is actually kinda short especially in the weekends. Oh and yes, I spend my night before enlistment packing all the stuffs I needed like the list which I’ve compiled before this post. Of course when I went in I knew that I could have brought more toiletries since you’ll spend 2 weeks in camp.
The first 2 weeks in BMT is also known as adjustment week, where all recruits are treated with care and age sergeants will definitely try to help you adapt to army life, to many, especially myself, army would mean waking up early. Yes indeed everyday you’ll have to wake up, wash-up and be prepared by 0500. Don’t worry about the sergeants waking you up in the middle if the night because that will never happen, in SAF law every soldier MUST have 7 hours of interrupted rest before their days activities so if thats one if the worries you could be rest assured 
Besides the sleep hours and all, if you are not the obese batch you will definitely have night snacks during your confinement week for like 4 days, stuffs like hot Milo and cream marble cakes are available. Also, after your confinement week, depending on your Commanders, you might be able to bring in dry food such as energy bars, biscuits, milo, however, i wish to repeat that snacks such as pringles, potato chips and maggie mees are prohibited cuz they are unhealthy!
Also, i wanna wish all recruits the best in their army life as i can assure you, life is not what you think as difficult as it is back then in the army, theres lots of welfare for the soldiers these days so just remember to enlist with an open mind and dont expect to meet your old friends there; but rather be able to meet new people.
