Phases

Details

Recruitment

• Who wants to be a soldier? Some brave people
• Statutory obligations, national security & defense
• An occupation, job
• Learning, challenging, team-working experience

Training

• Physical: bodily strength, endurance, rugged, stamina
• Emotional: adapting, facing, challenging, grouping
• Military: strategic, tactical manoeuvres, defense positions, attack formations, jungle survival, security
• Tools: weapons - personal, group; logistic, operational, movement, attack, detection, monitoring, integrated - short, medium and long range varying in rates & power

Jungle survival

• Water: capture evaporated water from valleys, clues of death around water, in plants, rain, minimise water loss
• Food: fruits, berries, plants, roots (tapioca), animals (frogs, pythons, rats, birds, etc.: cleaned & cooked thoroughly), edibility test, setting traps for animals & enemies
• Fire: flammable materials, by friction, protect fire, reduce smoke & detection, dispose off ashes properly
• Shelter: away from rain / heat / cold / wetlands / riverbeds / lightning / secured positions, anchored wooden members for vertical & lateral stability / support, leaves for cover, twigs / roots for tying joints, compacted ground for leaves as mats, drains if wet
• Toilet: away from shelter, hole dug deep, used for days
• If enemy territory: tunnels dug in stable ground, camouflage, traps, sensors (trip wires), camp disposal thorough, radio silence, food rationing, night vigil

Physical

• Conditioning: warm-up by entire group, head-toe, top-down, rotations, translations, jumping, stretching, pumping, shutter-running, long-jogging, most importantly shouting / releasing / bursting out exhausts
• Strength: weights like balls, logs, sand bags, barung barung, weapons and tools, gym, combat rescue like fireman's life, stretcher and evacuation
• Endurance: long-jogging, obstacle courses with soaked clothing & equipment, running within limits, knuckle push-ups, elongated sentry, stances, mostly importantly calmness amidst heat & frustration, teamwork amidst diversity, vigilance amidst difficulties & adversities
• The Aboriginals are known to be able to survive a whole day in the desert (50 degrees Centigrade) and a whole night (10 degrees Centigrade) naked & without feeling cold
• But they suffer from self-induced apathy with ultimate respect with the spirits

Desert survival

• Water: find rocky outcrops, shadows, vegetation
• Oil-filmed pond: use hollow reed to suck water below the surface oil
• Fish in rocky waters: dump boulders into the water to stun the fish & grab them
• Fish in muddy waters: scour the muddy floor & force the fish to surface & grab them
• Fire: make clearing, choose hard or rocky surface, collect flammable materials (wood: old, dry, brittle and sapless, baked under the sun), pick natural firelighter (resin, saps: grind into powder form) à make a grove at the stem of a dry stick, surround it with powder resin and wood fragments à point one end of another stick into the groove à rotate for friction, heat & then smoke & fire
• Animals: billabong (pond), wallaby (Australian rodent), Worrora (underground shoots, yam), pardalote (bird that shouts when one approaches its waterhole), bustard: bird of easy prey