So what happened in Field Camp? Well, just the usual routine, not many memorable things happened and I can't tell you much anyway, but one that I will never forget is when I met KD's friend right smack in the middle of the jungle during lunchtime, and also when he (they?) decided to pay a visit to my platoon shellscrape area in the middle of the night and bunk in. Ladies and gentlemen, meet...
KD's Friend
Yep. A freaking feral pig, AKA wild boar! In the first instance, me and my men were sitting on the ground having lunch, me with a mealbox with spaghetti inside, when I spotted a lone swine ambling towards us. It was a rather unnerving experience, I'd barely had much experience with a wild boar myself, and this was a hip-tall bulky male wild boar foraging for food 5-10m away from me... and food was exactly in my hands! O_O I had to remain calm and give instructions to my men on how to disengage slowly and react should Mr. Swine there happen to take much more interest in us. Happily, he minded his own business, ambled past into the bushes, u-turned, ambled past us again, and disappeared off into the bushes.
That's Incident No.1
Incident No.2
Incident No.2 occured the next night while the troops are preparing to harbour in their grave-holes to spend the night. My colleague informed me that there was a wild boar sighting within my platoon area, so I had to immediately got to the site of the...sighting... and investigated the commotion. Armed with a high-intensity diver's torchlight, I soon found the Sneaky Swine meandering amongst my troops. I stalked it with my torchlight, discovered that it was a small male, thankful that it wasn't a female with piglets, and drove the Pygmy Porker away by shining a high beam into its eyes. I thought that was the last I'd seen of it, but nooo. Soon reports were coming in that there were several sightings of wild boars in differing places, making me wonder if there was an entire family of wild boars or the single pig was adventurous enough to disturb other people. This time around, I discovered yet another male, a bigger one, identified by its swollen balls, and drove it away with my trusty torchlight. Things were getting irritating now, because everytime us commanders went back to rest, sooner or later cries of "Sir!/Sergeant!/Platoon Sergeant! Got wild boar!" resonated in the still of the night. I highly suspect that it's an entire family of wild boars out on a foraging trip, though why it consists exclusively of boorish male boars, swollen-balls and all, is anybody's guess. Then after all the fun is over and we decided we needed to rest, us commanders decided to let the men fend for themselves.
Walking back, I heard another recruit exclaim, "F*ck! Wild Boar!"
Haha.
I wonder if KD sent them to spy on boytoy or smtg?
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