BATTLE OF PLATOONS - PART 1 PLANK HOLD

Battle of platoon is CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP, Malaysia (COBC) inaugural event to mark COBC's first year anniversary. From now, the Battle of Platoons will be an annual event fought on every COBC's anniversary. The battle of platoons was conducted to determine which platoon is the strongest in a friendly, enjoyable and slightly competitive manner".

The CHIEF'S first Battle of Platoons was held yesterday on 17 July 2011 at Damansara Height base camp and a war cry was sent out 2 weeks ago. It was a battle between 3 platoons namely, Bandar Utama Spartans, Damansara Heights Highlander and Subang Jaya USJ Legends. To instill the spirit of camaraderie, BU-Alpha platoon and BU-Bravo platoon was merged into the Spartans, UJS1-Alpha and USJ1-bravo merged into the Legends and Damansara Heights Zulu made up the Highlanders.

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Pre-battle: the Spartans!

The Legends

The highlander!!

The team involved were Sarge (COBC) Dann, Corp (COBC) Chun, Corp (COBC) Nawal, Corp (COBC) Tom, LC (COBC) (P) ODY, LC (COBC) (P) Wan, LC (COBC) (P) Letch, LC (COBC) (Admin) Farhanah and LC (COBC) (Admin) Rose. We were grateful to the team whom burned the midnight oil and slept at 1am preparing the equipments, score board, food, drinks, medals, trophy, maps, riddles, puzzles, ribbons etc etc and woke up again at 3am to prepare the treasure hunt route and equipments. Recruits went on battle mode on facebook for the whole week and arrived early this morning to prepare themselves. This is the first part of many series to come. There were more than 2,000 pictures which will be uploaded in a few parts.

Imran Sheikh, the highlander Captain

Captain James Fong (Spartans) & Thomas Ong (Legends)

The Score-Board and Rose Emini Pahamin

The Spartan were hip & confident to win.. they have the numbers, they have the Deltas, they were ready against all odd!!

Good Loud War Cry, Good face-paint and good spirit!!

They all warm-up by themselves and at 6:00am sharp!!! everyone were commanded to the battle field.. do or die, sweat or bleed.. the time has come.....

Battle under the moonlight!!!

The first course.. Plank- hold challenge!!!

The more than a total 100 Recruits were divided into their respective rank Ranger, Seal and Delta with a mixture of Spartans, Highlander and Legends. The rule was simple!!! Reiterating the importance of good perfect form, any recruit without a good form is eliminated. Those eliminated must stay and cheer at their team mate from their position. Instructors were instructed to tap any recruit without a good form and the last person that maintain their plank-hold shall win the first challenge for their platoon. There will be one winner for each category Ranger, Seal and Delta.