27th,28th: chemical warefare course
All combat personnel likely to go through this course.It teach us how to be prepared in a chemical weapon invasion.For example our ship is sprayed with chemical by enemy aircraft ,we have to act fast.hence this is the reson y we have to take this course.
We watch the videos and studied the lecture to know how to survive in a chemical gas environment, onfo on variuos lethal chemicals and how to inject andidote to a chemical inffected casualty).

Later we were issued with boots,gas mask,suit(with head hook) and pants(they were made from sepcial material to prevent chemical to invade our skin), and gloves.There will be practical test (2 drills)on the second day.

1 st drill is to hold our breath and close our eyes, and we change our filter cartridge(when we took out the old filtercartridge, all gas were free to enter which is dangerous when during chemical warefare.)Then we were to exhale hard to force the gas out.Then we can open our eyes.

2nd drill is to wear sponge cloth with powder.We to hold our breath with eyes closed, took off our mask and wipe our head, neck and mask.I forgot what's the purpose liao. I think is to cool down our skin.

2nd dAy
We took our test paper after lunch.I read through the thick lect notes for about half an hour this morning.Last night went to play soccer and went gym.As the result i get 60. anway after that we took our practical tear gas test. 2 of us were divided into 3 group. One group at the time we went into the room,tight shut.At this time we were in full battle order.the instructor used a barnson burner to heat up 2 tear gas tablets.He asked us whether we can smell the gas.Whoever smell the gas could mean ither his mask is loose or the filter cyliner is spoilt.the 1st drill is not a problem, but during the second drill,after i shut my eyes then i took off my mask and try to wear back, i found out that i can't wear them with my eyes shut.I try to peep and wear the mask, but the tear gas is burning my eyes!.Soonafter,the tear gas burns my exposed neck and face.I wave to signal the instructor and he helped me wear the mask.The tear gas is in the mask, and i exhale to force the teargas out.My tears start to roll and have a running nose.Now we left the third test.We form a queue and one by one we have to took off our mask and say out our rank and name with our eyes open then open the door and get out..I am the second last one and can see many of my buddies are in extreme discomfort when they took off theirmask.one even vomited outside.after that, i found my self cannot open my eyes.The tear gas gets contact with my eye so long that it hurts them. i can't see and i walk back slowly with eyes open and close.You may not understand how the pain goes, but its like putting chilli padi into your eyes. No joke!.the instructor tell me to open my eyes, so that the teargas in my eye will dissolve when contact with air and will be wash by my tears.I took 3 mins to recover....its a good expierience after all.

i told my friends that i had underextimate the power of tear gas.on the news ,we can see riots in indonesia etc.And the militart police will fire tear gas to disperse the crowd.So i used to think, so tear gas is to make pple cry onli mah, so scary meh~?just smoke onli.
but afetr undergone this course, i know that tear gas realli burns the exposed skin and eyes,resulting to have severe runing nose and tears raining.