Jcats exercise yesterday. Was very interesting.

Helped the commanders with the application. One of them.. Mortar OC was having alot of fun from the exercise. Kept talking to himself and making funny comments like "behold the wrath of the heavens" and "lets rock!" Haha. Then some enemy scout apparantly took out his entire company and another by just lying in a pile of bodies and avoided being spotted as he slowly took his time sniping them down one by one. Talk about cheap.

Then after we magically resurrected his artillary his area of fire accidentally nailed some allies troops then we heard from across the room "walau... You're better off dead la!" Haha.

But the real eye-opener was the after action review. When the Colonel talked about fighting spirit and morale of the commanders and men, I was so drawn into it. Whenever you go into battle you must go in with the expectation to win, or don't go in at all. Once you let yourself get into the mindset that you've lost, then you're in dangerous territory.

Morale must be efforted to be kept high, because as a leader, your men will reflect your own morale. And if they are low they will give so much less for the battle.

I couldn't help but realize how much his words reflected my views on dragonboating. And I realized then oc was right when he said I would be missing out on so much to learn.

But it seems I may be able to learn some in the end.