MC for BMT

[benningtonsoon]

I am serving my NS now, the confinement period. My PES status is C9L2. I am physically fit and I'm very particular about fitness. Unfortunately I fell down 1.5 years ago during gymnastics and fractured my wrist so that explains for my PES status. They said it's a temporary PES because I will have to go for a surgery to fix my broken wrist, after which I may be able to up my PES status.

Life is honestly very boring being in PES C and excused from upper limb exercises. I can't even play captain's ball. WTH. I'm just sitting down for most of the physical activities which I find that time pass even slower.

I understand from my sergeants and officers that to up PES I will have to retake BMT again to go through field camps and leadership training etc. I feel that it's so troublesome to go through everything again. So maybe I'll wait till my BMT is over then I'll fix an appointment for a surgery.
However yesterday, my third day of confinement, I slipped and fell forward. I landed on my injured wrist and that was it, it started hurting real badly. It was painful, but it's bearable because I'm used to the pain that my wrist have given me throughout the 1.5 years. I asked to see the MO because I wanted to get medical gel to apply on the injured wrist. That didn't happen but instead they say they'll have to send me to mainland to do an x-ray. I was thinking, hmmm mainland means I get to go home and probably got a few days MC off. That's not bad...

Then BAM... when I saw the doctor, they gave me 3 WEEKS hospitalisation MC. I knew I am screwed. The MC ends on 1st December 2014, which is 1 week more of BMT before I'm posted to vocational training. I'm really depressed now as I don't want to serve another round of BMT. I can't do **** because in the army the doctor's words are final.

I'm wondering if there's anyway I can do to not retake BMT?

Honestly why do they have to give me 3 weeks MC and I have to stay home? Why can't they just give me a few days off then let me get back to camp and sit through the 1 month of BMT in tekong? Besides, I don't get to do any physical activities also during BMT and I can't get out of home... so why can't I just be there to sit through so I don't have to retake BMT?
Please help me! I'm so depressed.

 

[reddevil0728]

I am serving my NS now, the confinement period. My PES status is C9L2. I am physically fit and I'm very particular about fitness. Unfortunately I fell down 1.5 years ago during gymnastics and fractured my wrist so that explains for my PES status. They said it's a temporary PES because I will have to go for a surgery to fix my broken wrist, after which I may be able to up my PES status.

Life is honestly very boring being in PES C and excused from upper limb exercises. I can't even play captain's ball. WTH. I'm just sitting down for most of the physical activities which I find that time pass even slower.

I understand from my sergeants and officers that to up PES I will have to retake BMT again to go through field camps and leadership training etc. I feel that it's so troublesome to go through everything again. So maybe I'll wait till my BMT is over then I'll fix an appointment for a surgery.
However yesterday, my third day of confinement, I slipped and fell forward. I landed on my injured wrist and that was it, it started hurting real badly. It was painful, but it's bearable because I'm used to the pain that my wrist have given me throughout the 1.5 years. I asked to see the MO because I wanted to get medical gel to apply on the injured wrist. That didn't happen but instead they say they'll have to send me to mainland to do an x-ray. I was thinking, hmmm mainland means I get to go home and probably got a few days MC off. That's not bad...

Then BAM... when I saw the doctor, they gave me 3 WEEKS hospitalisation MC. I knew I am screwed. The MC ends on 1st December 2014, which is 1 week more of BMT before I'm posted to vocational training. I'm really depressed now as I don't want to serve another round of BMT. I can't do **** because in the army the doctor's words are final.

I'm wondering if there's anyway I can do to not retake BMT?

Honestly why do they have to give me 3 weeks MC and I have to stay home? Why can't they just give me a few days off then let me get back to camp and sit through the 1 month of BMT in tekong? Besides, I don't get to do any physical activities also during BMT and I can't get out of home... so why can't I just be there to sit through so I don't have to retake BMT?
Please help me! I'm so depressed.

1) Get PES F to be discharged from the military.
2) Keep delaying your recourse until there's no time for recourse.
3) Go back to the doctor and try to persuade your doctor to void the MC so you can go back for BMT.

I don't think any of the 3 options are easy.

Well, I don't think any of us here can read the mind of your doctor, so we can only speculate but not tell you exactly why. My speculation is that's the standard MC length that the doctor usually give for the condition that you have. He doesn't know or he ain't aware about your BMT so his decision on the length of your MC is independent of what you do for your BMT.

Then again, (I am assuming) you didn't help yourself by not speaking out and asking your doctor to give you such a long MC.

I think if you can be depressed over such thing, you are literally abusing the use of depressed. You should go and see a shrink about why you are being depressed for not getting to do things instead of being forced to do things.

 

[mgx-alander]

3days only and u feel bored? like that how to tahan 2 years

oh wait no 12 years including ict

 

[reddevil0728]

3days only and u feel bored? like that how to tahan 2 years

oh wait no 12 years including ict

so true. nowadays people like to abuse the word "depress"

 

[Magickiller9]

I am serving my NS now, the confinement period. My PES status is C9L2. I am physically fit and I'm very particular about fitness. Unfortunately I fell down 1.5 years ago during gymnastics and fractured my wrist so that explains for my PES status. They said it's a temporary PES because I will have to go for a surgery to fix my broken wrist, after which I may be able to up my PES status.

Life is honestly very boring being in PES C and excused from upper limb exercises. I can't even play captain's ball. WTH. I'm just sitting down for most of the physical activities which I find that time pass even slower.

I understand from my sergeants and officers that to up PES I will have to retake BMT again to go through field camps and leadership training etc. I feel that it's so troublesome to go through everything again. So maybe I'll wait till my BMT is over then I'll fix an appointment for a surgery.
However yesterday, my third day of confinement, I slipped and fell forward. I landed on my injured wrist and that was it, it started hurting real badly. It was painful, but it's bearable because I'm used to the pain that my wrist have given me throughout the 1.5 years. I asked to see the MO because I wanted to get medical gel to apply on the injured wrist. That didn't happen but instead they say they'll have to send me to mainland to do an x-ray. I was thinking, hmmm mainland means I get to go home and probably got a few days MC off. That's not bad...

Then BAM... when I saw the doctor, they gave me 3 WEEKS hospitalisation MC. I knew I am screwed. The MC ends on 1st December 2014, which is 1 week more of BMT before I'm posted to vocational training. I'm really depressed now as I don't want to serve another round of BMT. I can't do **** because in the army the doctor's words are final.

I'm wondering if there's anyway I can do to not retake BMT?

Honestly why do they have to give me 3 weeks MC and I have to stay home? Why can't they just give me a few days off then let me get back to camp and sit through the 1 month of BMT in tekong? Besides, I don't get to do any physical activities also during BMT and I can't get out of home... so why can't I just be there to sit through so I don't have to retake BMT?
Please help me! I'm so depressed.

Impossible to reverse. I was on the last month of BMT (PTP batch) and doctor wanted to give me a month's attend B, which means OOT and potential recourse ( I already did fieldcamp and every single activity except live shooting which was about to began).

I argued with the doctor for quite some time before he agreed to give me 1 day attend B instead. So that i can attend route march and live shooting, but if anything even the slightest thing goes wrong i would have to report to him immediately.

I know some people who just accepted the 1month attend B or MC and end up recourse.

 

[j_t_fusion]

convince your doctor to perform the surgery to fix the broken wrist immediately.