Correction. We are not Air Troopers. We are still RPs. Check your vocation from Mindef again. You are still a RP, not an Air Trooper. Air trooper is what they used to call RPs in FDS but not a lot of people call us that now. I don't like the term Air Trooper. Its not even accurate to call us that 'cause our job scope has nothing to do with the air above us. Anyway, the course you will be attending is called the FDC, Field Defence Course. Its basically a 3 months course and trust me, it will be even more hellish than your BMT training. Just be mentally prepared for it. You will be expected to build emplacements and learn all the arms learnt in command school (regret not making it to command school now?). To sum it up, you will be learning all the infantry ****. Just tahan the 3 months training + 2 weeks On Job Training and the rest will be just guard duty all the way. I'm from the previous 'lucky' batch who only went thru the 6 weeks training due to special circumstances but that just means our training schedules are damn tight. The only advice I can give to you is to brace yourself, and hope that all your CO, OC, CWO, PCs and specs treat you well.
