NPCC POP Reflections

Recently, for my CCA which is NPCC we had the Passing-Out-Parade. The Passing-Out-Parade is when the Secondary 4 Squad is officially dismissed from the Unit. This means that our Non-commissioned officers also known as NCOs are also leaving our squad.
Our NCOs have been the ones teaching us all the things we have learnt in NPCC. This includes drills; camp-craft skills, survival skills, weapon training and many of these take a long time to be able to master. Therefore, our NCOs have spent a lot of time and effort to teach us those skills. Although we are not masters of it yet, they have built our strong foundation and have prepared us for the final stage of our training in NPCC. We have built a strong bond between the NCOs and our squad and thus leaving them was quite an emotional moment for me. The NCOs have always been there to help me when I had doubts about anything, even when my doubts are things not related to NPCC training. I saw how bonded the Secondary 4 Squad was and they became my inspiration, my goal now is to achieve the same or even a stronger squad spirit in our squad. The handover ceremony, where our NCOs pass the responsibility over to the future Secondary 3 NCOs was very fascinating. I kept thinking throughout the handover ceremony if ever one day I had the chance to become an NCO, what kind of NCO would I become. Which one of my NCOs should I reference myself to, who shall be the one I idolize, and these thoughts were racing through my mind. After the handover ceremony, we had a debrief session with our NCOs (The one who just passed out, 2011 Secondary 4s). The NCOs were disappointed that our squad was not able to meet some of their expectations. For everyone in our squad the NCOs did one push-up as they thought they were at fault not being able to teach us well. I personally feel that it is not the NCOs fault and we should be blamed instead since we failed to learn what they were teaching. After that, we were handed over to our new NCOs. The new NCOs said this “SENIOR -> NOSIER -> NOISE -> ONE -> NO”. We are the most “SENIOR” training squad and in “SENIOR” we can form “NOSIER”, it is not wrong to be nosy if you want to learn more, being inquisitive would help a lot more. Then, from “NOSIER” we can form “NOISE”, we can make noise but there is a limit to this level of noise we make and we should be aware of it. Then, we can form “ONE” we are one squad not 46 individuals, thus we should show more squad spirit. Lastly, we can form “NO” we should learn to say “NO” instead of saying “Yes Sir” just for the purpose of it but we do not mean it. This debrief session has been one of the most meaningful one to me as I learnt many new stuff and realized many mistakes. I hope to not commit the same mistake again and I hope we could improve together as one squad.