hHope everyone's having a great holiday!

On Saturday 4 cadets represented our unit in the Inter-Unit Bowling Competition held at the Chervrons
Our participants were SSG Frederick, SSG Timothy, SGT Firdaus and CPL Timothy

The team managed to make it into the finals which consisted of 8 teams
And our CSM SSG Fred got 4 strikes in a row!
The power of the CSM!

Unfortunately we didn't win but hey, at least we got into the finals!
Well done to the team

And this is our beloved CSM

Announcements
Sec 2 Leadership Training will be every week on Wednesday's and Friday's from 2pm-5pm
Attendance is COMPULSORY

The training will be held for 3 weeks
If you want to be a future leader, be present at these trainings

That is all for now.
Have a HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

-SSG Timothy

From LTA (NCDCC) Hozefa's Desk...

Dear Cadets,

In less than a week, we will have our most important event of the year, the Annual Montfort Secondary School NCDCC Unit Investiture Parade 2008.

This week will be full of practices and we will have lots of work to do to polish up our drills on the parade square to preparing the logistics required for the parade.

Most of you will be receiving badges and awards. Your parents have been invited to the parade and the officers look forward to meeting them.

Please work hard to make this parade the best one possible!

I would also like to inform you that Mr Vincent Wong will be joining our unit. Some of you may have seen him at the last Saturday's training. Let us all warmly welcome him into the NCDCC family.

I will be away at Bangkok till the 22nd of August representing Singapore in the East Asian Youth Leader's Forum. Please do your best while I'm away and look forward to seeing a perfect parade when I see you guys at the camp on Friday.

Regards,
Hozefa

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Sec 3 SNCO's have been assigned their posts
They are,
SGT Frederick: CSM, PTI
SGT Timothy: ASM, Head Training, Bravo Sqaud IC
SGT Sheng Yong: ASM, Head Ops, Charlie Squad IC
SGT Amen: Logistics, Delta Squad IC
SGT Douglas: Administration
Also, all 5 will recieve their Staff Sergeant rank on the 23rd of August
Congrats to them!

-SGT Timothy

From LTA (NCDCC) Hozefa's Desk...

Dear Cadets,

Firstly, I would like to wish all of you a very Happy National Day.

5 Cadets form the Charlie squad did the unit, the school and NCDCC proud by representing NCDCC together with cadets from other schools in the National Day Parade 2008 by being part of the NCDCC contingent in the parade.

These five cadets, LCP Dzul, LCP Zhang Lin, LCP Arjun, LCP Han Jie and LCP Jie Ying worked very very hard over the past few months, sacrificing their time to attend the rehearsals and practice their drills over and over again together with personnel from other contingents. After many rehearsals, NE Shows and Previews, they performed magnificently together with the other NCDCC cadets during the NDP itself. Here are some photos:

Our cadets with their 'weapon', the umbrella. They formed the red letters using them.

Our cadets with their Instructor, SWO Rosly Tanjung.

Chilling out after a hard day's work!

I hope that all you you realise the significance of National Day. Our forefathers have worked very hard to make this country a home for us. It is our duty to ensure the survival of Singapore and make Singapore our best home. All of you, being members of the National Civil Defence Cadet Corps, play an important role in Total Defence in Singapore. You cadets are are important part of Civil Defence, spreading our message of readiness to your fellow countrymen.

When you put on your uniform, put it on with pride and utmost respect as the uniform signifies your service and contribution to the nation. Being a NCDCC cadet is no small thing. We are actively contributing to the nation and ensuring our survival. On this National Day, let us commit ourselves to our country and the defence of its people.

Once again, on behalf of Cpt Pang, Lta Irwan, Ms Ong and myself, Happy National Day!!!

Regards,
Hozefa

Today a group of 7 Montfortian NCDCC cadets truly lived up to the motto of the school by being men for others. They sacrificed their Sunday and precious free time to be part of a charity event, "WAFF: The Carnival". WAFF: The Carnival is a novel fundraising charity carnival that aims to educate the public about craniofacial conditions and raise funds to help children with such conditions. This is a collaborative project between students from the NUS University Scholars Programme (USP) and Operation Smile Singapore in aid of the Kandang Kerbau Hospital Cleft and Craniofacial Centre (KKH CCRC).

The NCDCC cadets from our unit provided first aid support for the event held at the *Scape Youtn Park. Starting as early as 8am in the morning till 8.30pm at night, these cadets did the unit proud. Their dedication and selflessness won praise from the event's guest-of-honour, Mr Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Community, Youth and Sports. He was pleased to see our cadets hard at work and being part of a worthwhile effort.

Our cadets shaking hands with Mr Teo Ser Luk, Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Community Youth and Sports.

Our cadets posing with Mr Teo Ser Luk.

Mr Pang and Sgt Sheng Yong setting up the First Aid Tentage.

Looking through the first aid supplies.

The sec one cadets who volunteered with Lta (NCDCC) Hozefa.

The sec one cadets who volunteered with Lta (NCDCC) Hozefa and Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Obama.

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Lta (NCDCC) Hozefa Aziz

This blog is finally being updated by someone other than LTA Hozefa

Yesterday was the very first training the sec 3's organized after going through SNCO course

Training was not really tough but more on the fun side

We started of with a very non strenuous PT

Then it was time for some activities

There were 2 groups. Both had a mixture of sec 1's and sec 2's

Mike and Whisky

There were altogether 4 stations

2 in school and another 2 in Punggol Park

In school there were the Trust and rescue stations

The Trust station was basically guiding your fellow squad mates while they're blindfolded over a series of obstacles

In the rescue station, the sec 2's were given and opportunity to practise their leadership skills by demonstrating the different rescue techniques

2 sec 1's would be casualties and the sec 2's had to demonstrate how to rescue them before the sec 1's attempt it

This allowed the sec 2's to have early practice of teaching and the sec 1's to have early exposure to Rescue techniques which they would be learning next year

On to Punggol park

There were the Fitness and Teamwork stations

In the fitness station the cadets did push ups, sit ups etc

In the Teamwork station, they really had quite a difficult time

There were 13 boxes, each made of masking tape placed on the floor

The whole group had to cross over these boxes in a specific path while holding hands (Yes the sec 3's made them do it)

Only 2 feet could be in 1 box at anytime

So they really had to rack their brains. Especially at the "Junctions"

There was a round 2 where they could not communicate at all

At the end of the day, everyone was tired but had fun

The groups were being graded and the winning group was Mike

And the runner up was Whisky

The sec 3's hope that everyone learnt something and that relations between the sec'1 and 2's improved

Ciao

-SGT Timothy

Hey cadets!

Hope you guys are enjoying your holidays. I think many of you have had the opportunity to participate in many exciting civil defence, leadership and adventure activities over the last few weeks through ncdcc.

Some of you were part of the very exciting 'Exercise Northstar'. This exercise simulated a scenario where a cruise ship was on fire and a mass casualty event occured. Many of you had related to your officers how much you had learnt seeing SCDF officers working with many related agencies to ensure that the 'casualties' were evacuated quickly and that many many lives were saved. For those of you who had missed this exciting opportunity, not to worry, NCDCC will provide many more such exciting opportunities ahead!

Six sec 1 cadets went for the Adventure Challenge organised by HQ NCDCC at the HomeTeamNS Bukit Batok Adventure Centre. I'm sure they had a lot of fun their pushing their limits, overcoming their fears and making many new friends with cadets from other units.

Last week, a 2-day 1-night leadership training camp was organised for selected sec 3 cadets who were earmarked for promotion to Staff Sergeant and to become the new leaders of the unit. The camp was organised by Cpt Kevin Pang, Lta Hozefa, WO Caleb castro and WO Johnathan Ng. The trainees went through team building activities, a scenario based exercise, footdrill training, MOI and a night hike.

This week, the cadets that were trained in the leadership training camp attended a 5-day SNCO course organised by HQ NCDCC at the Home Team Academy. There they learnt about being a better leader by inspiring their cadets to greatness, footdrills (Gold badge), MOI and many various aspects of being a good SNCO. They were awarded their certificates of completion by Commandant NCDCC, LTC Lim Kah Seng.


For the cadets from Bravo and Delta, if you aspire to be SNCOs just like your seniors, work hard over the next 1-2 years and one day you will emerge as leaders just like them!

Happy Holidays!