Dr Alina Abdul Rahim
ROTU-2

There's nothing much you can choose during your cadet years...roll calls at nights, camping during semester breaks and parading under the hot sun on weekends. But after being commisioned, working and married? Not many will continue their army activities. As a woman, you need a supportive employer and husband. I am lucky to have both. So I have a very long (1994-2004) and exciting officer's life in ROTU.

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It was my duty to encourage junior female cadets not to give up. The physical trainings were tough, especially when the courses were shortern to 3 instead of 4 years as during my time. Lectures, exam and tutorials were hard to cope with a tired body. I always use my married, post grad and working status to motivate them. Nothing made me happier than seeing them being commisioned.(Pic: with Tan Mei, a Mass Comm grad)

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As an officer, the competition days were over, but one graduated to a higher calibre weapon. This one is a 7.57mm General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG). I used it at either Sg Besi or Asahan (Melaka) shooting range.

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60mm mortar at Asahan, Melaka shooting range. It landed 2km away and anyone standing within 15m radius will be killed.

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Our 25m pistol range was in our own campus

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2 Light Machine Gun (LMG) are allocated to each section of 10 soldiers as support weapons.

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(Pic: right) a 20mm grenade launcher attached to the M16 rifle. The killing radius is 5m.

We usually invited all the deans and varsity officials to join in our pistol shooting.