My Experience At NFSS Camp: No More A Bloody Civilian

Greetings @everyone and welcome to my blog. Hope the weather is not treating us badly. Today, I'll be taking you around my experience at The NFSS Camp. Please, stay tuned and read through my post with love from @uyaiuyo

In my quest to leave the civilian lifestyle and to provide safety and security to my people and to secure the nation's forest of my dear Country Nigeria. I picked up a form to join the "Nigerian Forest Security Service" (NFSS). Form was successfully purchased and filled. Date to leave to camp was slated and I moved with the speed of light..... Smiles.

On the arrival day to camp, I left while rain was still falling and arrived the camp with a heavy down pour of rain. Little did I know that cold will soon become my best friend.

Later that same day, we were ushered inside the rain with our luggages still with us as the freshest 'Otondo' in town. Smiles. We sat under the rain till the rain stops and our clothes dried on our bodies.... Smiles.

We were later given a space to keep our heads were in a room we we stacked like ice fish and that was to tell us that we've left our comfort zone. Smiles.

Almost 70 people in a room, each small dormitory mattress to be shared by two people. Smiles. My eyes saw shege but in all of that I conquered.

Later that same night, we were assembled for prayers before we retired to our tiny little space.

As a soldier, you sleep with one eye closed and the other open. So every 2a.m, we will all be awake freshened up, moved to assemble ground for prayers by 4a.m and by 5:30am or 6am we are already in the training ground.

For lectures, leg work and other physical exercises. And yes, all these with an empty stomach so if one is an ulcer patient, this is not a place to be. Lol. So if you eat once or twice a day at the camp, you don't know what the lord has done for you. Soldier no dey chop, soldier no dey bath. Smiles.

Some days, when we ran out of water in the camp, pure water is always the way out. Imagine buying two bags of pure water to bath, wash and still do other things.... Lol! Who send me? Na me send myself o

Of course, I made friends with some jolly good fellows, my bonky (my space partner) Mary (very calm) and some other officers as well.

Did I tell you that if you do small mistake while training is ongoing na 'condo' go land for your back, head, buttocks or legs. Or while the parade is ongoing and you make mistakes with turning or halting na your head you go pin or even roll or climb mountain..... Lol. All these was to shape us and to removed the civilian blood we came with to the camp and to embrace the military blood.... Smiles. I was a nice and amazing experience.

While on lectures, parade, leg work or any form of physical exercises and it rains or it's sunny, we are not permitted to make a move. You remain still under the rain nor sun and that's what differentiates us from bloody civilian as there will be no shelter while on duty in the forest..... Funny but true.

We were also trained on how to handle several weapons like gun, sword, arrows, condo, and lots more. We were trained on marshall and carate fights, different survival measures was also demonstrated.

Did I tell you that a lot of people lost their valuables, some out of carelessness while some were actually stolen. In a place where different people who were raised with different backgrounds and home trainings gathers, things like that often happens.

On the evening of our camp fire night, my box key was stolen and that night is always a very dangerous night. So, it happened that I've never dropped my key nor phone, always puts them intact on my waist bag. So, this particular evening, one of the Officers who's also a content creator, called me out because he dropped somethings under my care. I had just freshened up and camp out when he called. I dropped the bag on my bed, stepped out to the varander to meet him, not up to 10 seconds, I ran back to pick the bag from the bed only to realized my box key is no where to be found and all my personal belongings and other valuables were inside the box.

That was how I ended up rolling my box to camp fire night. I refused to keep it in our room, so that the person can't access the box. I rolled the box again to early morning prayers unknowingly that the person sneaked the key back into my waist bag the previous night and I got to find it on assembly ground. Hence; the saying "if you can't beat them you join them". So since the person could not access the box, she quietly returned the key..... Smiles. That was how I had what to wear for my Passing Out Parade of which I was in Guard One. These were my experiences at the camp.

N/B All images are my property and was shot with my Infinix Smart 9 HD