arit Raja, Johor – Reserve Officer Training Unit (ROTU) UTHM had carried out an annual event to their cadet officer. The event was held at ROTU UTHM quarters with 213 cadet officers has joined the event. All the cadet officer were from different faculties in UTHM,
many of them were from faculty of mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering.
The event was held from 6th April – 12th April 2014 during midterm break. This is one of task for them sacrificing their holidays to join the event. This event is one of the requirement for them to commission in becoming a young officer in military services.
In this event all the cadet will follow 2 phases of exercises which is outdoor and indoor.
For outdoor activity the event was held at Yong Peng, Johor. At there all the cadet were divided into 12 syndicate which is each of the syndicate contain 1 platoon or 30 members. In a group they need to walk from Yong Peng and heading back to UTHM guided map and a compass. If they not reach to the check point which had been set in the map they will spend all their night at everywhere they reach and eat what did they brought or what did they found. This activity were called compass matching and survival.
Commandant in charge of ROTU UTHM, Major Lokman Bin Hakim had spoken during parade opening,
“As a cadet officer you need to change your mentality and make the exercise not as a thing that burden yourself but as a training to build up own personality and ready to dare everything in the future.”
After finished the outdoor phase, all the cadet officer continued their exercise with indoor activity. Water confident activity was held at the UTHM swimming pool for one day. The activity were conducted by outside training coach special from the Physical Training Intensive Unit (PTI) from Military Camp of Terendak, Melaka. On the third day of activity, all the cadet officer were joined committee services around Parit Raja. They were divided by three company which is senior, intermediate, and junior. All the company were separated to three places which is Parit Jelutong for junior, Parit Haji Salleh Ros for Intermediate and Parit Daun for senior.
From the event one of the cadet officer said that, he feel really lucky joining ROTU UTHM because so many benefit he got from the event. Not only he can learned how to survival in continuing live but also he learn how to become a real man and how to deal a problem in a real situation.
Prepared by
Mohamad Izwan Saifudin Bin Mohd Zainuri
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