SOC

The infamous 1.5 KM SAF SOC (Standard Obstacle Course) is a yearly bane for all SAF personel holding a combat vocation. It is also one of the things that convinces me that the world is fair, some are just more fair than others. Why do I say that? Well I have seen people literally just laughing through the entire thing, thinking nothing of it, flying through the obstacles like poetry in motion. Passing the under 9 minute timing is nothing to these kind of people, some of which finish the course in under 8 minutes. Then there are people like me, who need nothing short of divine intervention to pass. The world is fair.

I took my SOC test last week, not expecting to pass. The conditions were bad, the weather sucked, I was not feeling all that well and I was under alot of pressure. Our OC wanted all of us in the company to pass before we went to Thailand for ATEC and I wanted to only suffer the evils of the SOC only once and did not want to run it again. In the words of my CSM, "Do it once, do it good."

I tried to get my head in the game at the start line, visualizing each obstacles along the way, saying a quick pray to God for strength and that whatever happens, it will be according to his will. On the word GO! my detail started running. At the very next moment I was at the finish line with everything happening in between a blur. Looking at my watch I went, "WOW! I actually passed!" The world is fair. If it is not I can be sure that I have a God who loves me and looks out for my interest no matter what. All things do indeed happen for the good of those who love Him.