Everybody's a winner

Today we celebrated our battalion's 37th anniversary at the chevrons. I couldn't believe that we had a great time. The performances and games organised and put up by the contestants were splendid.
Companies cheering their mates on.
Contestants singing their hearts out.
Laughing at the antics of audiences at 5 SIR idol.
Everybody singing a b'day song.
Watching people drinking a concoction made up of seaweed, milk, tuna, capsicum... eewww.
But the best was everybody in the med platoon walked home with something.
Fairus won the 5 SIR idol competitions (it was a hands-down thing).
Azri and Thomas won for HQ the inter-Coy DOTA competition.
Luqman and Izaazz drank the concoction, and their mouth stinks afterwards.
While the rest of us took part in the Lord Of The Rings game where we came in 3rd (though we cheated).
The food was okay though we didn't have much time to eat.

I have in the Army long enough for me to forget how different indivuals can be. Behind the camoed uniform that we wear everyday lies indivuals with unique talents and behaviours. Be it singing, dancing, gaming, planning, talking or writing, they were brought together, each with their own different background to come together for a common goal but somehow the Army rarely provides outlets for talents like these to be nurtured in the Army.