Matteo: I really broke down…parang sumabog yung utak ko! 

HINDING-HINDI makakalimutan ni Matteo Guidicelli habang siya’y nabubuhay ang buwis-buhay na training niya sa Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Ayon sa asawa ni Sarah Geronimo, ang 45-day military training niya para maging Scout Ranger ang pinakamatinding hamon na hinarap niya sa kanyang buhay.

Ibinahagi ng aktor ang lahat ng pinagdaanan niya sa training sa  iWant documentary na “Ranger G” kung saan mapapanood kung gaano kahirap ang buhay ng isang sundalo.

“In the first week or so is basically they will break you down physically and mentally. So during that one, the (docu) crew was able to stay near me kasi I was inside the camp mismo. 

“The last week of the training phase that was mostly in the mountains already. It’s called Field Exercise Training. So everything we did during the three weeks, map reading, different kinds of attacks, ambush, etcetera. 

“We were exercising everything in the field na. When we went na to the field, not the whole crew came. Maybe just one or two, it was a skeletal force already because we were sleeping in the mountains and they had to do what we were doing,” pahayag ng singer-actor.

Pagpapatuloy pa niya, “Sabi ko sa sarili ko bago ako pumasok dito ikokondisyon ko yung sarili ko, yung katawan ko, yung physical aspect of things. 

“So bilang triathlete ginawa ko lahat. I really did what I could do, push ups, sit ups, kasi yun yung mga basic exercises ng military. 

“So I tried my best doing that. I felt like physically I was good, physically I was prepared. But I think on the third or fifth day into training that’s when I emotionally broke down. 

“You will be able to see it sa documentary because it was all captured there. I really broke down not just physically but emotionally and mentally.

“From a person that wasn’t used to the military life and then after one day transition na agad sa military life, talagang,” lahad pa ni Matteo.

Aniya, kung ano ang pinagdaraanan ng isang tunay na sundalo, yun din ang training na naranasan niya.

 “You can only eat, drink, go to the banyo, change, if your ranger instructor tells you to do so. So there were times na sobrang physically exhausted ka, sobrang init, marami ka ng paltos sa kamay, sa paa at marami kang gustong gawin pero hindi mo puwede gawin dahil you’re under observation.

“So I think that was the pinaka-challenge, the first week. But after the second or third week parang naging okay na lahat. Naka-adjust na ako,” kuwento pa ng asawa ni Sarah.