Tribulation is an experience of life. Only those who have experienced adversity and tribulations can grow better and deeply understand the taste of happiness and joy!

At 6 p.m. on February 1, 1987 (the fourth day of the Lunar New Year), the Spring Festival holiday ended.

At the time of the training of recruits, there were originally two camps. Since the division of troops, Camp 2 has been empty and uninhabited. So on February 2, Wang Linlin and his comrades-in-arms were responsible for moving many things there to Camp No. 1, and there were a lot of things to be moved, but fortunately, there were also a lot of people. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the things were moved, but everyone was tired enough, especially the sore shoulders.

On the morning of the 3rd, the head of the camp held an "opening ceremony" for everyone, and distributed teaching materials, pencils, stationery boxes, knives and notebooks to all the operators, plotters, and newspaper operators. Many comrades-in-arms have just walked out of school, and today they are dealing with books again, but they look very funny when they see everyone like a primary school student!

The content of professional training is mainly radio theory learning, because most people have learned physics knowledge when they are students, so everyone can still listen and understand clearly at the beginning, and life is relatively easy.

In this state of peaceful life, the head of the camp assigned a new task to everyone: growing vegetables.

In the depressions at the front and back of the camp, each comrade-in-arms was given his own vegetable patch. Wang Forest and Ma Xiaobing were divided together, and the location was located at the location where they had learned to aim at before. Morning, noon, evening, or holidays are used to cook the vegetable patch, and camp leaders, squad and platoon leaders also conduct regular inspections.

In the army, every comrade-in-arms should have the impression that if he does not do anything, he will do it, and if he does, he will go all out and be extremely serious! Wang Linlin remembers that the vegetable fields at that time were as delicate as handicrafts, with smooth surfaces and distinct ravines!

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and everyone suddenly received an order to participate in the parade. As a result, everyone was busy with professional study and military parade training, and no longer had time to care about growing vegetables; in the end, it was a pity that the hard work of those days and the vegetables that had just emerged were still in the sprouts.

With the deepening of study, the specialized courses became more and more difficult, and everyone gradually entered a state of seeming to understand but not understanding; especially after receiving the notice of the big military parade, the comrades-in-arms often trained during the day and studied at night. At that time, everyone was physically and mentally exhausted and nervous, but the head of the camp did not relax at all, but grasped it tighter!

What's particularly bad is that there are two other problems that seriously bother you -

First, the comrades-in-arms come from many different places across the country, and each place has different eating habits: some like to eat pasta, some like rice, and some like spicy or sweet...... This is also known as "difficult to reconcile".

At that time, the camp's rice quota was severely inadequate, and three meals a day were served with pasta. Wang Linlin and many of his comrades-in-arms were not used to eating this continuous pasta at all; they only remembered that everyone was dizzy, their stomachs were swollen and weak, and some even had prostration and high fever.

When the time of the meal arrives every day, everyone sighs, and if you see rice or noodles, it is like a festival. To this day, if Wang Linlin sees batter and gnocchi, he will still be sick to his stomach - still the scene of the past.

Next to the camp cafeteria, there is a small shop for comrades-in-arms, who only knows that biscuits, canned food, instant noodles and other foods are often snapped up.

Second, the camp's pumping generator is always out of order, so there is often a shortage of water. As a result, it has become a major task for everyone to carry water in the basin.

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But what is gratifying is that in such a difficult environment, Wang Linlin and his comrades-in-arms still achieved good results in the acceptance assessment on May 14!

On the way forward in life, encouragement and support are always inseparable, because that is the driving force and direction to move forward.

During his studies as a controller, Wang received a letter from two cousins in Beijing. He carefully read the full text, and was quite moved and benefited in his heart, and now excerpts the full text of this letter as follows-

Letter from my cousin in Beijing (full text)

Cousin of the forest is good:

We are really surprised and ashamed to hear from you. The surprise is the cousin I missed in the past: now he has grown into a handsome young man. Shame on us for our dereliction of duty as sisters.

Cousin, when my aunt wrote that you had left home to join the army, we were as worried about you as my aunt. It is really difficult to worry that you are young and alone, and you have to rely on yourself for everything; but we know that you have lofty ambitions, and you are not satisfied with the isolation of your hometown; you are not willing to be lonely, and you are determined to get out of the narrow world and go to the vast world to exercise yourself and absorb nutrients; I hope that you will make a difference in the future, which is what every young person yearns for, so we understand your behavior.

Recently, television has been broadcasting reports on the graduates of the radar school who have signed up to go to the frontier. Whenever this happens, we think of you, who is also a cousin of the radar soldiers. Please accept our wishes for you: good health and better weight!

Cousin, you have written to say that there is some emptiness and loneliness, and we think that this is due to the monotony of the army and the uniform daily life, but you may not have tried to find the joy of pleasure in the monotony of life.

First of all, you should study the relevant radar control techniques well, and at the same time, you should pay attention everywhere, ask questions if you don't understand, and don't stick to one technology, because if you can learn more, it will always be useful; second, you should make friends with books, and you should not be demanding to read more than 10,000 books, but you should also have a broad view of various fields of knowledge; when reading literary works, you should try your best to read some famous works and some books that can cultivate your sentiments, so that you will find many soulmates and get spiritual and emotional comfort from them. Also, you should not be too restrained yourself, you should try to get in touch with some of your comrades-in-arms as much as possible, you will find all kinds of people, and you can get excellent qualities from them to make up for your own shortcomings and promote yourself to maturity. In addition, cousin, I don't know if your army has the opportunity to apply for the military academy, if so, you must fight for it, because it will not work without a degree in the future.

Cousin, I don't know if these long-winded words will help you, but we will be glad if there is. In the future, if you have some ideas or questions that you don't understand, I hope to write to us to discuss them together; if you need our help in life or any aspect, please feel free to write to us! Little brother, you're welcome!

Well, that's all for this time.

May you be in good spirits, lively and happy!

Cousin: Xiaoqing, Jingjing 87.3.2