On 1 October, the Fertile Ground Navy's flight training base was decorated with lights, and the officers and men were beaming with joy and walking with their heads held high when they spoke.

It's so infuriating.

The resources of the whole army are unconditionally tilted, a lot of time and resources have been spent, a lot of effort has been paid, and at the same time, it has also endured some doubts, and the Flying Shark unit has been immersed in the work of "dancing on the tip of the knife" in order to be able to stand in front of the whole world today and say, "We are a carrier-based fighter unit with combat effectiveness!" ”。

Who knows how they spent all those years? Hundreds of millions of dollars of fighter planes are driving, food is eaten for sixty or seventy yuan a day, thousands of tons of aviation fuel are burning, and thousands of trolley fees are being taken! I'm afraid it's rare to be able to experience the feeling of being soaked in a honeypot while doing the job of dancing with death.

"We are not here to prove that we are great, but to prove that all the enemies in front of us are rubbish!"

Such words are too special to be diplomatic rhetoric like "this live-fire exercise is a normal arrangement of annual training, not against anyone, but to say that you are all garbage".

However, it is a true portrayal of the psychological activities of the officers and men of the Flying Shark Unit.

How dare a person with no temper do such a dangerous job? Dream on!

They were finally able to stand under the military flag and solemnly take over the banner from the hands of their superiors -- a certain unit of the carrier-based aircraft unit of the Chinese Navy's air force, referred to as a certain unit of the HNA unit, also known as the flying shark unit.

The appointment certificate was announced at the flag presentation ceremony at the general meeting.

Mo Ren'an was promoted, the commander of the aircraft carrier, and the deputy army. Lao Chen Tou officially served as the political commissar of the Flying Shark Force and the Grand Calibrator. Li Zhan took over the position of Li Lao Chen Tou and became the chief instructor of the Flying Shark Force, but this chief instructor is not a temporary position, but a formal appointment, but the rank has been reduced, and the rank of Li Zhan himself has not changed.

As for the much-anticipated first captain of the Flying Shark Force, Dai Wenming is expected, which is expected - as long as Mo Ren'an progresses, the position of the troop commander is Dai Wenming, and there is no second possibility. With Dai Wenming's pioneering work, he has to do it as a general, and he is still so young.

Cadres above the deputy regimental level, including the deputy regimental level, have been appointed, which means that the overall structure of the Flying Shark unit has taken shape. There was just a situation that surprised Li Zhan that some of the ground crew of the Siding Bomber Division were taken in by the Flying Shark Force, of course, selected elites.

The bomber division was officially handed over to the HNA, two old H-6s were eliminated, and the rest of the fighters were all incorporated into the downsized regiment, and the number of soldiers was reduced by two-thirds. Chen Jialiang also officially became a full-time pilot of a bomber division of Hainan Airlines.

Obviously, the entire operation process has been considered by the superiors, first receiving the establishment, and then selecting the elite from scratch and then laying off the staff. Of course, they are all good soldiers, but better soldiers must be selected from the good soldiers.

Li Zhan hoped that Chen Jialiang could come to Flying Shark, and it would be absolutely no problem to serve as a leader in charge of aircraft maintenance and logistics, but he knew that Chen Jialiang was also a person who regarded flying as his life, and he would rather change jobs if he couldn't fly. Sometimes the offensive attributes of flying a bomber are even higher than that of a fighter.

The grand flag-awarding ceremony and celebration of the National Day were over, and the only thing that made many people feel puzzled and a little aggrieved was that Li Zhan actually failed to serve as the deputy commander of the army, at least he had to be the chief of staff. Although it is said that the chief of staff is also at the regimental level, this position is far more important than that of the chief instructor, and it is full of gold.

In wartime, the chief of staff is the number three chief, and the deputy commander of the unit has to stand aside.

Everyone can only guess like this: It is estimated that it is because the Flying Shark Force will focus on training in the next few years, so Li Zhan is placed in the position of chief instructor.

This guess is correct.

It is only natural for Zhang Xueyang to serve as chief of staff.

He is enough to hold this position in any way, and as for the issue of obtaining qualifications to board ships, in fact, the higher-level leading organs will no longer make hard requirements for him, and he only needs to be a benchmark there.

Besides, his level is already enough.

The Flying Shark unit is relatively special, there are a lot of officers, and the lieutenants have become a rare species, so most of them are ordinary pilots. In the Flying Shark Unit, which concentrates the elite of the entire army's aviation units, it is difficult to sit in a mixed position, and it must be outstanding. There are not a few people like Cao Fufei who have served as deputy regiment commanders and regiment commanders, and ordinary pilots who are not obedient when it comes to flying sharks.

From this point of view, Li Zhan is not wronged.

The chief instructor is naturally related to teaching and training, and of course also takes into account combat training. Li Zhan can't do administration, this is a well-known thing, when he was in Beiku to run the Eagle Falcon Brigade, he didn't care about anything else except for personally calculating everyone's trolley fees, Xue Cannon helped him manage it.

Knowing people and being good at their jobs is the ability of leadership, and it is a waste to put a combat training talent like Li Zhan in a management position, consider it, and let him be responsible for leading new people to give full play to his role, and at the same time take into account combat training, which is simply perfect. Of course, the air division wants to get people back, and for them, Li Zhan's arrival at HNA is a cameo role, even if the establishment is transferred from the air division to the sea division. The way of thinking of the air division is relatively old, which leads them to ignore the basic fact - Li Zhan's establishment is in the sea division, and if the sea division does not loosen its mouth, people will not be able to run out of the naval system.

The leaders of the air force can only look at the list of members of the air force talent pool and sigh at the "war".

The nine pilots, including Li Zhan, became Flying Shark pilots and obtained the qualification to fly on the ship, and then they had to complete the required number of takeoffs and landings, and then they could obtain the qualification for daytime landing. Generally speaking, several carrier-based flight qualifications are ultimately defined by landing, and having the ability to take off on the ship naturally means having the ability to take off on the ship.

The No. 16 ship returned to Hong Kong again to replenish the situation, and the troops needed to analyze and summarize the situation of the first actual aircraft landing and make a new round of adjustments to the operational specifications to suit the specific situation. After these preparations are completed, the No. 16 ship will set off again for training, and the next training will be mainly based on carrier-based fighter units.

Li Zhanman thought that after completing the analysis and summary work, he could set sail with the ship for training, but after he submitted the analysis and summary report, an order came to him -- to participate in the recruitment work.

"Mr. Zhang, where will I recruit and fly, it's okay to bring new recruits, I really don't understand this to pick up soldiers." Li Zhan smiled bitterly and said to Commander-in-Chief Zhang, who walked to his office in person to inform him.

The Flying Shark unit was completed on the ship, the troops were formed, the temporary establishment was cancelled, and Deputy Chief Zhang Yi no longer served as the commander-in-chief, but everyone was used to being called Mr. Zhang, so he was called so. Deputy Chief Zhang Yi will stay in the Flying Shark Unit until the end of the year, and then return to the leading organs of the Navy in the capital to go through the formalities when he retires. He decided to spend the last day of his military career in the Flying Shark Force, and when he arrived, he was even more detached, without any arrogance, and walked around with his hands behind his back like a veteran, if not for the rank of lieutenant general.

"Your master has brought not 10,000 but 8,000 soldiers, and there are few who can make him look at them, and you are the only one who makes him full of praise. He said that if you can do the job, you can do it, and his words are the most authoritative, more authoritative than me, the deputy chief of the Navy. Veteran Zhang Yi smiled and pointed at himself.

Li Zhan was stunned, "Chief, do you know my master?" ”

"Liu Guojian, Liu Madman, who doesn't know." Veteran Zhang Yi said with a smile, "More than ten years ago, there was a tactical seminar, and your master and I had opposite opinions, and we had a very frank and sincere debate at the venue. ”

"It's just a quarrel at the venue." Li Zhan said.

Zhang Yi nodded, "It can be interpreted like this." ”

Li Zhan said helplessly, "But I really don't have any experience in picking troops, mainly because I don't know how to look at people who don't have any flying foundation." If you let me select pilots in the army to enter the Flying Shark, I still have some confidence, and I am really not sure about recruiting pilots. ”

This is not a shirk, but a matter of knowing one's own business. It is not an easy task to recruit flies in the local area, not only must you have a vicious gaze and analytical judgment ability, but also have strong willpower to ensure that you will not be bombarded indiscriminately by a small group of people in the local area.

Veteran Zhang Yi said, "This matter has been decided, you sit down." ”

After Li Zhan sat down, veteran Zhang Yi became serious and said, "We are considering establishing a training system for junior carrier-based fighter pilots, extending the training model to the beginning, and finally forming a complete training system for carrier-based fighter pilots." This year's recruitment is the first batch, and this work is of an experimental nature, and the higher-level leading organs are very concerned. Relying on the Air Force for blood transfusions is not a long-term solution, and the Air Force will not agree. ”

"Understood." Li Zhan nodded solemnly.

Objective facts are the case, at present, the Flying Shark unit can only select pilots from other units to carry out modification and flight training, and the training time is of course shorter than starting from scratch, and the training effect is certainly better than starting from scratch. However, not to mention the air force aviation system, even other aviation units in the naval aviation system have always had a great opinion on the essence of flying sharks.

What is not said in the case of a game of chess for the whole army, asking people to give people resources to resources, just like the various construction battles in the past, when the forces of the whole country were concentrated to do great things, all of them were unconditional, all-out support, and did not ask for anything in return. This is our institutional advantage, but if it is normalized, it will seriously weaken the competitiveness of enterprises, and if it is a military force, the army will of course also have a dependency mentality, which will have a counterproductive effect on improving combat capability.

Therefore, after the first batch of pilots successfully boarded the ship, the leading organs at the higher level should put the primary training of carrier-based fighter pilots on a daily basis.

"The Air Force allows us to pick first, and of course Hainan Airlines will give you the priority of flying sharks. My request is to try to make sure that there is a brigade of people who complete the primary stage. The burden on your shoulders is heavy. Veteran Zhang Yi said.

Li Zhandao, "Four years of preparatory school plus one year of training base, considering the particularity of carrier-based pilots, on this basis, it will take at least six years to recruit new recruits this year to complete all the training before the actual aircraft landing, and the effect cannot be guaranteed." ”

"Chief, to be honest, I personally think it's a bit hasty to start recruiting from the local government now. There is an essential difference between a recent high school graduate and a new pilot who has already entered the military service, and I mean the difference beyond flying skills. I am not confident in the yield of training these children with the standard of carrier-based fighter pilots as the traction. ”

"Yield rate, this word is not used appropriately, and the success rate is more appropriate." Veteran Zhang Yi said with a smile

Li Zhan smiled awkwardly, he did have some traditional ideas of not treating recruits as human beings. Military personnel are a special group, and the military is a special class, which cannot be judged by the conventional standards of the locality.

Veteran Zhang Yi said, "I understand your concerns. Our Flying Shark Preparatory Class implements a separate plan, spring enrollment, three and a half years of preschool, one and a half years of training base, and half a year of modification, for a total of 66 months. The reduction of pre-school by half a year is mainly achieved by increasing the course schedule, which I believe is not difficult to overcome. ”

"That's six months shortened, well, there's a bit of leeway." Li Zhan nodded slightly.

He also thought of a question: By the time this year's batch of prospective pilots specially recruited for the Flying Shark unit enter the training base stage, it is estimated that the carrier-based advanced training aircraft should also be put into service. All aspects are determined after unified analysis and careful consideration, and it is by no means a matter of patting the head and giving an order.

Veteran Zhang Yi said, "Your task is to select talents, and when they enter the training base after three and a half years, it will be different if you will be an instructor at that time, so you don't need to worry about it at all." ”

Li Zhan shook his head and said, "Chief, I'm worried that my energy will be involved, but based on my personal experience, I'm worried about whether doing this will have an efficiency-to-cost ratio. I believe that at least within three years, it is necessary to train outstanding pilots from other air units, and then three more batches of personnel, the unit will be fully formed, and there will be enough qualified personnel for combat and training, and then it will be expanded to the beginning at that time, and this is the best plan. ”

The key is that there are too few talented people who have the ability to serve as carrier-based flight instructors, and they cannot take care of training if they can take care of operations, let alone fill in the teaching of the primary stage. In the next three to five years, the Flying Shark unit will basically focus on training, and while training, it will form various combat strengths, and this is a relatively long process and an objective fact.

Of course, veteran Zhang Yi is clear, but from his position, it is very necessary to take precautions, even if the success rate is not ideal, the experience gained in the process is worth doing, which is a strategic decision. Li Zhan does not have such a big picture, and he simply considers the problem from the level of tactics and the combat capability of the troops, and of course he will have completely different views.

"You have a point. From a long-term point of view, from the perspective of the overall development of the naval forces, and taking into account the progress of the development of relevant equipment, it is appropriate to carry out the first batch of recruits this year. Don't look ahead and backward, doing a good job of recruiting pilots is a great achievement. Veteran Zhang Yi said with a smile.

"I understand, I'm absolutely wholeheartedly doing my job well."

It took a long time for Li Zhan to understand after sending away Zhang Yi's veteran, and he couldn't help but shake his head and laugh at himself: I really don't have the potential to be a leader, the pattern is too small and my vision is too narrow!

However, he did not take into account that veteran Zhang Yi was the deputy head of the navy, and he was just a small lieutenant colonel and deputy regiment, and there was no comparison between their patterns and visions.

Recruit Fei, then Recruit Fei!

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