Chapter 2 My Company Commander
There was no need to wait until the next day, and by the evening of the same day, everyone knew the specific situation of the company commander's mission, and not only our company, but all the companies of the whole regiment knew about it. Because in the evening all training in our regiment was stopped, and an emergency meeting of the whole regiment was held.
At the time of the meeting, our company was preparing to take weapons and organize night shooting drills in the evening. No sooner had I changed into my combat attire than I heard the watchman whistle in the hallway telling all personnel to bring military notebooks to the classroom to assemble for a meeting with their superiors.
"Holy! Another meeting?! Open during the day and open at night, this week's shooting training was canceled because of the meeting. This is on again! I've taken it all, how can there be so many! I grumbled as I took off my freshly dressed combat attire. This is the fourth meeting of the week, and almost every meeting is training time.
One thing I have never understood since I joined the army is why there are so many meetings and what is the use of our officers and men at the grassroots level participating in these meetings. It's better to go out and practice to be exhausted and comfortable, although I like to be lazy and like to mix, but I still prefer training to meetings, at least when training, I feel like I'm still in the army. I remember that at the end of last year's summary, the communication department of the regiment summarized the work of the whole year, one of which was to ensure that the whole regiment held 287 video conferences throughout the year. At the time, I laughed. Is this a grade? It is so natural that 365 days a year, there are 287 meetings, an average of 0.78 times a day, excluding holidays and weekends, that is almost once a day. What I can't understand the most is that at meetings at all levels, we must bring grassroots companies and a piece of work, from the military region to the provincial military district, to the military sub-district, and finally to the regiment, all levels must emphasize it, and all levels must put forward some requirements.
As soon as my words fell, Chen Li made a joke, saying: "Platoon commander, I estimate that the officers and men of the whole regiment are saying the same thing as you say now. ”
"I guess everyone in the regiment thinks so in their hearts, except for the leader, of course." I said as I walked out with my notebook in my hand. This was heard by Yang Tian, the second platoon commander who passed by, and he continued my words and said to me: "Xiaofei, I don't think the leader wants to take up everyone's time for training, but the content of the meeting is more important, and the leader has no choice but to take up the training time for the meeting." "Yang Tian is a platoon commander who graduated from the same class as me, and we have been in a company for two years, and we have a very good relationship, and we often get together to smoke, chat and play games, that is, he has been calling me "bastard". Yang Tian's family is relatively rich, the mobile phones are all Apple, the watches are all Rolex, the cigarettes are all Yuxi, and they are also very depressed after coming to the army. Actually, all along, I felt that he could mix better than me, but he called me a "bastard".
Listening to his righteous and awe-inspiring words, I said teasingly: "You are very right, the leader is also very helpless, this is not something that our small platoon commander can understand, a position has a position, we should be considerate of the leader." Actually, it's not bad to have frequent meetings, how good it is to not have to go out to train, or go out for night training now, the dew is heavy, there are many mosquitoes, and every night training is bitten all over the body, and the clothes are wet, and it is uncomfortable to die. ”
Yang Tian smiled and said, "Yes, how good it is to have a meeting." I like to have meetings, I don't have to do anything, I close my eyes and squint for a while when I'm sleepy, and I hold meetings during the day without being exposed to the sun, and I have meetings at night without being bitten. "Here I want to talk about the mosquitoes in the northeast frontier, with a phrase often said by veterans to describe it is "four mosquitoes a dish", that is really big, I have never seen such a big mosquito since I was a child, such a fierce mosquito. When I first graduated and joined the company, the first time I saw mosquitoes, I smiled and said that big mosquitoes are all male mosquitoes, and male mosquitoes don't bite. After saying that, I regretted it, I just wanted to go back and ask my mother, who told me that the big mosquitoes are all male mosquitoes, and the mosquitoes here are about to catch up with the flies, so they really bite, breathe in the face, bite through clothes, and even bite through shoes. In my first year of graduation, I was bitten. The next year, I bought a bunch of toilet water mosquito repellent, but it still didn't work. Now in its third year, I'm already getting used to it.
As we spoke, we went to the classroom, sat down in our seats, and waited quietly for the meeting to begin. I watched the main venue on TV, and my thoughts raced. For a while, I wondered how important the meeting would be to wait for a while, and I had to use the training time to notify me so urgently. After a while, I wondered whether the use of the conference system would facilitate the development of troop building and promote the enhancement of the troop's combat effectiveness, or whether it would be convenient for leaders to organize meetings. After a while, I thought about training again, and now it is the critical stage of live-fire training, and the training time is not enough, and the shooting pre-practice is not solid and not in place, so how can I shoot live-ammunition. After a while, I thought to myself again, what do I want to do so much, a small platoon commander, can't decide anything, just follow what the superiors arrange, let the training go to training, let the meeting sit and hold a meeting, the company commander will think about the training, the company commander must have a plan. When I thought of the company commander, I suddenly remembered what happened during the day, could it be that the content of the meeting was related to the situation of the company commander performing his mission? It is ironic that it will not be dealt with so quickly, it just happened during the day, and it was dealt with before the investigation was launched, and it was rare to be efficient once, but it was a person who dealt with it, and it would be good to study the training or the welfare of officers and soldiers so quickly. I was thinking about it again.
I like to think wildly, often sitting there in a daze, fantasizing about how hard I work, what opportunities I encounter, and what I will achieve in the future. Sometimes, I can even fantasize about my life, many different experiences of life, sometimes I became a general in the development of the army, sometimes I changed jobs and returned to the local development and finally became a provincial and ministerial-level leader or even higher, sometimes I went to the sea to do business and became the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and sometimes I went to act and won the Oscar, but every time I woke up, I was still the same me, I was useless.
I'm still thinking about it, the meeting has begun.
The meeting was presided over by the chief of staff of the regiment, and the chief of staff looked up at the big screen, which displayed the pictures of all the companies of the regiment, which was very clear, and this was the high-definition camera that had just been installed in the regiment this year. The pictures taken by the previous cameras were not too clear, and the regiment commanders could not see the faces of the officers and soldiers of each company clearly, and sometimes the officers and soldiers slept and dozed off, and the leaders could not see clearly, so they invested more than 100,000 yuan to update the cameras of the whole regiment conference system, and all of them were replaced with high-definition cameras. Regarding this move, our company commander told us at the time that the whole regiment has hundreds of kilometers of border, and there is not a single camera, but there is such a good equipment to monitor our own people, which is really blind! Of course, it is useless for the company commander to say this, and we are not leaders and cannot make decisions. At that time, I thought, if I were the head of the regiment, I would definitely install all the cameras in the classroom on the border line, so that we could detect any disturbances on the border line in time.
After the chief of staff saw that all the companies had arrived, he then looked down at the manuscript in his hand and said: "Comrades, according to the instructions of the regiment commander and political commissar, the whole regiment will hold an emergency meeting this evening, which mainly has six main contents. ”
Hearing this, my heart was cold, six contents, two hours can't stop it!
As expected, the content of the meeting was to report on the situation of our company commander leading the team to carry out the mission. Of course, the focus of the meeting was on the instructions of the leadership on the situation. A total of six leaders spoke, each leader spoke a lot of content, on average each leader spoke for half an hour, the whole meeting nearly three hours, finally, I summed up, the meaning of the meeting is just one, our company commander did not act in accordance with the instructions of the superiors, and fired at will, resulting in one death and one wound, making the work of the superiors very passive, causing an extremely bad social impact, requiring other companies to take this as a warning and resolutely carry out the orders and instructions of the superiors.
The meeting was held from half past six in the evening to half past nine in the evening, and if it weren't for the fact that the deputy head of the regiment became more and more excited, and finally put down the manuscript and played it personally, he spoke for more than an hour, leaving not much time for the leaders behind him, otherwise the head of the regiment would definitely not be able to speak for only 20 minutes, and the political commissar would not have been able to simply talk about the main points in the end, and it would have taken only 15 minutes to unfold it.
Looking at the leaders are still unfinished, I feel sorry in my heart, this meeting was held very unsuccessfully, the leaders did not speak to the end, the leaders must still have a stomach to say, it seems that they can only wait until the next meeting to speak, the next meeting is estimated to not be too long, either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, because the leaders can't hold back the words in their hearts, I have some bad taste speculation.
I was thinking about it when I was startled by a loud bang and my heart was trembling. I followed the voice and looked over, only to see the company commander slap the case, "Fuck, a bunch of fools!" With an angry curse, the company commander left.
Looking at the back of the company commander, my heart was full of admiration and admiration. This is the person who has had the most profound impact on me since I came to the army, and it can even be said that it has influenced my entire military career.
I have been in the company for two years since graduation, I have always regarded the company commander as an idol, our company commander is called Sun Zhenwu, a northerner, with the characteristics of a northerner, straightforward, crisp, decisive, neat, this is the most envious of my admiration, because I think I myself is particularly indecisive, not good at doing things, so when I came to the company for the first time to see the company commander, I saw the company commander speaking and doing things boldly, I regarded the company commander as an idol and a model to learn.
Our company's training results have always ranked in the forefront of the whole regiment, and last year's two assessments ranked first in the whole regiment, and it can be said that the results are mainly due to Company Commander Sun's meticulous training. But Company Commander Sun also has his own problems, that is, he has a bad temper and is unwilling to cater to the leader, let alone flattery and slippery, and he doesn't say polite words when he sees the leader. Moreover, there is another point, all the things that are false and void are not used to Company Commander Sun, but on the contrary, there are more and more things in the army now, so every time he organizes a major event, holds a meeting or meets the investigation and inspection, Company Commander Sun will always lose his temper, and then lead the officers and men of the whole company to practice fiercely, saying that it is to make up for the training time delayed by other chaotic activities. Therefore, the officers and men of our company are also particularly afraid of holding meetings and other activities, because after these meetings, the company commander will definitely increase the intensity of training several times.