Chapter Eighty-Seven: Dedication to Your Own Job
When the time came to June, he led the instrument platoon to participate in the airport training organized by the regiment headquarters, and only the six companies of Zhangzhou Pian participated, and the battalion in Fuzhou, like the old troops, organized the training at the local airport alone.
The six platoon commanders of the instrument are different, some are former classmates, some graduated a year earlier than us, whether they are undergraduates or army students, it can be seen at a glance from the military ranks, each has its own characteristics, each has its own strengths.
The leader of the regiment headquarters is the chief of staff, a high-achieving student majoring in mathematics from Xiamen University, who has a very deep foundation in shooting and ballistics.
During the training period, the chief of staff lived with us and rarely left, and the two battalions also arranged for the combat staff officers to lead the team, and they ate and lived together.
Every night, I always want to go to the chief of staff's room to sit down, the difference in positions is too great, the level difference is too far, there is a strong inferiority, stage fright appears again, afraid of being turned away, afraid of being ridiculed, and finally did not take this step.
The instrument platoon commander of the third company, who graduated a year before us, is also a soldier in the instrument class like me, and has the same rich operating experience, and the instrument platoon commander of the fourth company is an undergraduate who graduated at the same time, perhaps influenced by the chief of staff, and has also studied the theory deeply.
In addition to training and teaching, the soldier has two books in his hand, one is the theory of weapons and the other is the theory of operation, and the content is exactly the same as when I was a soldier. The training is organized by us, and the teaching is also carried out by us.
Platoon commanders compare their abilities and ranks, and between companies and battalions and battalions compete for honors.
The training time is only one month, the training and teaching, the arrangement is very tight, near the end, the theoretical operation, and various assessments are carried out intensively.
The soldiers of this platoon performed well, and the theoretical results came out, and they were all in the forefront, and I was happy to see it, and the staff officers leading the battalion headquarters were also happy to see it.
The problem lies in the operational assessment, after the examination of each company to calculate the results, among them, I and the old platoon commander of the third company know more clearly how to calculate, in front of the results, at a glance, we can know which method can get a high score, which method will reduce the score.
At this time, he used the method of my old army, ignoring systematic errors, expanding occasional errors, and the results were not surprising, the instrument class in his platoon achieved high scores, such an algorithm, in fact, my platoon also achieved good results.
But the regret of the army made me less rational at this time, and the chief of staff sat aside, and I questioned this method of calculation, believing that there were drawbacks and might make the training of the hand test a habitual action.
The chief of staff was persuaded that the staff officers led by the battalion headquarters might want to fly when they saw that their results might fly, and they resolutely opposed it, and even reprimanded me.
As a result, the score of the third company was greatly reduced, and the ranking was lost, so our company ranked first, but the overall performance of the whole battalion was affected, and the angry battalion staff officer immediately reported to the battalion commander and was reprimanded by the battalion commander.
The battalion commander is a soldier, and the aura of the veteran is particularly strong, so he scolded me on the phone, and then went to the company to check, and reprimanded him in person, and hung a soldier, I don't know how many times it appeared in his mouth.
Although the chief of staff adopted the calculation method I proposed, the results of the battalion headquarters were damaged because of this, and the collective honor was disregarded, and it may have left a bad impression on him.
Full of enthusiasm, but also pay attention to how to sway, gains and losses are often between words and deeds, progress may also be in other people's words, or the first impression, or not left.
Soon after the end of the training, he rushed to the shooting range, and the place where the live ammunition was fired was the same as that of the old troops, which was the shooting range in Shanghai. The time also coincided, and the brigades of the old units and the current regiments opened positions together and fired live ammunition together.
The identity of the cadre, the command and training, the inspection of the results, there is no movement, there is no contact, the former old leaders, classmates of the academy, not fellow villagers, the feelings are weakened, it is difficult to mention the interest of visiting.
is no longer a fighter, does not personally experience the operation process, and does not have that passion and joy, only knows that the results are good, and shoots down a towing target.
The road is far away, it is no longer a simple motorized march, after the weapons are pulled to the Zhangzhou Railway Station, they are loaded onto the train, and the railway transports them to and back.
At the end of the year, there was a quota for meritorious service among cadres, and the company commander had just taken up his post, and the instructor resigned, and only me and the classmates who graduated at the same time, two of whom were suitable candidates.
Although he was awarded a third-class meritorious service, the sense of gap with this classmate became more and more obvious, not only because of his excellent writing ability, such a strong point has attracted the attention of the regiment leader, and the one in the second company is even more absolute, and the battalion headquarters asked him to write a summary again, and said directly to the comer, I will dictate your record.
Once, when the two of them were pondering a manuscript and asking for advice with an open mind, the classmate of this company seemed to be a little mocking when he listened to my question, and he said with a smile that the idea and framework they value now are no longer distracted by the choice of words and sentences.
It turns out that I am still in the stage of choosing words and sentences, and the higher level is the idea and framework of the article, three years of military school, deliberately making up for it, in fact, behind closed doors, feeling good about myself, and not making progress in essence.
This makes me quite embarrassed, so I am more willing to get close to them, listen to lectures in class, learn in the library, not as realistic, see the gap, recognize the shortcomings, a large copy of the world's articles, and then as long as the regiment headquarters issues documents, even the battalion regiment of various summaries, read carefully, I want to find a clear way from it, improve my writing ability and expression ability.
The cousin who graduated from the police academy in Yiyang has a very good habit of reciting or reading aloud every morning when he gets up early, just to improve his expression skills, and I feel deeply at this time.
The company concentrated on accommodation, similar to the cousin's practice seems too ostentatious, can not recite and read aloud, just recite silently in the heart, every day before going to bed to find a good article, or think of a topic, recite or conceive in the bottom of the heart, and fall asleep.
The military reform of the troops began to emerge, first of all, the salary adjustment at the beginning of the year, and the remuneration of both soldiers and cadres was greatly improved, and then the construction of barracks, in numerical order, one company after another was rebuilt.
The speed of investment was very fast, and soon brand new barracks were erected, some companies were two-storey, some companies were three-storey, according to the terrain, according to the original layout, each was different, and the automobile company was arranged with the battalion headquarters, which was more conducive to combat readiness.
The cultural life of the company has been greatly improved, the TV video is played, the billiards of the club are placed, the basketball court is rebuilt, only the football field has not changed, it is still a narrow field in the center of the position, and the two simple goals attract the company's football lovers during the gallop.
My classmate, who graduated at the same time, seemed to be all-round, born with literary and artistic cells, the company organized a party, and sang a song "Pacific" with passion, and I was rushed to the stage by everyone and sang a children's song to pass away.
He was the most active on the football field, divided into two groups at a time, and met him in the confrontation, the two calves touched, it felt like hitting a stone, and the pain pierced his heart, and he didn't seem to feel it at all.
Only the blue ball may be better than him, but he is taller than me and has a natural advantage, and the soldiers in the platoon said that he couldn't stop me, but for him, he couldn't stop it.
I have to say that some things are innate, such as physical fitness, such as IQ and emotional intelligence, for me, this platoon commander, who graduated at the same time, seems to be suppressed everywhere, although I have experience as a soldier, I am familiar with army life, I know how to get along with veterans, but it is clear that the fighters prefer to be close to him.
The gap is in such a comparison, increasing day by day, maybe I also have some strengths, recognized by this classmate, of course, there are only two platoon commanders in the company, and the relationship between the two is getting closer and closer.
The company is located in a remote area, life is monotonous, no one can relieve loneliness, only between us, it seems that we can talk and communicate freely, two or three hundred meters away from the village, has become a place where the two of us often go, often after the company lights out, quietly sneak out, in the village shop, to order some beer, to go to some retail as a side dish, can eat until midnight to return.
The company commander can always find that both of them are the backbone of the business, and after discovering it, there is often a "go to drink again", and then leave as if nothing happened.
At the end of the year, the recruits enlisted in the army, and once again served as a platoon commander in the recruit company, and got together with other company classmates, among them, the person who was particularly able to write, said that he had saved nearly 20,000, and he was shocked that he usually drank and didn't realize that our savings were only a few thousand.
There are too many differences between the recruit company and previous years, first of all, the location has been changed, the battalion headquarters has been rebuilt, the automobile company has been moved to the battalion headquarters, the old automobile company has been abolished, the recruit company is also located here, and the old barracks have been rationally used to become the dormitory of the recruit company.
This year, there are a lot of newly assigned platoon commanders, such as the instrument platoon where I am located, and two cadets are assigned at the same time, which highlights the importance of the front line in the Taiwan Strait and the current tense situation.
The reform of the non-commissioned officer system was successfully completed, although many soldiers were unwilling to stay in the unit, and the higher authorities ordered that party members and squad leaders must obey, plus some soldiers who had enlisted in the army in poor areas voluntarily stayed in the team, and the non-commissioned officer quota of each company was fully completed.
The soldier who made the greatest contribution should be the 98-year soldier, who could have been retired in the last year, because of the reform of the non-commissioned officer system, he had to stay for another two years, and the 97-year soldier was facing discharge, and the first period was three years, plus two years of compulsory service, and he could go home if he stayed in office for one year, and in one year, the departure allowance changed from less than 2,000 yuan to nearly 20,000 yuan.
I was once again assigned to the recruit company as a platoon commander, and there were some changes in other companies, such as the second company, where the first year of the platoon commander was replaced by an undergraduate who graduated at the same time, that is, the student who was particularly good at writing.
Zhangzhou has entered the fast lane of economic development in recent years, almost one day at a time, the people have money, mobile phones have entered ordinary families, we have all bought mobile phones, no one is easy to contact, in fact, just as to follow the trend.
The telephone bill is not cheap, even if you don't call, you have to pay 50 yuan landline every month, the hometown is relatively backward, the mobile phone is still a high-end consumable, the home is generally a fixed phone, when training, the clothes rub, a little careless, the mobile phone will be pulled out, there is only a fixed phone at home, so it often rings, the father received, feed a few sounds, no echo, listen to a conversation on our training ground.
During the period of the recruit company, this student, who was particularly able to write, showed his unique wisdom and foresight, and judged several students one by one, and the evaluation of the soldiers was not high, saying that I could be a company commander at most, and another student could only be a staff officer of the battalion headquarters, while he himself could go to the main camp.
I don't know what he is based on, maybe he writes well, has been affirmed by the battalion commander, has some fluttering, or maybe he has a deep understanding of the requirements for the youthfulness and quality of the troops.
Later, it turned out that his judgment was surprisingly accurate, and I was transferred to the position of the main company, which was even worse than his judgment, and I only served as the acting company commander for less than a year, and I was transferred to the position of staff officer of the battalion headquarters of another unit, and he did get mixed up in the main battalion.
Although we scoffed at his arguments at the time, it was a foregone conclusion that the army at that time admired young people and high education, and the military students had natural defects in this regard, and they could not make up for their old age and low education.
The recruit company ended, asked for family leave for the first time, was approved, went home with a mobile phone, and really showed off for a while, it is a high consumption, and the hometown has not yet been popularized, and even the young teachers in the school who are good at chasing the new trend have not been bought.
My family and relatives and friends began to arrange for my marriage, and introduced a lot of people, Yingtan's cousin was the most active, and when I passed by, he took it to the home of one of his colleagues, and the driver of the train, who was not young, was of marriage age, and prepared a table of sumptuous meals.
With this girl of marriageable age, I came into contact alone, and learned that she was also working on the railway, and I was arrogant, and after contact, I felt that my education level was too low, there was no common language, and my feelings were nipped in the bud.
In fact, not only for this reason, but also because of the stimulus, the undergraduate who graduated in the same year in the same company often met with the company commander and even the battalion and regiment cadres to introduce him to the object, but none of them introduced him to me.
The people he introduced to him were all good, teachers and unit staff, this is the most ordinary, once I heard that the introduction was about a TV host in Xiamen, and another time I heard that the introduction was the daughter of a director of the logistics department of the South Air Force.
At this time, the sense of gap widens again, which is a real gap that cannot be bridged, from which it can be seen that the leader's concern and value, it seems to indicate that compared with him, he has lost at the starting line.
This year, there was no target shooting mission, but the stationed training was still carried out as scheduled, this time at the location of the fourth company, and the leader of the training was the old company commander who was transferred to the head of the combat training unit.
The chief of staff did not show up, but went to the National Defense University to participate in training, and a deputy regimental cadre could have this honor, which was a good story for a while, and was talked about by everyone.
It is the season, the mango lychee laurel garden is ripe, hanging high branches, when returning to the company, the military truck pulls weapons, the weather is hot, the roof tarpaulin is removed, the steel pipe supporting the tarpaulin, bent into a semicircle, inserted into the roof of the car, just as a handrail.
As the leader of the platoon, I also stood in the carriage, a touching scene appeared, discipline and restraint, style development, truck through, fruit trees on both sides of the road, branches can reach into the carriage, ripe fruits dotted all the way, reachable, regardless of recruits and veterans, standing in order, no one stretched out their hands.
Sometimes, the fruit passes by, bends the side, and the troops talk about the deep affection between the army and the people, and the three major disciplines and eight points of attention are composed into a song that has become one of the many army songs, "Do not take a stitch from the masses." Even in the new century, we still keep in mind and strictly abide by it; in such a mood, the song of the three major disciplines and eight points of attention floated from the carriage.
There was no target task, so the regiment headquarters decided to organize a military parade, which became the highlight of judging the results of the year's training, and the battalion and company attached great importance to it.
The battalion headquarters specially organized collective training, and for a period of time often gathered in the air nest near the airport, and specially built bunkers to hide combat-ready aircraft, and there were wide cement fields and cement passages in front of them to ensure the smooth turning and passage of fighters.
According to the usual practice, the military parade time is set on the National Day, the weather is hot, the temperature of the cement floor is higher, the same requirements as the soldiers, and it is the first row, I feel that the training is particularly hard, and every time I go on the field, I am looking forward to ending it early.
In order to test the results of the training and the need for rehearsals, he replaced the regiment commander and simulated the process of military parade, shouting "Hello comrades" and "Comrades have worked hard".
Once, I don't know if it was because I was particularly nervous or because I was very relaxed, when I walked in front of our company, I shouted "serve the people", there was silence for a while, the square team did not know how to answer, the scene was embarrassing, the battalion commander looked particularly embarrassed, and for a long time, it became a joke after intense training.