At the end of February 2003, the spring was bright, packed his bags, and returned to Zhangzhou again, where he had adapted to the environment when he had just graduated, and now he came back, no longer a cadet led by veterans, but a company commander who led them.

There are two reasons why he was assigned to serve as acting company commander this time, one is because the original company commander made some mistakes and was removed from the regimental headquarters, and after being promoted from the company commander when we were adapting to the environment, there have been two company commanders, both of whom were removed because of mistakes.

Another reason is that since the low nest shop, there is a live-fire target task every year, and this year it is set at the Changli shooting range in Hebei, where the time is tight and the task is heavy.

And my self-evaluation is also competent, I have experience as a soldier, I served as a trainee company commander in the academy, led the weapon to pull many times, a set of procedures are very familiar, how to organize training, and I am even more proficient, I was assigned by the regiment headquarters to organize a battalion of airport training, this situation has never appeared.

The cadets who graduated from the old unit at the same time, some of whom have been promoted to company commanders, have also received orders to go to Changli with us to shoot targets.

Knowing that I was familiar with a set of procedures, I called him in particular, hoping to give him some information, more than a dozen plans, all of which I carefully sorted out, cherished the feelings of my classmates, and transferred them to him through the vacation personnel of his company.

When the platoon commander was a platoon commander, he participated in the stationed training, put forward the correct calculation method, participated in the live ammunition target shooting, and achieved the first shot down result, which included my efforts and efforts, the trip to the low nest shop, and the outstanding results of the whole battalion, which were inseparable from the airport training I organized.

According to the notice, I had to report to the regimental headquarters first, and after being interviewed in the chief of staff's office, he led me to the fifth company to take up my post.

There are not many words, but the memory is still fresh, with a characteristic pouty smile, "Those classmates of yours have not been promoted yet, you are the earliest one, you should cherish the opportunity." ”

In the conference room of the company headquarters, the battalion commander and all the cadres of the company sat together, and the chief of staff made a brief speech to announce the decision of the regiment headquarters.

Such a determination is obviously not very reliable, and from the expressions of the battalion commander and the chief of staff, it seems that there is a slight disappointment.

The chief of staff and the battalion commander left one after another, leaving me to settle down and pack up, remembering the reminder in the chief of staff's conversation, and preparing to take up a new post, fulfill a new mission, make new efforts, and achieve new results.

There are familiar faces in the company, there are also new faces, fellow villagers are still in the five years, serving as deputy instructors, the secretary general has just been transferred, a few days earlier than me, is the secretary of the first company when he was the platoon commander, sharp and thin face, small, originally from Hunan.

The instructor is a military student, graduated a few years before me, two dismissed company commanders, he has experienced, long face, thin and tall, his hometown is in the countryside of Jiangxi, he has been looking for a partner in the station, married and started a family.

The squad leader who took us to adapt to the environment is still there, transferred to the second non-commissioned officer, served as the squad leader of an artillery squad, and was a little embarrassed to see me, the military quality is good, I belong to the category that can endure hardships in particular, I am responsible for my work, and I have a strong sense of obedience.

Just when preparing to do a big job, the "SARS" outbreak spread across the country, in fact, as early as November last year, it appeared in Guangzhou, not taken seriously, after a Spring Festival, with the return of migrant workers to their hometowns, infected all over the country, and finally showed an outbreak.

The roads are blocked, the villages are closed, the cities are forbidden, Zhangzhou is like this, the whole country is like this, and there is also news from the hometown, the villagers spontaneously organized, set up checkpoints, and cut off the entry and exit, as if a people's war was launched, and all the people were soldiers.

The troops were also closed, and the regimental headquarters had a tradition of arranging for the head of duty to inspect the posts of the various companies every day, which had to be carried out at night, and now it was also forced to be canceled.

Strict management, regular order, corrected a lot of bad habits, some companies, cadres get together at night to rub mahjong, once found by the political commissar to check the post, it is said that a platoon commander is watching from the sidelines, the vigilance is very high, found in time, smart hiding behind the door, escaped.

The political commissar is known for his strict management, and a few years before we were assigned to Zhangzhou, and it was also after he took office that a series of regulations were issued and a series of measures were implemented, which completely changed the appearance of the troops.

What impressed me the most was the "three stresses" education campaign in 2000, which was taken as an opportunity to grasp the troops in a big way, and I did not know how many copies of my study notes, and I had to have my experience and experience in each study article.

He has two major practices, which left a deep impression on me, one is to check the post at night, never say hello, almost touch the sentry in the war years, see if the sentry is in place, whether it is vigilant, it is said that there is a veteran, because he did not answer the password, pull the bolt, he wants to shoot, he is not criticized, but praised.

The other is the use of cadres, where a large number of posts are vacant, and either another chief officer is in charge, or someone is appointed to serve concurrently or as an agent, or he has not given an order to take up his post for a long time, saying that he would rather have a shortage than an abundance, and would rather have a post or wait for someone.

There are advantages and disadvantages to breaking the tradition of seniority and other posts, and many people are honest and hard-working, but it also consumes time, and no appointment cannot be regarded as having service experience, and the army is advocating youthfulness, and many people may be overage and their future will be hindered.

In the second year of his tenure as a platoon commander, he was promoted to a division as director of the political department.

In March, there was a major reshuffle of cadres, with the chief of staff taking over as the regiment commander, the battalion commander of the seventh company serving as the chief of staff, and other cadres also undergoing a major reshuffle.

Our group of graduating classmates, except for me, did not move. And my appointment has not been made, I have not cared about it, I have not deliberately fought for it, and I still faithfully perform my duties.

The epidemic does not affect the training, it is still necessary to prepare for target shooting, and during the target shooting period, the regiment headquarters will also hold a military parade, military training and queue training are valued at the same time, politics is in charge, training is the center, and everything revolves around pulling and fighting.

When I first arrived at the company, as long as there were some empty spaces in the position, they were all opened up into vegetable fields, that is, places that could not be opened, and a pit was dug and pumpkins planted.

In fact, I have always had a different opinion on tidying up the vegetable patch, thinking that the requirements are too harsh, and the army is fighting a war, and it is not appropriate to spend a lot of energy and time in this regard.

As a practical work that gives play to the glorious tradition of self-reliance and arduous struggle, it has been valued by the superiors, who inspect the troops, and the vegetable fields are often an important part of it.

I once heard a joke that the chief inspected the troops, saw a flock of sheep on the hillside in the distance, and was very happy to hear that it was the company that raised it, and praised it very happily, but soon after he left, the sheep stood up one by one, and it turned out that the soldiers of the company were disguised.

Perhaps this has something to do with the senior leaders of the army at that time, most of them experienced the war years, lack of materials, limited security, a vegetable field, can indeed improve the food, the years have not worn away their memories, born in sorrow and died in peace, the past suffering, in some ways become perseverance.

It's just that the years have been different, now the funds are sufficient, not only to eat enough, but also to eat well, and it is particularly good, through the vegetable field to improve the effect of food is not obvious, planting vegetables is not a warrior's specialty, not only to tidy up, but also to fertilize and spray, it took time, paid energy, some vegetables do not grow well, it is difficult to have a harvest, some vegetables are too much, can not be sold, rotten in the ground.

The reason why it is called a position is that it can enter a combat state at any time, which is conducive to combat readiness and convenient training, and is a requirement for the construction of a position.

At my insistence, the potholes in the vegetable fields on the positions were filled in, and the instructor thought that there were too many changes, and there were some different opinions, perhaps I understood this way, and the regimental military commander also had it, but it was missing a proposal or drive, and shortly thereafter, the vegetable fields on the positions of each company were filled in, leaving only vegetable fields in other places.

What the Fifth Company left behind was a piece in front of the barracks, which was cultivated all the year round, and the area was not small, maybe two or three acres, which was enough for the soldiers to work and carry forward the tradition.

I have the experience of a soldier, I think that soaking in the position all day is not necessarily efficient, and I think that physical fitness is the foundation, and strong physical fitness can have sufficient physical strength and abundant energy, which has a great role in improving training efficiency and playing a stable operation skill in battle.

Under the idea of reducing the vegetable field and saving a lot of time, I have my own thinking about how to organize training, so I boldly made adjustments, morning exercises as usual, single-day queues, double-day physical fitness, military training in the morning, physical training in the afternoon, in order to ensure that the military parade can have results, and in the evening it is used to strengthen queue training.

Physical training pays attention to proactive, all rely on supervision, it is difficult to have results, so he put forward the idea, listing the five kilometers of long-distance running, field training, football, basketball four major content, four rows in turn, self-organization, just four days, Friday for each row to compete against the game.

The field training content is the most, including single parallel bars, push-ups, sit-ups, squats, frog jumps, etc., listed one by one, one by one, training one by one, five kilometers is running around the company, the barracks are rebuilt, and the combat readiness road is built into a ring, which is just used for running.

Relatively speaking, football and basketball are the most popular, there are no constraints, just running and fighting, there is an entertainment component, as a physical training content, whether it will be or not, regardless of whether it is strong or weak, all participate, lead by example, I am assigned to the command platoon to participate in the whole process.

Soon after the SARS epidemic ended, Yingtan's cousin, whose child graduated from junior high school, was sent to live with me for a week, accompanied by his colleague's child.

As the target shooting time approached, the schedule gradually became tight, the physical training was canceled, and a large number of them were used to organize military training, remove the columns, simulate drills, carry out during the day, and often have them at night, familiar with the process, familiar with the procedures, skilled skills, and the tense atmosphere before the actual combat filled the barracks.

A small amount of time is used to organize queue training, determine personnel, determine platoons, form platoons, and conduct military parades in columns.

After the 99th National Military Parade, the military music and drums became soothing, and when training, it was played in a loop, stimulating the senses, and the sense of rhythm was imprinted into the mind, ensuring that it was always accurate and always stepped on to death.

After the epidemic ended, the control was lifted, and the head of the regiment headquarters resumed the daily inspection system, and once the director of the political department went to the company to inspect the work, it happened that the drainage ditch was being built, and the drainage next to the kitchen was not smooth, and the smell was emitted, so it was taken seriously, and before the summer came, he thought about digging it up again and building it with cement bricks to completely solve it.

Didn't invite a mason, bought cement, collected the discarded bricks in the next village, did it himself, the soldiers wouldn't, he did it himself, the director of the political department arrived, received a notice from the sentry, and the last few pieces, hurriedly built them, and arrived in a hurry.

In the conference room of the company, the instructor was sitting with the director of the political department, waiting for a long time, and did not quite agree with my behavior of building a ditch, but thought that I was putting on a show in front of him and was trained to behave blindly.

When he was about to leave for the shooting range, his superiors informed him by phone that because of the epidemic, this year's target shooting mission had been canceled, and the efforts that had lasted for more than half a year had come to an end for the time being, and the tense atmosphere over the barracks had been alleviated a lot.

At this time, a letter came from home, hoping to go home and confirm the marriage, but he did not return for two years, he was really homesick, canceled the target shooting mission, and allowed to visit relatives on leave, and the company commander wanted to ask for leave from the regiment headquarters, and the report was submitted.

When I returned to the company after a month's vacation, I was surprised to find that an undergraduate student who had graduated at the same time was also in the company, and the instructor informed me that the regimental headquarters had issued an order to appoint this undergraduate student as the company commander.

The sense of loss is sudden, not because of the position, not because of the hard work in vain, but because the dream can no longer be realized, from the enlistment to the present, every time I participate in target shooting, I see other people as company commanders, press the electric shock and twist, and direct the artillery fire of the whole company.

This is a dream, formed a long time ago, lead a company, participate in a live ammunition target shooting, press the electric shock to press the twist, enjoy the rumbling cannon roar in the ears, there is no war in peacetime, only at this time, can we experience the smoke, can we experience the extraordinary.

Sometimes I talked with my colleagues, and I once mentioned that even if I led the company to change jobs after hitting a target, I was willing, because I had no regrets in my military career.

There is also a regret, it was a military parade, and they all participated in the team before, so it was possible to become the commander of the team, meet the eyes of the chief, complete the three-step salute, report the results of leading the troops, experience the peak passion, and express the ambition to serve the country.

There were also reasons, and at the same time, it was conveyed that the appointment to report to the military department, because of his age, because he was the commander of the combat company, was not approved. Such a reason is equivalent to a sentence that he can no longer serve as the commander of a combat company.

The first one was promoted, and he was once envied by everyone, and once he went to the regiment headquarters to participate in a military meeting, the former company commander was still the company commander, and at this time he sat with them, and there was cordial communication and enthusiastic conversation.

Now he is ridiculed, some of the radical behaviors in the past have been rumored to be too arrogant, and the leader's evaluation appeared at this time, "He doesn't pay attention to ordinary people", and colleagues have also discussed before, "This person is usually too high-minded."