Arrived in Guilin, the railway station has a car sent by the college to pick us up, budgeted the time, just in these days to report, and also arranged a vehicle to pick up, set up a point outside the station, parked with the same military truck when he first arrived in the army, there is no lively and welcome when he was a soldier, get on the car and go directly to the cadet team to complete the report.

After registration, I settled my luggage, my name was registered, registered according to my name, and assigned to each class, I was in the first class, and my fellow villagers were in the fifth class, and I found that in addition to the army students, ten local college students were recruited, and they entered the school at the same time as us, and they were six or seven years younger than us.

When we first arrived, there was a saying that we, the junior college students, who were mainly military students, were the first company of trainees, and there were also a group of undergraduates who arrived a year earlier than us, and they were directly admitted to local high schools, and the undergraduates were the second company of trainees.

A probationary company is equivalent to a class in a local school, and the teaching content is the same, but because it is a military school, it brings the characteristics of the troops, and it is called a probationary company, simulating the formation of a combat company, setting up a company commander, instructor, and deputy company commander, and setting up a district team is equivalent to a platoon, and below the district team is the squad.

A probationary company with two district teams, a district team with three classes, when we arrived at the school, just graduated a group of army students, it is said that when the undergraduates first entered the school, they were treated as recruits, and now we are here, we, the new students, in their eyes, are treated as recruits.

We just arrived, and were called recruits by the old cadets, who were generally two or three years younger than us, and who actually joined the army later than us, although they were a little awkward and a little unconvinced, and they could only obey their management in the first month.

College students are awarded the rank of second lieutenant after graduation, and undergraduates are awarded the rank of lieutenant after graduation.

Soon after reporting to the military academy, the cadet team organized a training mobilization, the captain was born in a local area, stayed in school after graduating from the bachelor's degree, and grew all the way until he served as the captain of our cadet team, the instructor was a graduate of the aviation school, a pilot, and the deputy captain was also a local student.

At the mobilization meeting, the leaders of the cadet corps made speeches separately, demanding that we first complete three changes, one is the change from combat readiness to study, the second is the change from soldiers to cadets, and the third is the change from soldiers to quasi-commanders.

He also particularly emphasized that although you have been admitted to the military academy, the first three months belong to the inspection period, and during the inspection period, you will immediately cancel your student qualifications and be repatriated to the original unit if you fail the cultural re-examination and violate the regulations on the management of the academy.

When recruits join the army, they have to complete the transformation of local youths into soldiers, when they leave the company, they have to complete the transformation of recruits into qualified soldiers, and now they have to complete the transformation from soldiers to cadets.

Just like the recruit company back then, the method is similar, for the time being, it does not involve the college curriculum, but only a separate training, called adaptive training, to familiarize yourself with the environment, and understand the college's one-day life system and management regulations.

The content of the training is almost all queues, interspersed with physical fitness, such as running and single parallel bars, for some fighters who have been admitted to the organs, it may feel monotonous and boring, and for a fighter like me, there is no pressure.

The pressure comes from the re-examination of cultural knowledge, and after the adaptation training, the academy will organize a thorough examination of basic cultural knowledge, the purpose of which is to fear that someone will infiltrate the academy through improper means, which shows that the military academy attaches great importance to the quality of cadets.

During the training period, we did not set up company cadres in the first probationary company, but appointed district captains and squad leaders, just arrived at the academy, we were not familiar with the academy, and the leaders of the cadet team were not familiar with us.

The company commander and instructor once told me that if I was admitted to the military academy, I would inevitably join the party, so I would not be considered to join the party and serve as a squad leader, so when I arrived at the military academy, I was just an ordinary soldier, and the only highlight was that I had made a third-class meritorious service.

The identity is ordinary, and I don't have my share in arranging the backbone according to my resume, but it doesn't mean that I don't yearn for it, because soon after I arrived at the academy, I listened to the biography of these new students and served as the backbone of the trainee company, which is equivalent to having an insurance, and if you make a small mistake in the future, you will not be easily returned to the old army.

Once it was returned to the old army, not only did he feel ashamed, but the old army would also regard it as a shame, and the outcome was unimaginable.

The military quality of the soldiers is indeed stronger, and sometimes during the morning exercises, they will train in a queue with these local students, and I can clearly find that they are not nervous when they stand, and they stand sparsely like mud in the words of veterans, while many soldiers can stand upright, like javelins.

During physical training, I also saw that my physical fitness was significantly stronger than theirs, especially the single parallel bars, and I found that not only I could do five exercises, but also many other people could do five exercises, flying up and down, which was really exciting, and the old students were like looking at the eyes of the recruits, and they also changed.

After completing the adaptability training, they won the respect of these slightly immature old cadets, and also gave them the confidence to compete with their classmates for the next three years.

Military school is a dream, is the highest palace of life that I can enter, so this month I worked extra hard, did not dare to slack off, not only want to show a job, become a backbone as soon as possible, the idea of adding insurance to the military school trip, but also the idea of improving quality, striving for maximum growth, and laying a solid foundation for becoming an excellent military commander in the future.

At the end of a month of adaptive training, I successfully passed the cultural mapping exam, how the specific test was, the results were not announced, anyway, I passed it successfully, when I invigilated mathematics, I found the figure of the instructor who picked up the student files in Hangzhou, and smiled with concern when I passed by, but there was no intersection in the future, and he was responsible for teaching other classes.

The idea of becoming a backbone was realized soon after, and the squad leader assigned according to his resume, although he was a fourth-year soldier, was born in an agency, had no management experience, lacked ability, and was not bold enough, so the captain decided to re-select a squad leader.

The method of selection is also simple, during the morning exercise, according to the height of the height, from the head of the platoon to the end of the platoon, one by one came out to command a queue training, I ranked fourth, after the first few people took turns, I went out to command, before the command was finished, the captain pointed to me and said, "It's you, as a squad leader." ”

Thanks to the usual seriousness and meticulousness, maybe the captain has been paying attention to it before, but in this way, everyone is convinced that there is nothing to say, it came so suddenly, I was not prepared, and I was happy for a while, and since then I have started my career as the backbone of the military academy.

In the dormitory, sleeping next to me was a soldier from the Beikong Air Force who had seen more and was more courageous; not long after I became the leader of a squad, he thought that the characteristics of the instructors were stronger and he was more concerned about us, and he encouraged me to visit him at his house.

So on a Saturday evening, the two of us found the instructor's home in the faculty dormitory building, carrying a bottle of liquor, and knocked on the door.

But this kind of enthusiasm, but the two of us will never forget, he left us to have dinner together, the bottle of wine he brought was drunk, he took out another bottle himself, where have we seen this formation, it was broadcast live at his home, and I don't know how to return to the cadet team later.

Later, he didn't dare to visit again, but because of this, he left a deep impression on the instructor, and the comrade-in-arms was so simple and deep, but his later performance may not be so satisfying.

All the cadets of our cadet corps, including the undergraduates who entered the school one year earlier than us, will graduate at the same time after three years, and at the same time they will go to the army, and they are very likely to be in the same brigade, the same regiment, the same battalion, or even the same company, and they are not only classmates but also competitors.

Undergraduates think that they entered the school earlier than us, and they have a high academic background and a high starting rank, so they are full of arrogance in front of us, and the junior college students think that they are excellent soldiers selected by the army, with excellent military quality, a solid foundation in the army, and they are real veterans, and the army is not something that these "dolls" who have not dried up can understand.

After the three-month inspection period, the first semester of the military academy was almost over, perhaps for the need for a more comprehensive understanding, the first probationary company was never established, with only two district captains and six squad leaders.

At the beginning of the second semester, the team cadres finally decided to set up a trainee company, and the two district captains served as the trainee company commander and trainee instructor respectively, while I was promoted from the squad leader to the district captain, the sixth cadet team and the first district team are called the 61 district team, and the others are called the 62, 63, and 64 district teams, the first and second district teams are the trainee first company, and the third and fourth district teams are the second trainee company.

At the beginning of the establishment of the two trainee companies, there was a faint smell of collision, the title of "troop student" and "local student", at this time it was also seen that it was not convinced, no one in the academy was averse to this title, the troop students thought that their title represented the top talents of the army, and the local students believed that their title represented the trend of military modernization, and they all had a sense of self-appreciation.

On the contrary, local students think that "military students" are synonymous with uneducated and coarse people, and military students think that "local students" are synonymous with "naïve" people who do not understand military life and have no plot of soldiers.

However, to be honest, we are still not very satisfied with our identity as "army students", because after all, it is a fact that we lost at the starting line, and it is a fact that we will regret for the rest of our lives and cannot change it.

There is a relative in my hometown, who is six years younger than me, he is a "local student" of the Army Academy, graduated from the military academy a year later than me, and later was assigned to Zhangzhou like me, but he was in the army and I was in the air force, and when we first met, I still had the rank of second lieutenant, but he was already a lieutenant.

Although there are one pass after another to ensure that the troops send outstanding students to military academies, there are still a few soldiers whose cultural and military qualities are unsatisfactory, which is equivalent to pasting gold and mixing up the signboard of cadres, thus reducing the influence of the troops.

The cultural quality displayed by local students often makes us have an invisible sense of encouragement, and the gap is so big that we can only admit it and silently catch up.

Compared with the military students, they have not experienced the strict management of the combat units, and their sense of obedience and discipline is somewhat worse; for example, they often go out without permission, and they often miss group activities without reason; once they are discovered, they will be severely criticized, and sometimes they will be required to conduct a thorough examination at the military conference.

Among them, two or three people made a very deep impression of the inspection, because an inspection was written in a brilliant manner, quoting scriptures, borrowing from the past to metaphor the present, standing crookedly, it seemed that they did not think so, mistakes and understandings were not written much, and their feelings were completely expressed.

I think it may not only be me who feels this way, but other soldiers may also have this feeling, I remember once when we were chatting together, a soldier said that all the "ugliness" should be thrown in the artillery yard and the ability to be brought back to the army.

Can there still be grievances in military schools? This is something that we military students cannot understand, and the inspection of local students is generally not pursued, and it is often not done after reading. They have always emphasized obedience and never dared to question authority, but they dared to challenge authority, which made us veterans of the army very surprised.

In fact, from some words and deeds of local students, it can be seen that they are not sticking to tradition, and their thinking is quite active, such as folding quilts, few quilts can be folded into tofu blocks like our company, loose and undemanding, such as treating food, once there is dissatisfaction, it will be strongly expressed.

There have been several cases of losing jobs on them, but this has never happened to the army students, and the troops are afraid of the cadres and discipline, but this does not mean that they are afraid of them.

The cadet team fixed Saturday night to add food, you can drink beer, sometimes the local students take the opportunity to drop the wine bottle to express their dissatisfaction with the food, the army students are not used to it, and some also drop the wine bottle in response,-for-tat, no one is convinced, and the cockfight stares at each other, and finally the distinction is clear, both sides of the coax, each lifting the beer bottle to drink, showing a victory posture.

The competition between the cadets has run through the beginning and the end, fighting for everything and comparing everything, from the order of going to and from class, the observance of daily discipline, and the quality of completing tasks, and later developing into disputes in the field, with joys and sorrows, anger and laughter, adding a lot of color to the three-year study and life of the military academy.