Cobia is a unique rank in the Japanese army.
As we all know, the Japanese military is not the same as ours, or it is different from most countries in the world. Our troops, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and platoons; their divisions, brigades, companies, brigades, and so on. Moreover, the scale of this establishment is not necessarily corresponding. There are nearly 30,000 people in a first-class division, and we don't seem to have such a large-scale establishment.
The establishment is different, the rank is also different, as the obvious is that the school officer has become an adjutant, what a big or a little. Cobia is a rank for the most junior officers in the Japanese army. At the bottom of it is the captain, after the cobia, then up is the captain, warrant officer, second lieutenant, lieutenant, and so on. If you compare it, it's a bit like our non-commissioned officer.
As the saying goes, "many years of daughter-in-law to become a wife", in the past army, the older the seniority, the more experienced, the higher the rank of the soldier, the greater the span of promotion, like our founding generals, in fact, most of them are mud legs rolled up, no way, at that time we did not have conditions ah.
However, at that time, Japan had achieved high-quality command, and most of those above the rank of lieutenant officer had received military school education. Ordinary enlisted soldiers, no matter how you stay up, you can only be a non-commissioned officer, being a cobia is almost the same, it is difficult to go up. In fact, this was also a manifestation of the strength of the Japanese army at that time, so the strength of an army was not only reflected in the weapons and equipment, the quality of soldiers, and the quality of commanders.
Of course, someone here will definitely have to argue with me, saying that so many mud-legged generals in our past did not beat these students all over the place to find teeth. Yes, there is such a situation, but they have experienced countless times in the battlefield, and even failed, the best teacher on the battlefield. Moreover, this is not a process of disconnected learning, and on the whole, commanders who have gone through the military academy system must be more excellent.
Otherwise, Li Yunlong, why would they enter the military school? Otherwise, why is the proportion of our military cadets now getting bigger and bigger?
All in all, in general, Japanese non-military cadet soldiers can only mix with a cobia or cao chief at most, which is almost equivalent to the squad leader of our unit. The Japanese used to divide 12 soldiers into groups, and among these 12 people, there were 8 riflemen and 4 machine gunners, respectively.
Eight of the infantrymen were armed with grenades, three-eight large covers, bayonets, and three basic weapons. Four machine gunners are equipped with crooked machine guns and grenades, two basic weapons. Together, these 12 soldiers form a basic combat unit, and the person who manages this combat unit is what we call the cobia.
Cobias are usually held by "veterans" who have not attended military school, and the Japanese attach great importance to "origin" and "education". Grassroots soldiers, no matter how senior or experienced they are, cannot climb to higher positions.
For example, Japan's military ranks are only four grades, the highest rank is officer, followed by non-commissioned officers, soldiers, soldiers, military personnel from military academies, or military personnel with backgrounds, starting with the rank of non-commissioned officer, and soldiers from the "grassroots" may serve for decades to barely get the rank of non-commissioned officer, unless they have made special achievements in the war, the possibility of promotion is almost zero.
The officers of the cobia were low, and they were on foot when marching, and only officers above the squadron commander had war horses to ride. Of course, the cobia did not have a command knife available, but the type 38 rifle had a bayonet to stab, and a sun flag was hung on the gun to show that it was different from ordinary soldiers. In the course of fighting the Japanese, snipers would generally give priority to shooting the commander, and soldiers would first shoot cobias with flags on their guns. Later, in order to increase the chance of survival in the war, the cobia generally put away the sun flag on the battlefield and hung it on the gun when marching.
However, these "qualified but uneducated" soldiers are not worthless cannon fodder, they will be promoted to cobia, they will use their experience on the battlefield, leading a 12-man team to the battlefield, to establish a simplest, but most important combat unit.
It's like a sergeant in the U.S. army, a squad leader in our People's Liberation Army.
Everyone knows that the sergeants in the US military and the squad leaders of our army are the backbone of the troops. For example, in the movie "Saving Private Ryan", although the officer of the squad is Captain Miller, it is Sergeant Mack who actually leads the team.
The officer is only responsible for command, and the specific execution depends on the sergeant to arrange the soldiers to execute. In principle, officers do not participate in the war, only command, but the sergeant is required to participate in the war. Therefore, the sergeant not only has a certain command ability, but also can fight.
It can be said that the sergeant or cobia is the backbone of any army and plays an important role in carrying forward the upper and lower levels. If there are no non-commissioned officers, the army has the best soldiers, and the best officers cannot go together.
Therefore, the Japanese army also attaches great importance to the cobia.