"Military Sub-Plane" author: I am Ivan the Great
According to the "People's Liberation Army Daily" report, recently, our army's "Regulations on Military Meritorious Honors and Commendations" was officially implemented, and the army medals, medals, and commemorative medals in the new era were simultaneously launched. The new medals, medals, and commemorative medals focus on winning battles, concentrate on strengthening the army, are exquisitely designed, and carry heavy burdens, which are of great significance to encouraging the officers and men of the whole army to forge ahead in a new journey and make contributions to a new era.
At the same time, in terms of design specifications, to distinguish between content elements, size appearance, production materials, etc., from the size of the medal to the medal increases in turn, in terms of design implications, the medal highlights the highest honor, the honorary title medal highlights the benchmark model, the reward and commendation medal reflects the merit commendation, and the commemorative medal reflects the honorary experience. The new medal system is of great significance to the revolutionization and modernization of our army.
Highlights of this adjustment
Ivan the Great believes that our army has readjusted and designed the system of medals, medals, honorary titles, and commemorative medals this time, and there are the following highlights:
First, the officially launched national defense service, national defense service medal system, in fact, the relevant medal system, as early as 2007, when our army changed the 07 series of new uniforms, it was once circulated on the Internet. In Ivan the Great's impression, the commemorative medal system demonstrated at that time included at least a number of series such as national defense service, defending the country, participating in battles, and peace missions. However, due to a variety of factors, this early commemorative medal system was finally implemented only partially, the largest representative of which was a series of national defense service medals composed of the national flag and the peace dove, which was often used as an ornament for our soldiers, non-commissioned officers and cadets, and in the issuance level, it was only divided into three types: gold, silver and bronze.
The rest, such as national defense service, national defense, dedication to national defense, peace missions, etc., although issued in large quantities, in fact, in the daily wear of military personnel, there are not many, as for other "participate in the battle" series, "resist the United States and aid Korea" series rumored on the Internet, etc., it has always stayed in the rumors, and has not actually equipped our army's troops.
In contrast, our army's new system of medals, medals, and medals has made special modifications and improvements to the peacetime medal system: For example, in the field of national defense service medals, the new system has refined the commemorative medals into national defense service medals, national defense service medals, national defense defense medals, and dedication national defense medals. Among them, national defense service and national defense service are divided into a five-level system, and defending the country and dedicating oneself to national defense are divided into a three-level system.
In terms of design elements, the design elements of the medal system are distinct, such as the national defense service medal, which reflects the design elements of the people's army, the Great Wall of Steel, the cornerstone arrow, the bay leaf (especially the bay leaf, which is a bit Roman), and the Weiguo Shubian Medal, which specially reflects the design elements of mountains, waves, and snow lotuses.
Finally, for the first time in our army's commemorative medal system, a peace medal appeared, and the special feature of this medal is that it is specially awarded to foreign military personnel. It seems that in the future, the "Peace Mission" military exercise between China and Russia, the "Eagle" air force tactical exercise between China and Pakistan, and the Russian and Pakistani military personnel who will participate in the exercise in China will become the first batch of recipients of this commemorative medal.
The second bright spot is the further refinement and standardization of the system of wartime honorary titles and reward medals; for a long time, our army has mainly followed the unified regulations of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army on peacetime awards and the establishment and awarding of wartime meritorious service medals in 1979 for meritorious personnel who completed their tasks in wartime and peacetime. This stipulation was fine-tuned in 2011, and it was finally determined that two heroic model medals and three meritorious service medals, that is, the first and second class heroic model medals, and the first, second, and third class meritorious service medals, did not seem to have made provisions at that time for the honorary titles of first-class and second-class combat heroes that had appeared in the history of our army.
In contrast, the system of wartime honorary titles and awards newly promulgated by the Chinese People's Liberation Army has at least the following distinctive characteristics: First, the wartime reward medals have been further improved, and the "first- and second-class merits" that were originally relatively neutral and the characteristics of the awards were not obvious enough were officially standardized as "war merit medals" and "peacetime medals", and were divided into one, two, three, and four grades (peacetime medals are three grades), such as "first-class merit" was renamed "first-class battle merit medals";
The second is to further refine the nature of combat merits, such as the first, second, third, and fourth class combat merits of the "Battle Merit Medal", in the original medal and medal system, there is only one medal, and now, the medals of the same battle merit have been refined into three pieces, which are awarded to command operations, participate in combat and support support, and it is estimated that they will be awarded to commanders, combatants and logistics support personnel respectively. The first, second and third grades of the "Peacetime Medal" have also been further refined into four categories: combat readiness training, education management, national defense science and technology, and service support, and the award characteristics are more accurate, and the sense of honor brought to the military is correspondingly stronger;
The third is to set up a major non-war military operations award medal, commendation medal and peace medal three levels, in these three levels of medals, the design of the more distinct estimate is the commendation medal, its shape uses a "big red flower" shape, we all say that the hero to hang the big red flower, now this old tradition in the award medal has been perfectly reproduced.
In addition to the Medal of Meritorious Service and the Medal of Peacetime, the biggest feature of our army's new medal system is probably the newly established Medal of Combat Heroes. The Combat Hero Medal is divided into three levels, which are divided into special combat heroes, first-class combat heroes, and second-level combat heroes, in addition to the establishment of peacetime honorary title medals, major non-war military operations honorary title medals, etc.
In terms of design elements, the Battle Hero Medal continues the light that represents the battle record, the August 1st Army emblem representing the people's army, the hero flower representing victory and other elements, which is also the first time that our army has truly appeared after the reform and opening up of the battle hero medal that only appeared in the revolutionary war years. Undoubtedly, this is the return of our army to the tradition of a revolutionary army, which is of great significance to stimulating the combat effectiveness of our army in wartime.
Order of the Red Star "Qi Tu Su"?
Of course, in the new system of medals, medals, and commemorative medals of our army, the most eye-catching and dazzling is the two kinds of medals newly established or re-established by our army: one is the Red Banner Medal, and the other is the Red Star Medal.
After all, both the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Red Banner were an important part of the Soviet medal system:
In terms of the Order of the Red Banner, the medal is the first kind of medal established by Soviet Russia, which is used to recognize individuals who have shown heroism and selflessness in the defense of the motherland, and can also be awarded to troop-level, fleet-level units, etc. Before the Soviet government established the Order of Lenin and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1930, the Order of the Red Banner of the Soviet Union has been the highest level of the Soviet Union, until the later gold content has declined (after all, there are too many, up to 580,000 pieces);
As for the Order of the Red Star, it has appeared in the history of the Soviet Union and the history of New China, and the Award of the Red Star medal of the Usser Union mainly includes officers and men of the Soviet Army, Navy and Air Force and the Internal Guard, and can also be awarded to administrative organs and civil organizations. The Red Star Medal in the history of New China is a medal of honor awarded to retired cadres of the army around the Founding Day of 1988, and only 835 retired cadres have been awarded the Red Star Medal of the First Class in the whole army, and only 3721 retired cadres have been awarded the Red Star Medal of the Second Class.
Of course, as a new medal system established by the People's Liberation Army in the new era Chinese, the new "Red Banner Medal" and "Red Star Medal" and the "August 1st Medal" that have been established before, as well as the "Wartime Medal" established this time and the "Peace Medal" awarded to foreign military personnel, constitute a new medal system for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. At the same time, in the introduction of the "Order of the Red Banner" and the "Order of the Red Star", this time it is also specially pointed out that these two medals are "wartime medals", which are not awarded in peacetime, but only to individuals who have fought bravely and performed outstanding in war. In the new historical period, these newly established wartime medals and medals for combat merit set up by our army will certainly encourage more sons and daughters of the Chinese nation to dedicate themselves to national defense, and will certainly encourage more officers and men of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to fight bravely and win victory in the war.
T-80 tanks of the 4th Division of the Order of Lenin's Guards Red Banner Kandemirovka Tank
Finally, Ivan the Great said something of his own thoughts, we think ah, now that the construction of the personal honorary title system of our army has been basically completed, then, should we continue to improve the unit honorary title system like the Soviet army and the Russian army? Of course, our army now has many honorary companies and honorary detachments, but there are still very few honorary units above the unit level. Let's still look at the Soviet army and the Russian army, such as the famous Kontan episode of the Russian army, which has the 4th Tank Division of the Order of Lenin Guards Red Banner Kandemirovka Tank Division, the 2nd Guards Taman Motorized Infantry Division, and other honorary units, and the regimental honorary units are a long list; for example, the Korean People's Army, the most famous unit is the 105th Tank Division of the Guards Seoul - LiuJingshou.
If we can establish the honorary titles of the troops, and even the higher-level campaign corps and the high-level tactical corps, then in the future, we may be able to harvest the following heroic units: the XX Group Army of the Red Flag Changjin Lake awarded the August 1st Medal, the XX Composite Brigade of Songkuo Peak, which won the Order of the Red Flag, and the X Airborne Assault Brigade of the Red Flag on the Red Flag and the Order of the Red Star - although this kind of unit honorary title is estimated to be online for a long time to come, we can still imagine it.