When it comes to the combat effectiveness of the army, the first thing that comes to mind is aircraft, ships, etc., but in fact, there is also a kind of combat effectiveness that is also a necessary condition for victory on the battlefield, that is, logistical support capabilities.
A few days ago, a military program of CCTV formed a hot discussion on the Internet, our army's cooking class in the field operations also have to fry sugar color, which is probably not the cooking class of other countries, looking at the delicious food in the program, let netizens drool, can't help but sigh, carrying a gun to fry sugar color is probably a unique feature of China.
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Associated with the movie "Chosin Lake" in which the warriors can only nibble on the frozen potatoes of the hard state, the current logistical support can definitely withstand the test. However, the improvement of the food of our soldiers was not achieved overnight, but was caused by an egg.
In the autumn of 1995, General Wang Ke, who had just become the director of the Logistics Department of our army, came to the National Defense University to inspect the work, and he found that the school canteen prepared an egg for each cadet's breakfast to ensure nutrition. General Wang was very satisfied with the canteen practice and felt that it should be implemented throughout the army to ensure that the soldiers had enough protein intake.
When he returned, he arranged for his staff to calculate how much the cost of food would increase in a year if all the soldiers added an egg.
The staff roughly estimated that each person was about three cents per day, so that the whole year was about two hundred million. In 1995, the mainland's comprehensive national strength was still relatively backward, and almost every penny had to be spent.
General Wang felt that the soldiers should be given nutrition, this money should be spent, although the military budget is relatively tight, but it is always possible to squeeze a squeeze, after making suggestions to the central authorities to adjust the food standards, at the subsequent all-army logistics meeting, he announced that he would scientifically arrange food for the troops, especially to ensure that he would eat an egg every morning.
At that time, everyone did not have too deep a concept of healthy eating, and some people even felt that Wang Ke was making a big fuss, and a logistics minister actually managed to eat eggs. Then General Wang explained to everyone that many of our soldiers are just 18 or 9 years old, still growing up, and the daily training is also very hard, if nutrition can't keep up, how to ensure combat effectiveness?
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After this meeting, General Wang's request was quickly implemented in the soldiers' meals, and it also officially opened the road of dietary nutrition for the army.
In order to let the soldiers eat well and eat nutritiously, Wang Ke, the logistics minister, can be said to be racking his brains, how to save military expenses as much as possible, but also to maintain nutritional intake, after investigation and demonstration, he decided to promote the whole army to carry out agricultural and sideline production, as far as possible to achieve the largest proportion of self-sufficiency in vegetables and meat for the troops.
Wang Ke, born in 1931, grew up from the grassroots level, because his childhood experience made him realize how happy it was to be able to eat enough.
His family is in Anhui, the family is very poor, the population is still large, in order to let the family eat, he and his two brothers have been working since childhood to earn money. But in that era, as a poor people, they were tired and tired every day, unable to eat enough, and could only barely starve to death.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance, his hometown also fell, and the Japanese Kou cruelly snatched away all the rations and livestock they had left, and they could not survive anyway, so it was better to rise up and resist. He and both his brothers joined the guerrillas, and in the later battles, both died.
The departure of his relatives did not shake Wang Ke's belief in the revolution, and he decided to inherit his brother's legacy and carry the revolution through to the end, so at the age of 13, he became a member of a glorious people's army.
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After the victory of the War of Resistance, he threw himself into the Liberation War, when Wang Ke was a company-level instructor in the East China Field Army. Unlike the War of Resistance, both sides of the war were Chinese, and Wang Ke and other staff members shouted on the positions and carried out political propaganda work against the enemy, and under their efforts, many Kuomintang soldiers revolted or surrendered.
After fighting in Korea, Wang Ke successively served in the artillery school, and then was transferred to lanzhou, Xinjiang, and Shenyang military regions, where he received the rank of general at the age of 63 and began to serve as the minister of logistics from 1995.
General Wang Ke's nutrition meal plan for the whole army not only improved the combat effectiveness of the army, but also enhanced the cohesion, and the soldiers ate carefully developed nutritious meals and trained with extraordinary strength. The combat effectiveness of our army has been recognized by the armies of various countries, and these are inseparable from the contributions of General Wang Ke and other logistical support personnel, and their merits will always be remembered by the soldiers.