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Abstract: In the popular TV series "Reconnaissance Hero" on the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the male number one is the reconnaissance section chief of a division of the Volunteer Army, and the villain is the intelligence captain of the Black Panther Division of the South Korean Army. Many people do not know what rank the chief of the reconnaissance section of the volunteer army is, and what is the rank of the intelligence captain of the ROK army?
In the popular TV series "Reconnaissance Hero" to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the male number one is Liang Chen (played by Luo Jin), the head of the reconnaissance section of a division of the Volunteer Army, and the villain is Bai Changho (played by Yang Fan), the intelligence captain of the Black Panther Division of the South Korean Army. Many people do not know what rank the chief of the reconnaissance section of the volunteer army is, and what is the rank of the intelligence captain of the ROK army?
In the organizational setup of the combat units of the PLA, units at and above the division level, including divisions, corps (group armies), corps, and field armies (military regions), usually have three departments in the command organs: the headquarters, the political department, and the logistics department. The headquarters is generally headed by the chief of staff, the chief of the political department is the director of the political department, and the chief officer of the logistics department is the director of the logistics department. The Reconnaissance Section is subordinate to the Command, and in addition to the Reconnaissance Section, the subordinate departments of the Headquarters also include the Training Section, the Military Affairs Section, the Communications Section, and the Confidential Section.
Although the chief officer and section chief of these departments and the section chief in the bureau and department section system at the local administrative level have the same name, they are not the same concept at all. The section chief in the local administrative level corresponds to the rank of an officer in the army, which is roughly the rank of a regular officer.
In addition, at a higher level of the military region, the reconnaissance section, as well as the training section, the military affairs section, the communications section, and the confidential section, which are subordinate departments of the headquarters, have also been upgraded to the reconnaissance department, as well as the training department, the military affairs department, the communications department, and the confidential department. However, although they are all "departments", they are one level lower than the first-level departments of the headquarters, the political department, and the logistics department, and belong to the second-level departments.
In the division-level establishment, the chief of staff, the director of the political department, and the director of the logistics department are all deputy division posts, and the deputy chief of staff and deputy directors of the deputy posts are all regimental posts; as the chief officers of the subordinate departments of the division headquarters, the reconnaissance section chiefs and training section chiefs are all deputy regimental posts, and of course there are also cases where they hold the rank of main regiment or battalion. In reality, it is more common to have section chiefs in the main battalion, but there are very few section chiefs in the main regiment, mainly because they have already made a lot of achievements, so they have been promoted to the main regiment and should be transferred to a higher position soon, but no one has come to take over yet, so they will continue to stay as the section chief with the regimental post for the time being.
In the drama "Scout Hero", Liang Chen should be the deputy regimental position. When the division commander was looking for a target for him, he said that he had already reached the standard of the "258th Regiment", that is, he was 25 years old, had eight years of military experience, and was a regimental-level cadre. Moreover, there is also a plot, in the dialogue with Baek Changho, Liang Chen said that his military rank is equivalent to that of a colonel in the US army, which also shows that Liang Chen is a regiment-level cadre. However, if the title was awarded in 1955, the deputy regimental rank was generally lieutenant colonel, because the division commander of the US army was a major general, and the division commander of the PLA was a colonel (corresponding to the rank of brigadier general in the US army), which was one level lower than the US army, so the deputy regimental position of the PLA was one level lower than that of the US army, not a colonel but a lieutenant colonel.
After Liang Chen was injured, he was sent back to China for treatment and lived in a ward with another regiment commander, which was obviously the treatment of a regimental cadre. And after recovering from his injury, Liang Chen went to Shijiazhuang Senior Infantry School for further study, and returned to the army after graduation, and the division commander was ready to let him serve as the commander of a regiment. This also shows that Liang Chen was originally the deputy regimental position, and after studying at the Shijiazhuang infantry school, he made great contributions, so he was promoted to the regimental position, and as mentioned above, he temporarily retained as the reconnaissance section chief with the regimental position.
In the 23 episodes, the Volunteer Army was ready to organize battalion-level troops to carry out intersperse, and Liang Chen proposed to lead the team by himself, and said that the battalion-level troops should be led by regiment-level cadres, and he was the most suitable regiment-level cadre. This clearly confirms that Liang Chen is a regiment-level cadre.
Some people think that at the age of 27 or 8, how can Liang Chen reach the regimental level? This is no problem at all; during the war years, there were many cadres at the regimental level who were 27 or 8 years old in the people's army, and there were even many cadres at the division level who were 27 or 8 years old. When the title was conferred in 1955, the youngest major general (regular military rank), Wu Zhong, was only 34 years old. There were a lot of major generals under the age of forty, so it was normal for regimental cadres to be twenty-seven or eighteen years old in those days.
The main responsibility of the reconnaissance section chief is to be responsible for organizing tactical reconnaissance and providing tactical intelligence support for the operational command of the division commander. In addition to the section chief and deputy section chief, the reconnaissance section also has a number of staff officers who are specifically engaged in intelligence collection, screening, and analysis. The basic force that the reconnaissance section chief can use is the reconnaissance company in the unit directly under the division, which is shown in "Reconnaissance Hero". The company commander and instructor of the reconnaissance company also served as reconnaissance staff officers of the reconnaissance section, and the first platoon and first squad of the reconnaissance company were sharp knife squads composed of elite and strong generals, and they were Liang Chen's most effective and relied on reconnaissance detachment, and they often personally led a squad to go deep behind enemy lines to carry out reconnaissance missions.
Moreover, in the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the reconnaissance troops of the People's Liberation Army (Volunteers) also undertook the combat mission of special forces, and often carried out special operations such as infiltration, raiding, and sabotage, so the reconnaissance section is also a special operations section in a sense.
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In fact, the reconnaissance section chief also existed in previous film and television dramas, but the young people born in the 90s didn't know it. In the classic old movie "Heroes and Die Hard" in 1956, the male number one is Zeng Tai (played by Yu Yang), the reconnaissance section chief of a certain department of the People's Liberation Army. It's just that in "Heroes and Die Hard", Zeng Tai, the head of the reconnaissance section, broke into the bandits as an undercover agent, rather than leading the scouts for tactical reconnaissance. In combat units, rather than professional intelligence agencies, sending undercover agents to penetrate into the enemy's interior, the reconnaissance section chief is undoubtedly the best candidate.
Next, let's talk about the level of the intelligence captain of the Black Panther Division of the Korean Army, the villain?
The establishment of the ROK army follows the name of the Japanese army, with divisions called divisions, regiments called wings, battalions called brigades, companies called squadrons, platoons called squads, and squads called detachments. However, the specific establishment is based on the model of the US military. This also fully reflects the characteristics of the South Korean army, which mixes elements of both Japanese and American forces.
The infantry divisions of the South Korean army are all numbered, such as the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, etc., with the only exception, that is, the Capital Division. However, in Chinese materials, the names of divisions, regiments, wings, and brigades are basically not directly used, but the world's most common divisions, regiments, battalions, and companies.
Hate Jun also does not have the Black Panther Division in "Scout Heroes". As for the prototype of the Black Panther Division, it should be the Capital Division, which is also the number one trump card of the South Korean Army, formerly known as the Capital Garrison Command established in Seoul in June 1949, and was renamed the Capital Division on June 18, 1950, a week before the outbreak of the Korean War. The code name of the capital division was "LTTE". It was the most combat-effective unit in the Korean army, and the first Korean army to cross the 38th parallel in September 1050 was the Capital Division. The Korean army in the Battle of Shangganling was also the capital division.
The Capital Division has the 1st Regiment, the 17th Regiment, and the 18th Regiment, of which the 1st Regiment is codenamed "White Tiger Regiment". Based on the example of the Volunteers' surprise attack on the White Tiger Regiment in the Battle of Jincheng in July 1953, the model play "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment" is even more well-known. The white tiger is very interesting to the black panther. Let's see if there will be a section where Liang Chen led a group of reconnaissance raids on the division headquarters of the Black Panther Division at the end of "Scout Heroes".
The ROK military adopts the organizational setup of the US military's combat units, and the US military does not adopt the three major departments of the department and the government, but directly sets up nine departments for specific operations: personnel, intelligence, operations, logistics, planning, communications (informationization), training, finance, and civilian. The names of these nine departments are all represented by letters + numbers.
The letter represents the branch and rank, the letter J represents the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J is the first letter of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in English, the letter G represents the Army Staff, G is the first letter of the General Command of the General Command, the letter N represents the Navy, N is the first letter of the English Navy of the Navy, the letter A represents the Air Force, and A is the English Air of the Air Force The letter S represents the corps or division of the Army, and S is the English word for staff officers
Staff officer的首字母。
The number is which department, 1 means personnel, 2 means intelligence, 3 means operations, 4 means logistics, 5 means planning, 6 means communications (informatization), 7 means training, 8 means finance, and 9 means civilian.
For example, J-1 is the personnel department of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, G-2 is the intelligence department of the Army General Staff, N-3 is the combat department of the Navy, A-4 is the logistics department of the Air Force, S-6 is the communications department of the infantry division, and so on.
The intelligence team was supposed to be a reconnaissance detachment under the S-2 intelligence department of the Panther Division, and the size of the intelligence team was roughly equivalent to that of a reconnaissance company of the Volunteer Army. The intelligence captain is between the commander of the reconnaissance section and the commander of the reconnaissance company, and he is roughly a battalion position, so Baek Chang-ho is a major rank, which is completely worthy.
Therefore, the positions of Liang Chen and Bai Changho are basically corresponding, and the abilities of the two are also equal, which is the so-called chess opponent.
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Lao Zhou, whose real name is Zhou Ming, once used the screen name Guangting, has been engaged in the study of military war history for a long time, and has served as a guest on military columns on Phoenix Satellite TV and Shanghai TV many times. He has published more than 20 military books, which can be consulted and purchased on the micro-store "Zhibingtang Bookstore" and a treasure online store "Zhibingtang Bookstore". Now there is a personal column "Lao Zhou Military" on Himalaya, which produces military audio programs. The "Old Zhou New Observation" video account has been set up on major video platforms to interpret military hot spots, please support.