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Text: Broken Boat Cold
Edited by Broken Boat Cold
Preface
In a few years, there was a sentence that exploded on the Internet, that sentence was "I was a soldier on an American aircraft carrier, can you give me a discount on this baked sweet potato", and this sentence has been popular on the Internet for a long time.
This sentence actually comes from a propaganda video, in order to promote the new book he wrote, the name of the book is "I was a soldier in an American aircraft carrier", and the protagonist of the book is Luo Xue, a Beijinger.
When promoting her book, it was made in the form of street interviews, and during the filming, Luo Xue decided to humor it on a whim, so the whole classic clip was filmed and posted on the Internet.
The video became popular because Luo Xue loved and hated it, love was publicized, the book was publicized, and hate was that this matter was laughed at for a long time.
In any case, this book has been widely publicized and disseminated under this popular video, and this book has also attracted the attention of other people, attracting many military enthusiasts to this book.
Many of them also noticed a question, that is, how could he, a Chinese, run to the United States as a soldier, and what is the difference between being a soldier there.
Luo Xue's experience before becoming a soldier
When China was not yet developed, Luo Xue was born in 1972, at that time China was not as strong as it is now, as a Chinese child, I believe that many people's dreams are to be soldiers, and Luo Xue also had a dream of being a soldier since he was a child, wanting to go to the army to be a soldier.
Imagination is beautiful reality is cruel, when she began to grow up slowly, due to various reasons, Luo Xue was different from other children, other children were: studying, going to school, taking the college entrance examination, taking such a route.
He was different, he began to be interested in the professional aspects of art, especially the director, he just wanted to film, and at that time, he knew that China did not attach so much importance to this aspect, and even said that this road would not work in China.
But Luo Xue was unwilling to miss his inner thoughts like this, and began to find a way out through various ways, and also looked up a lot of information on the Internet, and finally found a way after unremitting efforts.
That is to study abroad, because the United States was already relatively good at that time, and maybe there was a chance to get in touch with this aspect, but Luo Xue's family economy was average, and it was not enough for him to study in the United States.
He was unwilling to give up this opportunity that was not easy to know, so he decided to go to the United States to study while working and working, and in 1994 he received an admission letter from the Department of Communication of Georgia State University in the United States.
After buying a plane ticket and leaving 400 US dollars and some luggage, he started the process of studying in the United States, where he first had to face the environment of adapting to the United States, and then relied on his own part-time work to earn living expenses, relying on the spirit of being able to endure hardships and work hard, and completed his studies while working in the United States.
After completing her studies, she also got a green card in the United States, and in the past few years after completing her studies, Luo Xue was attracted by the open culture and developed economy of the United States, so she did not choose to return to China when she completed her studies, but continued to stay here.
But if you want to stay in the United States for a long time, it is not enough to have a green card, you have to have American citizenship or permanent resident status, and when you don't know what to do, an opportunity comes to your door.
Why did Luo Xue go to the United States to serve as a soldier
One day in 1998, Luo Xue was resting at home, when a knock on the door woke him up, and when he opened the door, he found that it was a black soldier he didn't know.
The black soldier asked him if he would be interested in joining the Navy, he had never thought of joining the United States before, but when he heard about the benefits of joining the Navy, his heart was a little shaken.
Because after having a green card in the United States, you can go to the United States to serve as a soldier, and after becoming a soldier, you have the opportunity to obtain American citizenship, in addition to this, there are many benefits and so on.
Luo Xue was greatly moved by the fact that he could have American citizenship, and in this case, he remembered his dream of becoming a soldier when he was a child, so he decided to sign up for the navy.
Before entering the army, there are a lot of assessments, the most basic of which is divided into physical test and theoretical test, in the face of physical test, he spent a lot of energy to keep up with the large army to ensure that he will not be eliminated, and the theoretical aspect is relatively simple, and he easily passed the test in this regard.
After passing the test, he began to train as a recruit for eight or nine weeks, because he performed well during the training, he was selected as a technical soldier, and after a period of training, he officially became a qualified soldier and was sent to the Third Pacific Fleet of the United States.
At the beginning, his mission was very simple, that is, to direct the fighters landing and taking off on the aircraft carrier, to go out on patrol when he had nothing to do, and to go on a mission with the troops when necessary.
In these tasks, he felt too easy, and he began to relax a little, and was not as strict as he was at the beginning, and felt that these things were not difficult.
It wasn't until an accident that happened later that he almost killed him, when a fighter plane was landing, the position suddenly deviated, and the wings of the fighter grazed Luo Xue's scalp, and he was knocked out in the past moment.
When everyone thought he was dead, Luo Xue actually stood up slowly, it turned out that the air generated by the wings blew him out, not by the wings.
Since then, he has never said that he should take things lightly because of the size of his work, and that he must take everything seriously and cannot be careless.
In fact, everyone in the United States knows that racial discrimination is a very serious thing, and as a yellow race, it is even easier to be discriminated against, but here in the Navy it is a little better, if it is the Army, it is estimated that it will be miserable.
Later, when he worked on the aircraft carrier, he always maintained a modest and hardworking attitude, and soon won the respect of whites and blacks, and quickly integrated into the US military.
In 2001, he was also named Seafarer of the Year, and he was given his name and birthplace on the Hawkeye AWACS aircraft, at a time when Luo Xue was the first person in American history to receive this title.
By the end of 2002, it was time to serve for four years, and it was time to choose whether to retire from the army or choose to continue to be a soldier.
In the face of the choice, the black soldier found him again, hoping that he would continue to stay here, and his treatment and benefits would be comprehensively improved, but he still chose to refuse in the face of such a temptation.
Luo Xue after being discharged from the army
After retiring, Luo Xue also became an American citizen as he wished, but he did not forget his original dream of directing, so he entered the Los Angeles Film School and began to study, after studying for a period of time.
He began to enter Hollywood, and became a behind-the-scenes staff member in the filming of "Red Cliff" and "Kung Fu Dream", which can be regarded as the completion of his childhood dream.
After returning to China, Luo Xue found that the current China and the China he left were completely two worlds, because when he left, it was still in the 90s, and a lot of changes had taken place in just a few years.
Because of the rapid development in those years, the economy and the military are also developing rapidly, especially when the mainland aircraft carrier was officially put into service, although it is said that it was on the American aircraft carrier at that time, but after all, it was someone else's, and after the United States dealt with the aircraft carrier all day long, and after dozing off China's own aircraft carrier, I still felt relatively happy, because these things belonged to our own country.
Why write this book
After returning to China and learning how the mainland's first aircraft carrier came to be, I found that the mainland had gone through many difficulties and endured the suppression of Western countries, and it was still able to achieve such an achievement.
He not only lamented the country's difficulties and sadness, so he decided to write a book "I was a soldier on an American aircraft carrier" about his various experiences of serving on a US aircraft carrier for four years and his experience as an "American GI".
The idea of writing this book is to let everyone know the importance of aircraft carriers and the strength of military power at sea, and also to share some unknown behaviors on aircraft carriers for those who read this book, and also to share their own life abroad.
epilogue
In fact, in my opinion, everyone has their own dreams, and also has the right to chase their dreams, take him as an example, the conditions of his family could not support him to study abroad, so he chose to go to school while working, and the hardships of this are only known to him, which is unimaginable to ordinary people.
But life and your own thoughts appear, in fact, it is a kind of test, depending on whether you can pass the test and achieve your dreams.
This book also describes a lot of things that happen on an aircraft carrier, in which human life can disappear in an instant, and there may be casualties in the course of mission and daily training, and the loss of these lives is something that anyone wants to see.
Now he is also living the life of his dreams, has been dealing with the film industry, and hopes that he will direct his own movies as soon as possible.
May the future development of the world gradually be peaceful, not to let wars break out frequently, and to leave less bloodshed, and world peace and development is the ultimate requirement.
Reference: On December 25, 2012, China.com released "I was a soldier on an American aircraft carrier" about the aircraft carrier experience of a young man in Beijing
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