Source China Military Network Synthesis
"How can we make a contribution to the army?"
Before An Yiguang enlisted in the army, he had such a problem on the Internet "Baidu". Those posts and tricks on the online platform are still collected in his mobile phone.
Everyone did not expect that after more than 100 days as a soldier, An Yiguang wrote down his own answer to this question -
At the end of March this year, an air defense brigade of the 80th Group Army organized a post training contest for the first time in accordance with the requirements of the new outline, and after fierce competition in 10 major items and 17 contents, An Yiguang, a columnary of reconnaissance companies, stood out among the 56 top training leaders of the whole brigade, won the championship of the all-round competition, and was awarded the second class merit.
"Where did this champion come from?" As soon as the results were announced, everyone from the brigade leaders to the soldiers of the battalion company had a big question mark in their hearts.
The military championship is a "reference" and "symbol sample" for deepening training. Since then, the officers and men of this unit and even more have been "watching" the young private champion and the changes in the training ground behind him.
Please pay attention to the detailed report of the "People's Liberation Army Daily" published today -
An Yiguang participated in the competition commendation meeting.
The title of "Champion of the Ranks" highlights something
-- Training of An Yiguang, a columnary of an air defense brigade of the Eightieth Army, "Observation and Aiming"
■ People's Liberation Army Daily reporter Kang Zizhan special correspondent Li Liang correspondent Sun Lianwei
This soldier especially likes to ask "why"
Within a few days of selecting An Yiguang to his class, Su Hang, the leader of the reconnaissance squad, wanted to take "regret medicine."
"Squad leader, how to buckle your wrist when waving your arm to prevent the ballistic trajectory from going too high?" How? "The most common grenade throwing training, An Yiguang's question is a series of questions. Su Hang explained while doing the action, and demonstrated it 5 times before and after before and after to let An Yiguang completely "shut his mouth".
After 8 years as a soldier, Su Hang encountered such a thing for the first time. "In the past, if there were such soldiers, it was inevitable that they would be 'eaten' by the old squad leader. I've brought so many soldiers over the years, and no one has asked me why, so I honestly threw it forward..."
After the first protective training, Wang Zehua, the non-commissioned officer in charge of teaching the subject, found Su Hang breathlessly: "What happened to that An Yiguang in your class?" It's a '100,000 Whys'! When training, I asked hard, and the teaching progress was affected. ”
This soldier who "loves to ask why" not only sometimes makes Su Hang "regret", but sometimes annoys him even more-
"Map use" training, Su Hang taught everyone a "judgment two points through the view" calculation formula. At that time, although many new soldiers did not fully understand its principles, they felt that the squad leader could not teach wrong.
At this moment, An Yiguang spoke again: "Squad leader, how did you come up with this formula?" Su Hang looked embarrassed. To tell the truth, this was taught to him by the old class leader, and he had not studied how to come.
"Just remember!" Su Hang was a little unable to get off the stage and scolded loudly.
An Yiguang did not have a dead heart. He pondered for half a moment, calculated the formula several times according to the similar triangle determination theorem, and found that the class leader mistakenly wrote one of the formulas backwards when teaching, and couldn't help but ask questions again to point out the mistakes of the class leader.
The atmosphere in the training room was awkward to the "freezing point"...
This incident became an anecdote in the brigade. Many squad leaders saw Su Hang and "opened up": fortunately, I did not choose this soldier at that time, otherwise I would be more upset!
"I'm scared of him." Su Hang recalled that in order to cope with An Yiguang, he prepared and studied the training courses in advance every time to avoid "showing timidity". "I didn't expect this to come and go, and my training performance improved faster and faster. This boy has become a whip that forced me to grow, and it is also his cuteness. ”
An Yiguang became the all-brigade all-around champion, and Su Hang was not surprised at all.
"He doesn't allow himself to have question marks in every detail of training." Once, An Yiguang studied a training course until late at night. After understanding all the problems, An Yiguang excitedly woke up Su Hang, who was sleeping, and talked about his learning results.
"I really wanted to kick him." Thinking back on this, Su Hang couldn't help but smile: "In fact, when I think about the past training, I don't have a question mark in my head, but I don't have the strength to completely understand it." This kind of inquisitive research spirit, I have to learn from him. ”
Every time he trains, he does not "cut corners" and does not take advantage of the situation
After the competition, Zhang Shuai, the commander of the command and reconnaissance company, was often "ridiculed" by other company commanders: "Old Zhang, what special training did you give you to that young man?" Let's take the scriptures. ”
"What a special training?" Zhang Shuai thought to himself. To say where "special", in his impression, An Yiguang training is a little special "silly" -
An Yiguang's physical fitness base is relatively poor, but during 5-kilometer cross-country training, he never secretly took out some of the supplies in his backpack to lose weight like some new fighters. In protective training, some new fighters put the gas mask shallow and the fixing belt loosely so that they can be quickly taken off. But An Yiguang placed it as required every time and never took advantage of it.
Zhang Shuai liked this soldier a little bit, "He doesn't 'cut corners' every time he trains. ”
The "Fortification Construction and Camouflage" course has a high intensity and high standards, which tests physical strength and will. Many fighters would rather run two 5 kilometers than practice a construction, and some people must also specialize in picking soft soil sites, but An Yiguang works in a hard soil place every time. Often everyone else had finished resting, and An Yiguang was still sweating profusely against the hard soil.
However, when the superiors organized the assessment, An Yiguang, who was the slowest every time in the training, became the first recruit in the whole company to achieve good results.
During the preparation period, some fighters are studying the rules of the competition, thinking about which courses have a large score and which courses will be strengthened. Looking at An Yiguang or the content of each subject that makes "stupid", Zhang Shuai can't help but "guide" him a few words: "This subject does not account for many points, you study more and study others, and your grades improve faster." Unexpectedly, An Yiguang said seriously: "Company commander, I didn't think about practicing for the grades, I just wanted to learn a subject to practice solidly." ”
"Actually, he touched me too." Zhang Shuai said with emotion, "When fighting a war, if you don't practice well, you may lose your life, and if you practice well, you may save your life. ”
In the whole brigade competition, although An Yiguang is not the most prominent in a single subject, when the results are synthesized, An Yiguang firmly occupies the top position with the stable performance of all subjects.
"Training is not opportunistic, it is easier said than done. Practicing every action in place is the ultimate. Many people lament that An Yiguang's victory was an accident, and in my opinion, it is not surprising at all. Zhang Shuai said.
When you become a soldier, you have to study fighting wars, which has nothing to do with the length of the soldier and the level of the army
"At first he was close to me, thinking he was an officer when I was a platoon leader, but later I learned that this boy was staring at the ruler."
Platoon commander Wang Zhiqiang and An Yiguang lived in the same platoon room, and the command tools he brought back from the group army staff business training had long been targeted by An Yiguang.
A rankslide ruler? These training contents are not what fighters need to master, and they are obviously "cross-border". Wang Zhiqiang didn't take it seriously, "Why do you study these things, and you can't use them, is it bad to do something else during the break?" "Platoon leader, I think it's useful to come to the army and learn things related to fighting."
Wang Zhiqiang was speechless for a moment, but he was impressed by this recruit.
"In just 6 minutes, the Israeli army destroyed all 19 surface-to-air missile battalions of the Syrian army..." At noon one day, when An Yiguang casually read Wang Zhiqiang's "Selected Examples of Air Raids and Anti-Air Raids", he was attracted by the air battle in the Bekaa Valley.
Seeing that "the radar was interfered with, the appearance of the fighter was painted with gray and blue protective colors, and the visual search was difficult to find at a distance, so that the Syrian army fell into a passive situation at the beginning..." An Yiguang chuckled in his heart: He is an air intelligence reconnaissance officer who uses visual observation equipment to search for targets, what should he do in this situation?
An Yiguang's question, Wang Zhiqiang did not know how to answer for a while. He has not yet studied the example, which, according to the plan, is the content of next week's officer training "analysis of the classic examples of air raids and counter-air raids."
"The new outline of the soldier training course has added a lot of content that only previous officers required to master, which is not only an improvement of ability requirements, but also a cultivation of thinking mode." For An Yiguang to win the championship, Wang Zhiqiang thought more: the soldiers, the champion, the second class meritorious man are not the most accurate labels on An Yiguang, if you have to define this young man, he feels that a new type of warrior in a new era may be more appropriate.
With the continuous deepening of the understanding of the training law of the new outline, an air defense brigade of the 80th Group Army has taken a new step in training transformation. The picture shows the brigade organizing live fire at night.
The "catfish effect" storm shook something
-- Analyzing the changes in training brought about by a contest in an air defense brigade of the Eightieth Army
■ People's Liberation Army Daily reporter Kang Zizhan special correspondent Li Liang correspondent Song Xiao
Looking to the battlefield of the future, a marathon champion is not necessarily a qualified fighter
The new outline competition, which made it difficult for the old company commander and the old non-commissioned officer, let a private who had been enlisted for less than half a year take off the laurel.
For a time, the youngest champion of the whole brigade was almost unrecognized by anyone.
One night after the contest, Zhang Xiaocha, the instructor of the command reconnaissance company, overheard two soldiers whispering: The content of the contest is too new, so that a new soldier has picked up a bargain. Those courses of "writing, writing and calculating" are not the core competitiveness of soldiers.
A few days later, the comrades of the brother company came to inquire: Is An Yiguang enlisted in the army for the second time? I heard he had been a scout before.
How should We view An Yiguang's victory?
On that day, the top trainers in each subject in the battalion were dissatisfied and wanted to test the strength of the ranked champion, and launched a challenge in the training gap.
Grenades were thrown, and non-commissioned officer Guo Jiawei withdrew and swung hard, the action was comparable to a textbook, and the results were 10 meters ahead of An Yiguang.
In the next few competitions, the masters took turns to play, and An Yiguang only won 1 game, and the audience was in an uproar.
Sensing everyone's confusion, battalion commander Ma Xinchun adjusted the form of the challenge: the comprehensive ratio of multiple subjects.
With this adjustment, the result of the game was reversed: An Yiguang's overall results left the challenger far behind.
A few days later, the battalion organized a big discussion on the results of the competition, and nearly 80% of the top trainers said that the root cause of the failure was that they still stuck to the old thinking...
What is backward thinking? An "unfair comment" seems to answer this question —
In a thorough examination before the competition, An Yiguang scored the highest score in the theoretical subjects, and the results were announced, and the whole audience was indifferent; and Zhang Kai, who was in a platoon with An Yiguang, won the first place in the 5-kilometer cross-country, and the officers and men of the whole platoon cheered loudly... In the evening roll call, Gou Songmin, who served as a platoon attendant, praised Zhang Kai but ignored An Yiguang.
"Every year, most of the competitions are based on physical fitness. Like Gou Songmin, many warriors have a deep-rooted mentality of 'heroes by physical fitness'. Jia Shilong, chief of staff of the brigade, said: This time, in light of the needs of air defense operations and the requirements of the new outline standards, they organized this contest in order to use the "baton" of the contest to establish a training orientation that is consistent with training according to the program and training according to the battle, and to promote the transformation and upgrading of the training thinking and quality structure of officers and men.
Looking to the battlefield of the future, a marathon champion is not necessarily a qualified fighter. With the continuous escalation of the "catfish effect", not only An Yiguang's battalion, but also a "brainstorming" of training thinking transformation was set off in the whole brigade.
Talking about the shock wave of this "private champion", the leader of the brigade was full of emotions: the new competition field does not look at the age of the soldiers, does not distinguish between ranks, and does not recognize seniority, especially on the battlefield. A few changes in the curriculum can make it difficult for self-absorbed officers and soldiers to adapt, and the ever-changing modern war is more than enough to defeat an old-fashioned army. In this sense, although the competition is over, the "crossbar" erected by the new outline is still waiting for us to continue to cross.
If you don't update your concept, the "fish" that swam fast in the past will also be "photographed on the beach"
The competition continues, and the storm stirred up by the "catfish effect" is still spreading.
Halfway through the competition schedule, last year's third place in the brigade all-around competition, Sergeant Long Sheng Chao Khan has not yet produced a few drops, but he already feels that his brain is not strong, and his heart is bottomless...
The "Air Target Recognition" course requires visual judgment of 20 air targets and the technical parameters of each target are reported within 5 seconds. Before Long Shengchao could remember the parameters of the previous target, the next target appeared. In the end, he barely completed 5 questions.
In the "Measurement on Figures" course, participants must have the ability to quickly calculate parameters such as coordinates and azimuth angles. Long Shengchao racked his brains, but still did not finish the test paper.
Although Long Shengchao ranked among the best in the traditional physical fitness courses such as armed 5 km cross-country and pull-up, the physical fitness courses in this competition accounted for only one-tenth of the total score. In the end, Long Shengchao's overall score was only ranked in the middle of the level.
The content of the 17 competitions, most of which are new contents in the new outline, pay more attention to the comprehensive assessment and exercise of soldiers' physical fitness, intelligence and skills.
In the audience, Liu Xinqiang, the champion of the last all-round competition, is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one - in the eyes of the officers and soldiers, Liu Xinqiang should be the focus of the competition, not the "spectator" in the audience.
Why is Liu Xinqiang discouraged?
In a "measurement on the map" course training, Liu Xinqiang's results were not ideal, and many of the soldiers who were ahead of him were brought by himself, which made Liu Xinqiang feel mixed.
"Once a champion, it is difficult to deny yourself, and I am even more reluctant to face the embarrassment of 'new and old upside down' and the risk of transformation failure." Liu Xinqiang frankly said that in the new training courses added to the new outline, his training results have been lagging behind, although he did not participate in the competition, in fact, he had already lost.
Liu Xinqiang is not alone. In this competition in which the content of the assessment and the evaluation method are fully in line with the new outline, few of the "seed players" who have won gold and silver in the previous competition have won good rankings, but some unknown "rookies" have dominated the field.
The new outline changes not only the subjects, but also the "ruler" for measuring soldiers.
After the new outline was issued, Zhu Hongwei, commander of the Third Anti-Aircraft Artillery Company, was a little confused.
In the past, how to improve training performance? Zhu Lianchang is famous for his tricks-
When he first became a company commander, the company's training foundation was poor. Practicing cross-country, he runs with the company every day, running with weight; practicing tactics, he pulls the process over and over again, cuts the details... That year, he led the company to participate in a cross-regional exercise without deducting a single point. At the end of the year, the company was rated as an advanced unit in military training and took off the hat of advancing many years later.
However, in this competition, he made a difficulty - the common courses of the new outline changed from 9 to 15, how to arrange the time, and how to divide the teaching tasks?
When formulating the teaching plan for the "use of maps" course, Zhu Hongwei found that Quanlian could not find a competent coach. In the end, it was the unified coordination of the battalion and the centralized teaching of the training backbone of other companies that solved the problem.
For the first time, the "air target identification" assessment was organized, and one-quarter of the people in the company were unqualified. Zhu Lianchang asked unqualified personnel to copy all parameters 10 times and deepen their memories through forced transcription.
However, a few days later, the company organized the assessment again, and the number of unqualified personnel remained almost unchanged. Zhu Lianchang soberly realized that improving training performance is no longer a matter of running a few more laps and practicing several times. The mode of generating combat strength is no longer a simple transformation of "from quantitative change to qualitative change", and the thinking mode of group training must be innovated in an all-round way.
How to innovate? In fact, Zhu Lianchang did not have a spectrum in his heart. "These are all cadres' affairs, what are we fighters doing?" During an exchange, several old squad leaders complained to Zhu Lianchang -
In the new outline, the number of joint training courses for soldiers has increased to 15, covering physical fitness, skills, and intelligence, and some courses and officer training content are highly overlapping, and many soldiers and even group trainers are confused about this "upgrade".
So, are the subjects added to the new syllabus useful for warriors?
In a land-air confrontation, the brigade's electronic air defense forces began to emerge. Sergeant Guo Yuliang, who was transferred from the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery squad to the commander of the radar jamming station, calmly judged the technical parameters of the "enemy," determined the method of interference, interfered with the "enemy," and independently completed all command links. "From obeying orders within the formation of the anti-aircraft artillery company to now independently commanding based on the interference station, it is a transformation and upgrading of ability and quality." Guo Yuliang has his own understanding of the new outline: based on new equipment and new battle positions, each link of completing the task needs a new capability framework as a support.
After the end of the confrontation, many fighters have a common feeling: the subjects in the new outline that we consider "cross-border" are basic skills that must be mastered in actual combat.
"With the evolution of the form of war, the positioning of soldier training is not only good physical fitness and strong will to fight." Brigade Commander Wu Zichao held that the new outline calls for a new type of combat talent who has both intelligence, skill, and physique, and only by repositioning the warriors' fighting functions can the trainers shape a brand-new quality structure of the soldiers and lay a solid foundation for effectively fulfilling their missions and tasks in the new era.
Photo: Yao Guangkai