At the beginning of May this year, I was exchanged from a composite brigade of the 75th Group Army to my current unit, and a month later, the sudden notice of "surplus" made me suddenly have a huge psychological gap.
The squadron is located in a ravine, with armored vehicles all day, and I am a fire control professional, and I can no longer see a large scene of ten thousand guns firing in unison and iron flowing. However, the most uncomfortable thing is the awkward "residual" identity, the same platoon leader, others are a long row, a second platoon leader, and I seem to have become a surplus, redundant "yu" platoon leader.
In the few days after receiving the notice of "compilation", I could not find the coordinates of life for a while, and the self who longed for battlefield achievements seemed to go farther and farther, so I plunged into the pile of books, hoping to find the feeling of the past in the spiritual world.
One day, the eighth class leader, Li Daguang, saw me reading Guderian's "Blitzkrieg Heroes" and talked to me about the contents of the book. But when it comes to combat theory and the Soviet-German war, his masked expression makes me lose patience and interest. Gradually, I became intoxicated with the personal world, alienated from my comrades-in-arms, and my work motivation was also affected. At the beginning of July, I took the squadron soldiers to support the pistol shooting examination, because I thought the work was simple and boring, I read the book in the target trench, and as a result, I delayed the target inspection several times, and almost caused a safety accident.
My sluggishness attracted the attention of instructor Yao Lianxin, who took the initiative to talk to me: the exchange post was only a new battlefield, the remaining posts did not erase the identity of the soldiers, you are still young, as long as you find the correct positioning, you will be able to make a difference. I nodded my head silently, feeling the little flame in my heart burn again.
After that, the superiors arranged for me and the squad leader Kang Chao to form a helping pair. Kang Chao is a master of armored vehicle maintenance, and has changed positions 4 times since he joined the army, but he has never picked a pick, been discouraged, and has developed more than 20 technological innovations. In the face of job adjustment, he said the most: personal gains and losses are nothing, and the task should be loaded first in the mind.
Once, when the armored vehicle was suddenly lying down during a long-distance maneuvering mission, I was anxious and overwhelmed, only to see Captain Kang immediately jump out of the car, listen to the engine noise, quickly judge that it was a butterfly valve failure, and only 10 minutes to eliminate the danger. At that time, I felt that my face was hot: Compared with Captain Kang, am I really thinking about fighting?
Shame and courage. Soon, the squadron moved to the defensive combat training stage, and I took the initiative to ask the brigade for help, gave a theoretical lecture on "Syrian Civil War and Armored Vehicle Tactics" to all the backbone cadres, and talked with everyone about their experience in participating in the exercise. Subsequently, in order to prepare for the first firepower detachment competition of the armed police force, the detachment organized backbone reinforcement training, and as a shooting instructor, I soaked in the armored vehicle training ground every day, often called back to the original unit to learn from the experience, and took the initiative to introduce the five-step method of vehicle-mounted machine gun shooting training and other group training concepts, which effectively improved the training results. The comrades-in-arms joked that the "Yu" platoon leader who wanted to fight was back!
(Compiled by Yang Zhan, Zhou Zixiang and Li Jie)
