Original title: 21-year-old new women's volleyball leader Wu Wenyu went to the plateau for 3 months to train - through the "appointment" in the hearts of soldiers
The picture shows that before going to the plateau for training, Wu Wenyu (third from the right) took advantage of the training gap to talk with the newly enlisted recruits. Photo by An Jianyu
More than three months ago, when Wu Wenyu, a new platoon commander of a regiment of the Xinjiang Military Region who had not yet passed her 21st birthday, rushed to report to the command and communication company that was stationed on the plateau for training, she did not expect that in addition to the strong winds and altitude sickness, she would also be greeted by an important foundation for her military life.
Plunging headlong into the Mang Mang Plateau, Wu Wenyu had not yet thought of how to burn the "three fires" well, and he was blown away by the wind and snow in the sky. Seeing the "plateau red" on the faces of the officers and soldiers, she loved beauty and wrapped herself tightly from top to bottom. Every morning when she got up, the first thing she did was look at the weather, and then she put on sunscreen, hoping that the wind wouldn't be so strong, the snow wouldn't be so big, the ultraviolet rays wouldn't be so strong...
Like all new platoon leaders who had just arrived, the soldiers looked at Wu Wenyu with curious eyes, deliberately keeping a certain distance from her.
Day by day, when she saw the warriors of the same age as her coming in the wind and in the snow, she suddenly understood: she is bitter, the warriors are even more bitter; she is afraid of tanning, are the warriors not afraid?
"Platoon leaders, platoon leaders, are platoon leaders, platoon leaders!" Wu Wenyu clearly remembered what the battalion commander said to her: "How you are, the soldiers in the platoon will be like that." ”
"Tanned skin can come back white, and the sisters are watching me." Her father was Wu Wenyu's idol, and remembering the veteran who had worked in Xinjiang for more than 30 years, she saw her own gap compared to the soldiers around her.
"As a new platoon leader, you must not only have the determination to 'plant' yourself at the grassroots level, but also have the sublimination to find meaning from the daily trivialities." Start from scratch, lower your posture, be humble and self-motivated, be a good 'primary school student', and win the trust of the soldiers! Her father's words lit up her heart.
"If your physical fitness is not as good as that of a recruit, a professional quality is not as good as that of a veteran, and the experience of leading a soldier is not as good as that of a squad leader, how can you smoothly realize the role transition from a cadet to a qualified platoon leader?" Wu Wenyu was determined to take the first step of taking the "beginning of the official" and quietly hid the cosmetics. The physical foundation is weak, she practices with the soldiers, shoulder to shoulder with the soldiers in the fierce wind; the professional skills are poor, she takes the initiative to find professional backbones for advice, not afraid of ugly jokes; lack of experience in leading soldiers, she follows the old squad leader to learn, to see what other company cadres do.
The warriors gradually discovered that Wu Wenyu was always the first to stand in physical training; the stove in the insulation board room needed to be coaled from time to time, she always got up quietly at night and burned the stove; the warrior had a headache and brain fever, and she was often the caregiver...
Wu Wenyu gradually won the favor of the soldiers with his actions: "This new platoon leader, no shelf, easy to deal with, people are still modest, can talk." ”
However, it was only a "good feeling", and the warriors still had the meaning of "waiting and seeing" her.
The real turnaround is a trip to tolerance. For training on the plateau, the company has to go to a place 3 kilometers away every day to pull water, and it needs a cadre with a car. Wu Wenyu took the initiative to ask for help and contracted this task. When she reached the point of pulling water, Wu Wenyu jumped out of the car, rolled up her sleeves and pumped water like a male soldier, and in a short while her hands and face were frozen red, but she was not afraid at all. The warriors looked in their eyes and cast a look of approval.
Pulling water back and forth every day, bumping all the way, and the warriors huddled in the narrow cab, the distance was closer, and the heart was closer. In this small space, Wu Wenyu knew for the first time that the female soldier Doumao Dolma and her mother and sister were dependent on each other, and her father died in the year of her college entrance examination; he also knew that Yang Tingting, who was introverted in her daily life, came from a single-parent family and was brought up by his father from childhood; he also learned that Zhang Min, a college student female soldier, signed up for the army 3 times in 3 years, committed to serving the country, and finally realized his dream...
When the soldiers really opened their hearts and regarded the platoon leader next to them as the object of conversation, Wu Wenyu also officially passed the "appointment" in the hearts of the soldiers. In her spare time, the warriors gathered around her more and more, without restraint, talking and laughing.
Wu Wenyu found that many soldiers worked well, but their personal feelings were still "blank", and many fighters unconsciously became older leftover men and women. With the support of company cadres, she held "emotional lectures" to share "love secrets" with everyone, which was particularly popular. "Learning to treat people well, get along with people, control emotions, etc., these kinds of human learning can be used everywhere you go." Wu Wenyu said.
In addition, Wu Wenyu's summary of the "Disease Prevention Guide" for plateau training was regarded by the soldiers as a "health treasure book". There were also many soldiers, like her, who picked up books and set off a reading fever in the company; many more read from her the strength behind the weakness, and read the efforts and responsibilities of a new platoon leader to adapt to the new role.
"Climbing higher, going farther, never a smooth way." Wu Wenyu told reporters, "As a new platoon leader of the 'post-00s', I must work very hard and not slacken my efforts to become a qualified grassroots cadre." ”
"The grassroots is fertile ground for talents, and it takes the courage to take root; the grassroots is a thick book, and there is no shortcut to understand it." As Gong Yihong, the political commissar of the regiment, said, no matter how lofty the ideal originates from the foundation of the foundation. Tasting Wu Wenyu's growth story, the reporter could not help but sigh: From integrating into the grassroots to reading and understanding the soldiers, from sharing weal and woe to practicing what they preached, this "thick soil" from the plateau has built up the initial understanding of the grassroots by new cadres like Wu Wenyu, built up a clear sense of role, built up practical experience as important as knowledge, and also built up the most solid foundation and self-confidence in the future military career. (■ Chen Dianhong)
Source: People's Liberation Army Daily