My Military Career in a Parallel World

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Now it was Jiang Chen's turn to be surprised. He didn't expect that it could be played like this.

Seeing his astonished expression, Li Gang explained with a smile: "Those who are qualified to join the teaching team are the elites of all the companies in the division. Competing with them and still standing out is the best proof of strength. Isn't it normal to be a squad leader?"

After hearing what he said, everyone reacted and nodded in agreement.

Indeed, it is not excessive to give a squad leader the title of outstanding student by suppressing a group of squad leaders and deputy squad leaders in the division teaching team.

"There was a soldier in the first company. He was a corporal two years ago. He was promoted to squad leader directly after he came back because he received the medal for outstanding student." Li Gang also gave them an example.

Although this incident happened two years ago, it is still widely circulated in the reconnaissance camp.

After all, it is a rare thing for a corporal to be a squad leader in a reconnaissance company.

However, after listening to Li Gang's explanation, Jiang Chen still inexplicably felt like he was being taken advantage of for free.

It's just free stuff, isn't it? Since getting the Outstanding Student Medal can get you promoted to squad leader, why did the company commander act so serious at the time, as if he had made a great sacrifice...

Of course, Jiang Chen was just complaining in his heart. The fact that Ge Hongtao made him a private and served as a deputy squad leader and even secured a place for him to join the teaching team was very telling in itself.

The opportunity is already right in front of him, whether he can seize it depends on his own ability.

He is determined to win the medal for outstanding student of this teaching team!

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The news of Jiang Chen becoming the deputy monitor did not need to wait until the next morning for Ge Hongtao to officially announce it.

Just after the afternoon training ended and during the break before lunch in the dormitory, the news had basically spread throughout the entire Third Company.

Naturally, there was a lot of shock.

Later, there was news that Wang Jie from Class 3 was going to be the monitor of Class 7, and that after the New Year, the two of them would go to the teaching team to participate in training together.

The situation of Class 7 is rather special. The class monitor is about to retire, but the deputy class monitor was only promoted at the beginning of this year. Therefore, we can only choose one from the deputy class monitors of other classes.

Wang Jie's qualifications are sufficient, and Li Gang is a squad leader who was parachuted in, so it is somewhat unfair to Wang Jie, so it is reasonable to let him go to Class 7 to take over Lao Zhang's shift.

Therefore, the focus of everyone's discussion is still on Jiang Chen.

However, unlike the jealousy or resentment imagined, many soldiers were actually happy about it.

"This pervert is finally leaving. How many months will the training camp last? It would be best if he stayed for a year or half a year, so that we don't have to suffer with him!"

"Indeed, the sooner this kid leaves, the better. It would be best if he leaves tomorrow and never comes back. It would be even better if the division headquarters takes a liking to him and keeps him. Or the special forces could just suddenly show up and take him away, so that we don't have to worry about him every day..."

Among them, there are many non-commissioned officers from the first and second classes.

It was really that Jiang Chen brought too much pressure on them.

Ever since Jiang Chen ran the 400-meter obstacle course in one minute and thirty-seven seconds, they didn't know what was going on in other companies. But in the Third Company, as long as the soldier's time did not reach one minute and forty seconds, no matter if you were a new recruit or a veteran, you had to train like hell.

The training process is roughly like this: when others get up in the morning and run laps as usual, they have to practice an additional set of 400-meter obstacles.

During the noon training time, various physical training exercises that can improve the 400-meter hurdles performance are performed in turn, and the training continues until before lunch, and then a lap of the 400-meter hurdles is run.

The same process continued in the afternoon.

Even during the evening roll call, they had to practice another set of 400-meter obstacle courses.

Four rounds a day, morning, noon, afternoon and night, who can stand it?

The key point is that Jiang Chen just won't give up. I thought he would be good enough after practicing for a while, but who would have thought that after they ran under one minute and forty seconds, Jiang Chen's performance had a new breakthrough.

Before returning from the production company, Jiang Chen's average score for the 400-meter hurdles had already risen to 1 minute and 35 seconds...

Then there is no more.

I still have to practice the 400-meter hurdles...

However, Ge Hongtao did not push too hard and changed the original four rounds of training a day to two rounds a day.

However, before the veterans could start to feel happy, they received another piece of bad news.

Jiang Chen made a new breakthrough in the five-kilometer armed cross-country race.

The five-kilometer armed cross-country race is an old tradition of the army. Not only scouts but ordinary companies have to practice it.

This is also one of the few subjects where the reconnaissance company does not have an advantage when facing ordinary companies.

It’s not that their training volume is small, but that some companies have advantages in this regard.

For example, artillery and heavy machine gunners.

Under the influence of the fear of insufficient firepower, the weight of weapons and equipment these guys need to carry is simply terrifying.

It really proves the old saying, the only thing missing is using the heavy machine gun as a squad machine gun.

On average, a squad is equipped with two to three heavy machine guns. They have to carry these things around every day. It would be impossible for their armed cross-country performance to be bad.

The artillerymen are not much better. They carry shells every day, so how could their physical fitness be poor?

When Jiang Chen ran a time of 17 minutes and 48 seconds in the five-kilometer armed cross-country race, the veterans felt as if the sky had fallen.

The 400-meter obstacle course is still fresh in my memory, and now there is an armed cross-country race...

It is no exaggeration to say that except for the top-ranked soldiers in the entire reconnaissance company, the other veterans are spending every day in dire straits.

Now that Jiang Chen has been promoted to deputy squad leader, their squad leader and platoon leader can no longer use him as an excuse.

However, they were still a little uneasy. As long as Jiang Chen stayed in the company for one day, the squad leader would always have a reason to give them extra training.

Therefore, everyone was eager for Jiang Chen to go to the teaching team as soon as possible.

It’s best to never come back.

I thought that my role as deputy monitor would require some twists and turns, but I didn't expect everything to go so smoothly.

Needless to say, Tang Junjie, Hu Kai and others in his own class had already been mentally prepared. Jiang Chen was mainly worried about the veterans in other classes.

I didn’t expect... that things would go so smoothly.

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Time passes day by day.

Jiang Chen also gradually adapted to his new role as deputy monitor.

In fact, in most cases, there is not much difference between the deputy squad leader of a reconnaissance company and the deputy squad leader of a recruit company.

The main task is to assist the squad leader Li Gang in his work.

Check the internal affairs and maintain the class order. When the squad leader Li Gang is absent, temporarily act as the squad leader to ensure the order in the class and uninterrupted training.

In addition, in daily training, he cooperated with Li Gang to organize training, correct mistakes, and help soldiers in the class improve their military qualities.

The most important responsibility of the deputy monitor is to serve as a role model.

With the help of the dream space, even though everything has reached its current limit, Jiang Chen is still improving steadily at a very constant speed.

Now, his abilities in all aspects are no worse than those of other veterans in the class, and he is even better in some subjects.

Finally, it was the combat command that Jiang Chen had been waiting for for a long time.

Li Gang obviously knew what Jiang Chen lacked and had been helping him make up for it.

From the organization and analysis of intelligence, to basic map drawing, to the application of various team tactics, we taught him everything we could.

Jiang Chen did not disappoint Li Gang's expectations. With the time flow rate of ten to one, he quickly absorbed and digested the knowledge like a sponge that had been dry for a long time.

……

December 26th.

The first day of the twelfth lunar month.

There is only one month left until the Chinese New Year.

For unknown reasons, the annual large-scale exercise was cancelled.

They had been holding their breath, waiting to get back at the big exercise, but suddenly got such a result. For a moment, the morale of the reconnaissance battalion was shaken.

So much so that during daily training, no one was as enthusiastic as before.

Even the company commander Ge Hongtao was affected and went to find the battalion commander Lei Zhenjun.

However, the response was not satisfactory...

Not only their division, but the entire Southeast Military Region's exercises have been suspended this year.

The reason is very simple. The Beidou satellite system has just been launched, and military reform is imminent. Holding large-scale exercises at this time is not a good choice.

There was no hope for the exercise, but I couldn’t just let go of the anger in my heart.

Whether it was Lei Zhenjun or Ge Hongtao and the other three company commanders, they were all very clear about one thing.

Now is just the calm before the storm. Although it may seem calm and peaceful, secretly things are already surging, just waiting for the right time to erupt.

Therefore, they must find a way to keep this momentum going!

This method is also very simple, there are no drills, and there is only an assessment at the end of the year.

The army’s year-end assessment is also a big event. For ordinary soldiers, its importance is even higher than the annual major exercises.

For a soldier, standing out in a large-scale exercise involving thousands of people is as difficult as winning 50 million in the lottery.

Even if there are commendations for meritorious service, most of them are group commendations, and it is rare for an individual to receive an award for meritorious service during an exercise.

Especially influenced by the bad habits of previous years, exercises are becoming more and more like acting, and the chances of individuals standing out are even slimmer.

But the year-end assessment is different.

The year-end assessment is equivalent to a comprehensive summary of each soldier’s overall performance this year.

Many soldiers receive their first third-class merit or commendation in their military career from year-end assessments.

Examples like Jiang Chen who have the opportunity to obtain second-class merit through other channels are only a minority. For most soldiers who want to make merit and be promoted to become officers, they still have to rely mainly on annual year-end assessments and competitions.

If you accumulate two third-class merits or one second-class merit, you can get promotion.

Even if you are past the age for promotion, if you have a third-class merit, the treatment you can enjoy when you retire will be very different.

Therefore, for ordinary soldiers, the year-end assessment is their most important stage of the year.

For this year-end assessment, Lei Zhenjun spent a lot of money.

Each company was given six non-commissioned officer quotas, plus three third-class merit quotas, and several outstanding soldier commendations issued by the regiment headquarters.

Don't think it's a small amount. He managed to get this spot after begging and complaining to the regiment commander and the political commissar.

Under normal circumstances, it is very good for a company to have four to five non-commissioned officer quotas every year, and the number of quotas for meritorious service is even more ridiculous. Generally, a company only has one or two quotas for meritorious service a year.

The merit quota mentioned here refers to soldiers who have excellent performance in the year-end assessment and peacetime performance. They can directly obtain the merit quota after being recommended by the company commander and instructor of their unit.

And the final, seemingly insignificant award for outstanding soldiers is also a very important resume for ordinary soldiers.

A resume second only to the third-class merit!

With several company commanders deliberately allowing the news to be leaked, the gossip about the year-end assessment soon spread throughout the entire reconnaissance battalion.

Now, the scouts who had been a little slack suddenly perked up.

Especially some soldiers who feel that they have performed well and have the opportunity to get rewards, they work very hard in training.

Influenced by this, other soldiers also gritted their teeth and increased their training volume.

They dare not ask for meritorious service, but they can think about the commendation for outstanding soldiers. Some soldiers whose conscription is about to expire and who want to continue to develop in the army have also quietly increased their training volume.

After the evening roll call every day, the company’s small playground was still filled with soldiers doing extra training.

This is especially true in the 400-meter steeplechase.

Jiang Chen, the private deputy squad leader who improved the fastest in the 400-meter obstacle course, was often asked for advice by Lu Xingwang and others.

Jiang Chen had no intention of hiding his incompetence.

Thanks to the existence of the dream space and the experience and vision accumulated in his previous life, his teaching was more detailed and scientific than that of veterans like Li Gang.

In just over a week, not only did Corporal Lu Xingwang benefit, but the performance of several veteran soldiers in the class also improved significantly.

As a result, not only did the people in the third squad respect him as the deputy squad leader, but the soldiers in other squads also politely called Jiang Chen "Deputy Squad Leader Jiang" when they saw him.

In fact, the situation of Class 3 is relatively good. Li Gang once participated in the special forces training and selection and was exposed to some scientific training concepts.

But other classes were not so lucky.

In this era when the highest diploma of most soldiers does not exceed high school, the troops are basically trained in an unconventional way. They just do whatever the company commander and platoon leader say and the squad leader teaches.

Many things are accumulated by veterans from generation to generation, and then passed on to new recruits in pieces during routine training.

Few people would summarize and summarize these things, let alone make adjustments based on their own personal circumstances.

The good thing about Jiang Chen is that he had experienced the era of Internet information explosion in his previous life. He has a mobile phone in his hand, and as long as he wants, he can get in touch with and learn about all walks of life from all over the world.

When Jiang Chen was running the 400 meters in the recruit company before, he used the skills that Li Gang taught him and made some subtle adjustments based on his own situation.

For example, in the two events of climbing over a high wall and performing a high springboard, Jiang Chen was able to do them more easily and with less effort than other soldiers due to his height.

Reducing the force of the legs and focusing on training the pulling strength of the upper limbs are the adjustments he made based on his personal situation.

Everyone is training hard, and no matter how reluctant Jiang Chen is, he can't act too unsociable.

After the training each day, I have to go to the playground with others to practice more...