My Military Career in a Parallel World

If it were in other places, for important events like commendation meetings, any leader would have to speak for at least half an hour or an hour on stage. But this is the military, and everything must be done neatly and quickly, and the same applies to awarding honors.

The regiment commander and the political commissar spoke for less than ten minutes in total, and this was because the political commissar, as a political cadre, subconsciously spoke a little more, otherwise the time might have been even shorter.

Comrade Zhao Hongbin, in this incident, responded immediately after receiving the report from his subordinates, communicated with his superiors in a timely manner, and contacted the local police. He remained calm in the face of danger, took charge of the overall situation, actively protected the lives of the hostages, and faced the knife-wielding gangster at the critical moment and successfully captured him. He made a great contribution and was awarded the third-class individual merit.

Comrade Li Gang discovered the problem and made judgments in a timely manner during this incident, reported it to his superiors immediately, and subsequently actively searched for clues and locked the target suspect's location. He was quick-thinking and able to respond on the spot, playing a crucial role in capturing the criminals and made a great contribution. He was awarded the third-class merit once.

Although it was a bit unexpected that Li Gang was awarded the third-class individual merit, it was also reasonable and no one felt that there was anything wrong with it.

After the two were commended for their achievements, it was Jiang Chen's turn next.

When the regiment commander came over with the second-class military medal, Lu Ming, who was acting as the temporary host, read out loudly:

"Comrade Jiang Chen, as a new recruit in this incident, showed extraordinary observation skills. He discovered the problems of the suspect at the first time and reported them to his superiors in a timely manner. In the subsequent actions, he showed his quick thinking as a young man, taking the lead in proposing ideas, discovering clues, and locking down the suspect's location.

Later, when faced with a knife-wielding criminal holding hostages, he dared to step forward and offered himself as a sacrifice to protect the lives and property of the people. At the last moment, regardless of his own safety, he seized the opportunity to break the situation, making an important contribution to capturing the criminals and protecting the lives of the hostages, and showing the responsibility that our new generation of young soldiers should have! "

"After discussion by the regiment party committee and approval by the higher-ups, it has been decided to award the new recruit Jiang Chen a second-class individual merit as a reward!!!"

"Clap clap clap..."

As the instructor finished speaking, there was warm applause from the audience.

The regiment commander personally placed the second-class merit medal on Jiang Chen's chest, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Do a good job, I'm counting on you!"

"Be loyal to the motherland, be loyal to the people!" Jiang Chen stood at attention, saluted, and shouted loudly.

"Haha, good!" The team leader also laughed.

Standing in front of the team, accepting the applause from the crowd and the praise from the regiment commander and company commander, and thinking about what the squad leader told him before the commendation meeting, Jiang Chen felt even more excited.

The second-class merit is not just an honorary award, but also an actual bonus, as well as hidden rewards that are unknown to the public.

Before the commendation meeting began, Li Gang secretly told him that in addition to the apparent military medal, the second-class merit would also come with a considerable bonus.

The specific amount varies according to different regions and military branches, and is generally between 30,000 and 8,000 yuan.

When Li Gang won the second-class merit, the army rewarded him with a bonus of 15,000 yuan.

They also knew about Jiang Chen's family situation, and the 228th Regiment was not a force short of funds. Li Gang estimated that the bonus was at least over yuan.

Although ten thousand yuan is not a lot, it is definitely not a small amount.

After all, the so-called bonus is only superficial, and the real reward for the second-class merit is still to come.

Not to mention promotion, considering Jiang Chen's age and the second-class merit, promotion is almost a sure thing.

Li Gang was just over the age limit when he made his contribution, otherwise, the minimum he would be carrying on his shoulders now would be 1.2 cents.

However, he did not suffer any loss. With the second-class merit, he would not have to worry about the rest of his life even after retiring from the army.

First of all, as we all know, after a soldier retires, unless you are an officer who has retired, you can only go home with your severance pay and it is basically impossible to be assigned a job.

But it’s different if you get second-class merit.

Active-duty military personnel who have won second-class merit can choose to be arranged for jobs by government departments when they retire.

In other words, he has a stable job and a stable position, and is definitely a high-quality son-in-law candidate in the land of Qilu.

Secondly, additional points can be issued during the quantitative scoring of discharge.

Although this policy is still only on trial and has not been promoted on a large scale, we are not the Eagle Sauce here. There is no such thing as changing orders every day. It is impossible to come up with a policy that we are not sure of. It is only a matter of time before it is promoted.

What is quantitative scoring and what does it do?

This is a preferential policy specifically for non-commissioned officers who have served for twelve years and have not chosen to find employment on their own, soldiers who have been awarded second-class merit or above during their service or third-class merit or above during wartime, soldiers who have been rated as having a disability level of five to eight due to war injuries, and soldiers who are children of martyrs.

A quantitative score will be given based on the veterans’ performance during their service, and the final score will serve as an important basis for the government’s ranking and selection of jobs for resettlement.

How to score is rather complicated, so Li Gang did not explain in detail, but simply gave him a few examples.

For conscripts and non-commissioned officers who have served for less than twelve years, three points will be awarded for each year of service. After twelve years, five points will be awarded for each year of service.

Personal commendation counts as one point each time.

For the Outstanding NCO Talent Award, the third, second and first prizes are worth four, eight and twelve points respectively each time, and the special allowance is worth thirty points.

As for what the Outstanding NCO Talent Award and the special allowance were, Li Gang did not elaborate, but only told Jiang Chen that the difficulty of obtaining these two things was no less than that of making meritorious service.

Then the highlight came.

Individual third-class merit is counted as three points each time.

It looks normal, and even feels a bit too low, just three points.

But it’s completely different when it comes to second-class merit.

Second-class individual merit, 20 points each time!!

It has increased by almost ten times, which is so exaggerated that it is almost equivalent to the total amount of a soldier's twelve years of service.

(Note: This policy is the answer I got from asking a soldier who was a son of a martyr who retired from the armed police. I don’t know if the army has it, but the armed police definitely have it.)

The higher the score when you are discharged from the army, the better the job you will be assigned. A second-class merit will add 20 points. There is no need to explain what this means...

Finally, in addition to the soldiers who have won the second-class merit, their families will also receive congratulatory messages and a certain amount of consolation money. It is hard to say how much it is, but it will definitely not be lower than the bonuses received by the army.

In addition, there will be a preferential treatment fund, as well as the plaque of meritorious service that was talked about by netizens in the past life, etc.

The second-class merit and the third-class merit are two completely different concepts. It is no exaggeration to say that getting the second-class merit is basically equivalent to having no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

After retiring from the army, there is a regular position, support for the family, and a generous bonus. It may be a bit exaggerated to buy a house and a car in one go, but with a regular position, paying off the mortgage and car loan will definitely not be a problem.

Moreover, you don’t have to suffer any anger.

As long as you don't have the idea of ​​climbing up the social ladder and simply muddle through your days, your boss won't be so desperate as to cause trouble for a second-rate contributor.

If this happened in the future, it would be the dream life of many office workers.

After hearing Li Gang's description, Jiang Chen had the urge to just give up and wait for discharge.

If there was no dream space as a golden finger, perhaps Jiang Chen would really choose to give up.

However, no matter what, he is a time traveler after all. Although his golden finger is not as good as that of other time travelers, at least he was reissued with a golden finger.

If I were satisfied with just a second-class merit, I would be somewhat unworthy of God's kindness.

Therefore, Jiang Chen finally decided to put aside the idea of ​​giving up for the time being and give it a try. Who knows, maybe he can become a general in the future...

What’s the difference between having no dreams and being a salted fish?

More importantly, he has the possibility to realize his dream.

If this was not possible, if Jiang Chen hesitated for one more second and lay down and gave up, it would be disrespectful to the fact that he had struggled for more than ten years in his previous life but achieved nothing!

It is not terrible to have no dreams. What is terrible is to have dreams but not see the possibility of realizing them.

Lying down and doing bad things is not voluntary, but it is just a recognition of one's own destiny and the collapse of fantasy after experiencing the beating of reality.

The commendation meeting ended before nine o'clock, fully demonstrating the soldiers' pursuit of efficiency.

Wearing a ribbon, a medal of second-class merit on his chest, and a certificate and a reward certificate in his hands, Jiang Chen followed the team back to the dormitory with a smile on his face.

Just as he was about to change out of his uniform and put away the military medal on his chest, he heard Zhao Hongbin's voice coming from the door.

"Li Gang, Jiang Chen, the propaganda department of the regiment and the military newspaper reporter are coming to interview us. Let the fourth squad leader lead your class's morning training first. You two follow me!"

Hearing this, Jiang Chen and Li Gang subconsciously looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

It's a good thing to receive awards for achievements, but it's uncomfortable to be interviewed afterwards.

Especially for Li Gang, who is a scout, he has an inexplicable resistance to reporters and cameras.

Let alone Jiang Chen, who has never been on the news or TV in his entire eight lifetimes.

At most, it was just that I met a big blogger by chance when traveling in my previous life and accidentally became a passerby in someone else's video.

However, it cannot be said that they are being excluded. After all, they have already received the benefits, so they can't just sit there and do their job.

If it weren't for the publicity aspect, it's hard to say whether Jiang Chen's military medal would still be second-class, and whether Li Gang's third-class medal would become a commendation.

Therefore, the two of them had already prepared themselves mentally.

There's not much to say about the interview, it's all the same old stuff.

The protagonist is naturally Jiang Chen, a college student recruit who won second-class merit.

Note: The emphasis here is on Jiang Chen’s identity as a college student soldier.

Secondly, Jiang Chen, as a new recruit, took the initiative to offer himself in exchange for hostages.

The superiors had already prepared a script for the answer, and Jiang Chen just had to read it.

Finally, let's ask Li Gang, one of the parties involved, what he thinks of Jiang Chen as his squad leader, how he usually performs, etc...

As the platoon leader and the main person in charge of the entire incident, Zhao Hongbin could not escape either.

As mentioned above, the standard answers have already been prepared, and the two people only need to read them aloud.

The theme is naturally how Jiang Chen usually shows his willingness to help others, how he helps his teammates, how he is dedicated, etc.

I won’t go into details here.

They were busy until noon, and were taken around the recruit camp by reporters and asked to pose for many photos before the three were released.

Special circumstances require special treatment. Although lunch time had passed, the company commander obviously did not forget that there were still three people who had not eaten lunch, and he had already instructed the kitchen staff to save food for them.

After a simple lunch in the cafeteria, I returned to the dormitory, put the second-class military medal hanging on my chest into the box and put it in the closet together with the uniform I received. Everything seemed to have returned to the way it was before.

Although he was a second-class hero, Jiang Chen was still just a recruit who had not yet completed the training of the recruit company.

After lunch break, everyone simply cleaned the dormitory and lined up to go downstairs to prepare for the afternoon exercises.

What surprised the recruits was that the company commander was waiting downstairs early, and several platoon leaders had serious faces, as if something big was about to happen.

"I have good news to tell you today!" Ge Hongtao walked to the front of the team and said loudly.

After hearing what he said, the new recruits were not happy at all. Instead, they felt as if "there are always villains who want to harm us."

It's no wonder that everyone thinks this way. It's just that their company commander has too many criminal records. It's no exaggeration to say that he has a "bad record".

So, when they heard him say that he had good news to tell them, their first reaction was not joy, but to look at him with suspicion and resistance.

However, this time, everyone obviously blamed their company commander wrongly.

Ge Hongtao ignored the new recruits' reaction, paused and continued: "I know that the first thing many of you think of when you come to the army is to be able to shoot!

Now, it's been a while since you got the guns, and it's time for you to experience what it feels like to shoot a gun! ! "

Wow~

As Ge Hongtao finished his words, they would have cheered out loud, either because the occasion did not allow it or because the word "discipline" had been ingrained in their bones.

“I have already discussed the use time of the shooting range with the regiment headquarters. We have one hour of use time from 4 to 5 pm.

Time is limited, so you must be prepared and don't waste time because of unnecessary mistakes. Now, each squad leader will explain to the recruits the precautions for live-fire shooting. Gather in half an hour and prepare to go to the shooting range! "

"Yes!!!"

The recruits shouted extremely hard, each of them looked like they were injected with chicken blood, their faces flushed red, and their excitement was beyond words.

Target shooting, I can finally shoot, I can finally shoot.

Although many of the recruits were forced to join the army by their families, their enthusiasm for firearms is no less than that of others.

Even the biggest motivation for many recruits to persevere until now is the steel gun in their hands.

The squad leaders repeatedly reminded everyone of the precautions to take when shooting, and the recruits listened very carefully.

There was no other way. The company commander had made it very clear just now that they only had one hour to use the equipment, and there were hundreds of people in the company. If for some reason someone didn't get a turn, the consequences would be...

No one can guarantee that this person will not be himself.

So everyone listened very carefully.

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