The formal training does not start until the fifth day after arriving from the base.
According to the PLA's general special forces training, if it is for new recruits, it will definitely be rock-solid physical training at the beginning.
There are almost no exceptions.
The reason is very simple. Whether it is individual military skills or group tactics, no matter what the project is, even today when mechanization is very popular, physical fitness is the most basic for special forces.
There is no doubt about this.
In one day, Tong Zhi and Li Zheng conducted a physical survey of the entire Army Special Operations Company.
The results are gratifying.
These army soldiers have very good physical fitness, good physical coordination, and sufficient endurance. On the first day of the test, they ran ten kilometers. With light loads, all but three of them completed the entire cross-country journey within 40 minutes.
The remaining three people did not last more than 42 minutes.
Within the PLA, this is the level of an elite front-line field force. With a little polish, there was no problem within 40 minutes of entering the unit.
Then there's the explosiveness.
There is simply nothing to say about this item.
The sports talents of black people have been greatly demonstrated. With long hands and long legs, they are definitely talented athletes in climbing and sprinting.
At the end of the day, both Tong Zhi and Li Zheng felt that the training plan needed to be changed.
It was originally thought that it would take at least a month to lay the foundation, but now it seems that it is completely unnecessary to concentrate on intensive physical training for a period of time. You can jump directly to the second stage for outdoor training, and intersperse physical fitness with the outdoor training.
According to the general training program for newcomers, the second step is usually to enter professional learning, and the first subject in professional learning must be field training, and the first subject in field training must be topography.
The reason is very simple. Even though there are positioning instruments such as individual GPS, high-tech tools are not invincible. Especially in some places with complex terrain, signals are often not received due to various interferences.
The tasks faced by special operations are often very difficult, the environment they face is particularly harsh, and the instruments may be damaged during the mission. Therefore, the most primitive things are the most reliable. This is until now, maps and north guides.
The reason why this most primitive object can still be retained in the special forces.
Although Sandy and his men were surprisingly good at individually, when it came to studying topography, they also gave Li Zheng and Tong Zhi a big surprise.
Not to mention the relatively technical skills of how to locate and find the magnetic azimuth, the simplest method of calculating the actual distance based on a scale would make the entire company blind.
"Where's the ruler? Where's your ruler?"
Li Zheng looked at a room full of soldiers holding rulers in their mouths but not knowing how to use them to measure the centimeters between two points on the map and then calculate the actual distance. His whole mind was buzzing...
"oh!"
Johnny reacted first, put down the small ruler in his mouth, and measured it on the map.
After measuring, I started biting the ruler again.
"Fuck me!"
Li Zheng felt like he was going to go berserk.
"Brother, you do calculations! Calculations! Do you understand? Didn't I teach you calculation formulas when I gave lectures before?"
Johnny felt a little embarrassed and smiled apologetically: "I forgot..."
"..."
Li Zheng was simply speechless.
He turned back and asked Sandy: "What education level do you soldiers have?"
He suddenly remembered that he and Tong Zhi had been busy testing their physical fitness and various military foundations for the past two days, but they forgot to ask about their education level.
Sandy asked Johnny: "Johnny, how many years have you studied?"
"primary school……"
Johnny replied shyly.
Sandy suddenly had a serious face: "Tell me the truth!"
His roar startled Johnny.
After straightening his posture, Johnny confessed: "Actually... I studied for three years... and then I stopped going to school and went out to make a living..."
Sandy sighed and said to Li Zheng: "He only went to elementary school for three years..."
Li Zheng's face turned pale.
This is crazy...
What else to do?
"Sandy, it's my fault that I didn't pay attention to their education level before. Now you should immediately - I mean immediately, go and investigate their education level for me and find out how many years they have been studying!"
"No problem, leave this to me." Captain Sandy immediately took out the roster, and then started asking one by one, and recorded one.
Tong Zhi came over and said to Li Zheng: "I'm fed up with topography. You just taught a lesson, and within forty minutes, they actually forgot about it."
Li Zheng said: "We can't hold a cultural class for them, right? We are here to train military, not to run a school?"
Tong Zhi said: "I'm telling you, Li Zheng, some things have to be handled flexibly. Our time is too short. We can't afford to waste time on every subject. I think our plan needs to be adjusted. Key subjects -
—What I’m talking about is that the focus is on tactics and individual soldier skills. More work can be done on these. As for technical military skills involving some complex points, I think they have been briefly touched on.”
Li Zheng said: "Calculate the actual distance according to the map scale. Is this the most basic common sense *** complicated? Deputy company commander, do you believe that even our domestic primary school students understand this kind of question?"
Tong Zhi suddenly laughed, laughing so hard that he couldn't even lift his waist.
Li Zheng was confused for a while: "Deputy company commander, why are you laughing?"
Tong Zhi finally stopped laughing and pointed at the soldiers: "The problem is... I don't think many of them have graduated from primary school. Besides, can the intensity and difficulty of primary school here be compared with the intensity and difficulty of learning in primary schools in our country?"
When Li Zheng thought about it, it seemed that it was really the case.
This issue……
Trouble.
Soon, Captain Sandy's investigation came to an end.
The roster with replenished educational levels was delivered to Li Zheng.
When Li Zheng and Tong Zhi saw it, the skin on their faces suddenly went numb.
There are 138 people in the company, 12 graduated from elementary school, 4 graduated from junior high school, high school...
Sorry, no...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The rest are all people who went out to make a living before graduating from elementary school, and signed up to join the army when they grew up.
These people are veterans, most in their twenties.
When they were still at the age where they should be studying, Country W had just experienced great turmoil, and it was a time when all kinds of businesses were waiting to flourish.
Therefore, many families regard making a living as their first priority. Studying? You have to fill your stomach first when studying, right?
Because of this, there were many children who dropped out of school, and the cultural quality of the entire generation was not high.
Those who were able to persevere were like Sandy, who at least finished high school. Later, because he was a "literate" soldier in the army, he was promoted to the military academy. At least he had received certain professional training and knew how to read maps.
It was indeed a bit difficult for them to ask soldiers like Johnny, who had only attended a free-range elementary school for three years, to calculate division and multiplication.
The two of them looked at each other, feeling at a loss what to do.
Tong Zhi has led countless special forces training camps. In the past, he always felt that he could not lead any soldiers that he could not lead well.
Now that he has arrived at the Army Special Operations Company in Country W, for the first time, he feels that he has more than enough to do.
"Yes!"
Suddenly his eyes lit up and he had hope.
"Li Zheng, I don't think we should be too aggressive. We must be more flexible."
Li Zheng asked him: "How can you be flexible? No more teaching? If you don't teach these, it's called fooling. When their superiors come to see them in three months, we will show them all the tricks on the training ground, and make a set of catching fists.
Just use grappling or a few quick-reaction shots to fool them? If they don't learn these, if they encounter actual combat missions in the future, people will die in minutes, and I don't want to trick them."
Tong Zhi said: "You are smart, but you love to get into trouble. Did I say you won't teach them topography? I mean, adopt a refined method and teach students according to local conditions. This is the environment and environment here."
Can you change the national conditions in a short time? Since it cannot be changed, we must learn to adapt."
Li Zheng felt that what Tong Zhi said made sense, so he nodded and asked him: "How about training, deputy company commander?"
Tong Zhi said: "You see, all our military subjects have more than one training mode. For example, this little trick of calculating actual distance according to map scale is one of the 'map recognition' subjects in the introduction to topography, and calculating actual distance
There's more than one way to distance, right? Tell me, how many have you learned?"
"The ruler method, the visual estimation method, the odometer measurement method... Huh?"
Suddenly an idea flashed in his mind.
"You mean to only teach the simplest, easiest to understand and least brain-intensive kind?"
Tong Zhi smiled: "You are a teachable kid. Look, you have finally figured it out, right? Why bother with him? What kind of method? It can be used, easy to use, and easy to use. I looked at a few methods and used an odometer to measure them.
Just teach them the Fa, don't waste our time."
The odometer measurement method mentioned by Tong Zhi refers to the simplest and most convenient way to calculate distance by using the odometer on a compass to measure on a topographic map.
There is an odometer on the compass needle, which consists of three parts: a dial, a pointer and a roller. There are 1:, 1:, 1: equal scale notes and kilometers notes on the outer divided circle of the dial.
Each number above represents the number of kilometers of the corresponding field horizontal distance. When reading, first return the pointer to 0 (that is, the pointer is aligned with 0 on the disk), then hold the odometer and place the wheel on the starting point (so that the pointer
(clockwise direction), roll along the measured line segment to the end point, and the number of kilometers pointed on the corresponding scale circle of the pointer is the actual distance required.
This calculation does not require formulas, just convert directly, which can be said to be a relatively intuitive and simple method.
"Okay! Great!" Li Zheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help complaining to Tong Zhi: "Deputy company commander, I feel that it is not difficult to teach them military affairs now. On the contrary, these basic knowledge classes before were really frustrating.
"
Tong Zhi said: "The other thing that makes you crazy, don't forget, no one in the entire company has ever been a sniper. Have you ever thought about how to train ten qualified snipers for him in three months?"