welcomes the sun.
This is a story of a group of "waves and white" protecting warships with youth.
We may have seen many stories of persistence above warships. However, this group of sailors who do not go out to sea with warships, the youth story of "supporting" warships to sail on the waves and sailing far away is little known.
They stick to the front line of South China Sea support, watching the warships set sail from the modern military port to the deep blue, and heading towards the journey of a strong country and a strong army - this is their passionate battle position and their youth witness.
They are communication soldiers , technical monitors, and mountain warehouse keepers... They cannot sail with warships, and even "can only see the sea in their dreams", but they understand in their hearts that every command they pass and every part they maintain is related to the safety of long-distance warships and connects to the future battlefield.
Only love can last for the long time. Their youth "has no confusion, only progress; no retreat, only growth." It is the courage to challenge oneself, the courage to go against the current, and the indifference to the ordinary.
The wonderful thing about their story is their choices when facing difficulties and various tests. Sometimes the choice of life is not to do something, but to not do anything. In this sense, what they stick to is the battle position and their hearts; it is their warships and their dreams.
The waves rushing on the youth track
■Dong Xin Fang Xia Fu Yibo
The most wonderful thing about it is not the moment you stand at the top, but everything you have experienced before
"Dou——" With a whistle, the participating officers and soldiers jumped on the platform on one side of the pool, and each of them took their place.
A figure jumped into the water lightly and swam forward hard. As the body moved, in the splashing water, she saw her arms alternately paddling, quickly surpassing her opponent, and plowing a white "trail" in the swimming lane.
This is a "friendly match", with male soldiers and female soldiers competing on the same field. The results of the competition have repeatedly refreshed everyone's attention: 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters... The champions of four swimming competitions were won by a female soldier.
"The Overlord Flower in the Army!" This female soldier who was praised by the base leader was named Zhang Xueyao, and was a top soldier in the communications battalion.
Zhang Xueyao said that she likes the sea of in the south of the most. Photo by Cai Bin.
was defeated by female soldiers, and the male soldiers were somewhat dissatisfied. On the training ground afterwards, the male soldiers who had competed with Zhang Xueyao worked hard, trained hard in the rain and tempered under the scorching sun. On another training ground, the "pool champion" was not willing to be outdone and charged towards a new training record. Outside the training ground of
, the company commander of the communication company, Guo Cheng, silently observed the girl who was working hard in training. In his eyes, the 50-meter freestyle champion of the 13th National Student Games is also a "good seedling on the training ground." The scene of
is so familiar that the clock hand turns back many years ago. Next to the swimming pool of
, Zhang Xueyao's college coach Li Jianping watched the 19-year-old college student who was challenging a new project, and from time to time he looked down at the stopwatch in his hand.
"Short-term training results have improved so quickly, she has great potential." Li Jianping said that he not only optimistic about Zhang Xueyao's talent, but also appreciates this girl's unyielding spirit.
to study at Sun Yat-sen University , and at the age of 19, he was on the national championship podium... Zhang Xueyao's life trajectory would not have any intersection with the green camp.
Because she was weak since childhood, her parents sent her to a swimming training class. The couple did not expect that their daughter would "fight" a national championship. They even unexpectedly, whether in the swimming pool track or the life track, Zhang Xueyao will pursue the goal of "winning the championship" to the extreme.
From learning from college, Zhang Xueyao is a complete "school master". In her junior year, she passed the layers of selection and sent foreign exchanges and study abroad.
returned home after studying. This girl who has won a scholarship, worked as an "intern reporter", and has also competed on the same stage with the Olympic champions, lived up to expectations and successfully obtained the qualification for admission to the . But she made an "unexpected" choice - to give up her qualification for admission to the postgraduate and join the army.
"Gathering along the warships and escorting the ocean for the motherland, she is so good!" In 2020, Zhang Xueyao watched the story of "The Most Beautiful Retired Military Personnel " from TV, and she began to depict a blue military dream of her own in her heart.
"I heard that I gave up on my postgraduate admission to the army, but my parents thought I was joking..." Zhang Xueyao pursed his lips and smiled.
At that time, facing the opposition of his parents, Zhang Xueyao said sincerely and confidently: "I am 22 years old, and the border guards are already on the border line of the motherland at the age of 18 or 19. I don't want to miss such a shining youth."
In order to completely dispel the concerns of his parents, Zhang Xueyao wrote a letter to talk about his ideals and persistence.
"My daughter has grown up, she has her own life goals." With the support of her parents, Zhang Xueyao put on a camouflage uniform and big red flowers as she wished, and embarked on the train to spring.
new training ended, Zhang Xueyao became a female telecommunication soldier, and the three-foot computer room became her new position. She felt a little disappointed when she failed to board the warship. At the beginning of her professional study, she was absent-minded: "Isn't it just memorizing a number, what's the difficulty?" Zhang Xueyao was on duty independently for the first time, and she was "unfavorable to go out." The phone rang and the phone was connected, and her brain suddenly "offset"...
"No matter how simple the work is, it has a complicated side." With the help of the squad leader Liao Qing, after the lights are turned off every night, Zhang Xueyao would memorize in the study room with "number cards".
In half a year, Zhang Xueyao integrated the "gold medal technology" of telecommunications and was selected to participate in a certain guarantee task. During those days, she often checked with the team to patrol . The mountain road is steep and the vegetation is lush. When you walk on the road, you will slip if you accidentally step on the air. The most difficult thing about
is to connect the line operation. The optical cable is extremely thin, so you need to cut the wire with hand pliers, peel off the wire tip, and then put it in the optical cable connection box to melt the fiber.
stood in the grass that was tall with one person, and she simply took off her gloves. The bleeding hole was cut on her hand, and she gritted her teeth and insisted.
"It's like climbing a mountain. The most wonderful thing is not the moment you stand at the top, but everything you have experienced before." Zhang Xueyao especially likes this sentence, especially after becoming a communication soldier.
Nowadays, Zhang Xueyao is already a "golden communication soldier". In her opinion, hard work and sweat are also a process of enriching life. Only by daring to endure hardship can the weight of youth be weighed.
Anyone will encounter a capability dilemma. We need to learn to break through the veteran Wan Jiahe who guards the mountain. Photo by Cai Bin
In the deep mountains, a convoy drove out of the cave, drove along the winding mountain road, and disappeared among the mountains. Standing at the gate of the camp, watching the convoy go away - every time I complete the ammunition transfer task, the third-level sergeant Wan Jiahe will wait at the door for a while.
A task is a test. Whenever I watched the equipment I had tested was sent out from the cave warehouse, the warehouse ammunition handler felt a sense of accomplishment. The tension and fatigue in the task disappeared at this moment.
In the eyes of comrades, Wan Jiahe is a "winner in life" who has successfully achieved transformation. When he joined the army, he had a secondary technical degree. With his hard work, he mastered professional skills such as chemical inspection, advanced electricians, and ammunition inspection, becoming the technical backbone of the army's "taken the mainstay".
climbed over the "mountains" and reviewed the climbing process. He felt that it was precisely the "unideal" and "unsatisfied" in life that gave himself the motivation to struggle and achieved the hard work and surpass after the lack of perception ability again and again.
"Know your shortcomings and then you will be brave." He often told the recruits around him that everyone will encounter a skill dilemma and we need to learn to break through.
At the beginning of the army, Wan Jiahe's specialty was warehouse lab technician . When he was the first "acid-base titration" test, he followed the class leader's appearance and picked up several syringes containing different samples of solutions, and injected them into the reaction dish without thinking. "How can the experimental data be accurate if the injection speed is not controlled properly?" The squad leader's words kept stabbing his heart like an needle.
"There is no necessary connection between education and ability" "Diligence and hard work are the touchstones of ability"... The first time I encountered a dilemma, Wan Jiahe did not retreat, but chose to advance and improve himself.
"He was extremely devoted to researching anything." Yan Jincheng, who was the director of the warehouse laboratory at the time, remembered that for a while, he often saw the lights in the laboratory on all night. "When I got closer, I found that it was Xiao Wan working overtime to 'energy charging'."
held a book during the day and asked questions, and consolidated the actual operation at night. Wan Jiahe's technical capabilities improved rapidly.
As one professional difficulty point is broken one after another, Wan Jiahe summarized a set of growth theory of "going against the current": on the road of growth, only by constantly forcing yourself to produce greater innovation at a certain "point". This theory has also allowed him to achieve more transformation in new fields time and time again. In the annual practical assessment of
, he was skilled in the operation and obtained detailed test data, which stood out among the participants. The judges on the spot unanimously gave the "Excellent+" evaluation. "After overtaking on the curve, we must also achieve the ability to 'leapfrog'" "We cannot be blinded by victory"... Wan Jiahe did not stop, but walked quickly to the next journey.
In 2007, he successfully entered non-commissioned officer school . Walking into the campus and getting in touch with all kinds of equipment, in addition to class training, Wan Jiahe, who loves to study and work hard, hand over all his spare time to the laboratory.
"'Disassembly parts' is the best way to verify what you have learned!" Under the guidance of the teacher, he repeatedly disassembled and installed multiple equipment. He keenly noticed an unstable data curve when he performed a certain type of ammunition decomposition operation at one time. The senior brother who operated with
said, "It may be because the machine is aging, so there is no need to worry too much."
"The deviation is so large, it will never be a problem with the machine." After repeated approvals, Wan Jiahe frowned.
That night, Wan Jiahe and his senior brother asked the teacher for help. The master and apprentice checked the calculations in the laboratory for several days in a row, and the table was filled with calculation paper... They found that factors such as "sample injection flow rate, sample atomization time" will cause data instability. 12 months later, their research results paper was published in the military core journal . "If you practice strong skills, you must always ask questions in your heart." A black-skinned book records the tricks of solving the "difficult and complicated problems" of various equipment.
Last year, due to work needs, Wan Jiahe transferred to another position and became an "ammunition handler", and the military base was also adjusted from the beach to the deep mountains. "New positions, new challenges; small positions, big responsibilities." After going deep into the cave library, Wanjiahe once again started from "zero".
once again chose to "zero" itself. What will be greeted will be another transformation and another breakthrough.
Here are my sincere comrades and a stage for my life. Here, I can realize my youthful value
Qiu Rui was walking in the mountains in the early morning. Photo by Cai Bin
Mountains, stars, and breeze - these keywords once ran through Qiu Rui's youth. As a navy, he had never even seen the sea, and had guarded the warehouse in the mountains for 16 years.
html The warehouse just started construction 116 years ago. As the first batch of builders, Qiu Rui was transferred here. "Backwardness" is the first impression that Qiu Rui gave here.The location at that time, economic development lagged behind, and it was a well-known poor county. The warehouse is located in the deep mountains. Looking around, there are thorns growing wildly and chaotic old trees everywhere, and there are no residents within a radius of dozens of miles.
leads to the top of the mountain, and there is basically no road. As soon as it rains, the rainwater wraps the dead branches and leaves, and merges into a stream and rushes down the mountain. Qiu Rui and his comrades carried their hands on their shoulders, transported baskets of gravel up the mountain, filled them with shovels and picks, and then they found a way to go up the mountain.
As time goes by, the resident has been lifted out of poverty and the warehouse has also been developed and built into an information warehouse. Qiu Rui participated in the renovation of all the warehouses. It can be said that he is the guardian and witness of development here.
In the 16th year of Qiu Rui's military career, he faced "turning backwards". "There is no staffing, and I can't stay even if I want to." At that moment, Wang Dakui, director of the Warehouse Political Work Department, saw regret in his eyes.
It’s late at night, the stars are silent, and the mountains are silent.In addition to the moon in the sky, the sentries on duty, and the insomnia Qiu Rui.
He couldn't sleep because he was reluctant to leave and couldn't let go. After the adjustment and reform of the compilation system of
, Qiu Rui's unit's mission and tasks have been further expanded, and many businesses are waiting to be carried out, and people like him who are familiar with technology business need to "overcome difficulties."
Every grass and tree here has feelings for him. He couldn't bear to leave the home built with one shovel and one pick, and he couldn't bear to leave his battle position and military uniform.
Half a year before he was discharged from the army, the soon-to-be-born child became the key to his unlocking of his heart. "It's also a perfection to be able to reunite with your family..." Qiu Rui comforted himself like this.
took nursing leave and returned to the hometown of Xiangyang . Qiu Rui and his wife reunited for 63 days - this is the longest time they have been together in 5 years of marriage. He named his son "Qiu Nanyi", which means "protecting the South China Sea for a lifetime."
Qiu Rui bought a good house in his hometown, and local enterprises also offered him an olive branch with a high annual salary. If he was placed locally, he could also get a career job in the county government. At this time, he was also silently prepared to leave the army.
When he received the call to "change life's path", Qiu Rui was coaxing Nan Yi to sleep. He pulled out the hand that was held by the child's little hand and quietly moved outside the door.
"Now I have the opportunity to stay, do you want to think about it..." In 2019, regulations on the conversion of active-duty soldiers to civilian personnel were issued, and Qiu Rui had another choice.
is not easy to choose.
"As a son and a husband, I feel guilty." My mother at home just had an operation and the new house was waiting for decoration. The reunion that the whole family was looking forward to may become a bubble.
"The warehouse is in a critical stage of information transformation. It is the time when technical backbones are in short supply, and it is also the time for me to repay the organization." After thinking for a long time, he made a choice. After discussing with his family, he boarded the train to return to the team overnight.
"Where you are, your home is." Faced with Qiu Rui's choice, his wife did not complain at all.
In 2020, Qiu Rui completed the transformation. On May 12, as soon as Hubei was lifted, Qiu Rui took his family and took nucleic acid test for and embarked on the road to leaving his hometown.
carried a heavy luggage, holding Xiao Nanyi, who was less than one year old in his left hand and dragging his luggage with his right hand. He turned his head and looked at his wife who was holding her mother and moving step by step, feeling sad.
That day, it was drizzling. The rain was not heavy, but it wet Qiu Rui's eyes.
17 years ago, Qiu Rui, who was still a recruit and dressed in "white waves", suffered the pain of homesickness for the first time and was still looking forward to the scene of returning home next time. 17 years later, he changed to civilian positions and was already "peacock blue", but he didn't know when he would be able to return to this place where he gave birth and raised him.
This time, he brought his home to a place where he had been stationed for 16 years. Qiu Rui said: "The distance we used to be, now we have become home."
Many people cannot understand why they have to go back and work for the rest of their lives after working in the sea border for 16 years. A diary of Qiu Rui gave the answer:
"I love every grass and tree in the warehouse. This is where my dream begins; I love the position of warehouse management, everything here is my friend; I love this blue military uniform, it is far more important than my life. Here are my sincere comrades-in-arms, and the stage of my life. Here, I can realize the value of youth."
Perhaps, this is the original intention and love of the soldiers.
Source: China Military Network-People's Liberation Army Daily
