Some friends believe that the strategic support force is the fifth largest branch of our country and believe it without doubt.
However, no matter from the perspective of "name, rank, uniform, military flag, leadership organization", the strategic support force is not a branch of the service, but a branch of the service , which is an multi-service synthetic force .
This has also been indirectly confirmed by authoritative official media ( China Military Network , Xinhua News Agency ).
First, the strategic support force has no service name!
On December 31, 2015, the Strategic Support Force was officially established, and no official reports mentioned that it belongs to the military branch.
At the same time, in the white paper " China National Defense in the New Era" released by the state in July 2019, it does not mention that the strategic support force belongs to the service. instead collectively calls it "army, navy, air force, rocket force, and joint logistics support force" service .
Among them, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force are clear branches of the service, and their names are suffixed with " Army ".
. The Strategic Support Force and Joint Logistics Support Force are suffixed with " Force ", and there are significant differences between the two sides.
As we all know, the previous Second Artillery Force was not a branch of the military, but a strategic independent military branch of . It was only upgraded to independent military branch of after it was formed into Rocket Force . It officially owned all kinds of treatments (military name, military rank, military flag, military uniform).
In this regard, Xinhua News Agency once wrote an article saying: " Second Artillery was renamed the Rocket Force, achieving a historic leap from in the Mutiny Army."
It can be seen from this that similar strategic support forces are only a strategic independent army.
Second, the strategic support force does not have the rank of military branches! After the military reform of
, the ranks of officers and soldiers were classified according to military . was named the military name before the rank, such as the Major General, Air Force Colonel , Rocket Force Colonel, etc.
At the same time, the Army has also begun to be prefixed with the "Army". For example, the rank of the spokesperson of the Eastern Theater Command is clearly "Army Colonel".
However, in the strategic support force, there are multiple military ranks of in . For example, has a deputy leader , which is . The rank of lieutenant general of the air force !
Friends who are familiar with military knowledge know that there are not many cases of active-duty officers being transferred across military branches, but also happens to .
Once the cross-service branch is transferred, will be re-approved to the new military branch rank as soon as possible. For example, after the Army Major General is transferred to the Navy, he will be re-approved to the rank of Major General immediately.
If the strategic support force is really a branch of the army, it is impossible to grant the rank of other branches of the army. Among the active officers, the rank of air force lieutenant general will never appear!
Third, the strategic support force does not have military clothing!
The four major military branches all have special military service etiquette (constant) service . The main color of the army is pine branch green, the main color of the navy is white, the main color of the air force is blue and gray, and the main color of the rocket force is dark green.
It is worth noting that the Rocket Force changed into a new military uniform on July 1, 2016. At that time, China Military Network published an article on Xinhua News Agency , which clearly mentioned: "The Rocket Force appeared with a new image, which means that all branches of our army have their own military uniforms ."
And Xinhua News Agency is the most authoritative news release agency in in my country. All official information is mainly based on the content of Xinhua News Agency. It can be seen that the strategic support force without its own military uniforms is not a branch of military !
In addition, there is also intuitive evidence that 2019 National Day parade . At that time, the strategic support force phalanx included both army uniforms, navy uniforms, and air force uniforms, which were exactly the same as the Joint Logistics Support Force phalanx.
If the strategic support force is really a branch of the military, it is impossible to mix and match the uniforms of other branches of the military.
It can be seen from this that the Strategic Support Force, like the Joint Logistics Support Force, is a multi-service synthesized force, , composed of officers and soldiers from each service branch.
In fact, the strategic support force and joint logistics support force are both troops , and together with the armed police force, they form three direct troops .
Fourth, the strategic support force does not have military flags.
The four major military branches have special military flags. The upper half of maintains the style of August 1st military flag. The lower half of the army flag is a grass green flag; the lower half of the navy flag is a horizontal sea blue and white stripes intersecting; the lower half of the air force flag is a sky blue flag; the lower half of the Rocket Force flag is a golden flag.
Even the armed police force has had a special military flag since January 2018. The upper half of remains in the style of August 1st military flag, and the lower half is inlaid with three deep olive green strips .
However, the strategic support force does not have military flags , and does not have military flags , and uses the August 1st military flag.
Fifth, the Strategic Support Force does not have a complete military leadership organization.
The four major military branches and the armed police forces have complete leadership organizations, with ", four ministries and one committee, ", namely the "General Staff Department, Political Work Department, and Discipline Inspection Commission" at the deputy theater level, and the "Logistics Department and Equipment Department" at the military level.
However, the strategic support force only has " two ministries and one committee ", namely "General Staff Department, Political Work Department, Discipline Inspection Commission", and does not have a special "Logistics Department, Equipment Department" !
In fact, the strategic support force is mainly composed of two major systems, namely the "Network System Department and Aerospace System Department" at the deputy theater level. These two systems are equivalent to independent troops , with a complete leadership organization, and has a special "Logistics Department and Equipment Department" .
Moreover, the Strategic Support Force has two directly affiliated military academies, namely the "Strategic Support Force Aeronautical Engineering University and Strategic Support Force Information Engineering University". The former is managed by the Aerospace Systems Department and the latter is managed by the Network Systems Department.
Therefore, the war branch is a basket , which puts network system department , aerospace system department and other strategic support forces together to manage, rather than a military branch with a well-established system.
To sum up, the strategic support force is not the fifth largest branch, but a strategic branch composed of "officials and soldiers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force."
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