Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 160: Sensing the Implications – It's Time to Talk About Terms
The training for reconnaissance personnel differs from that of the regular military. The assessments they undergo go beyond physical fitness, including both theoretical and practical components.

For example, the theoretical training courses on sniper rifles are not only for domestic standard weapons, but also for foreign military standard weapons.

Break time.

Some veteran sergeants gathered in small groups, whispering and discussing topics related to the female comrades in the Army Academy, occasionally letting out a "hehe" laugh.

His appearance was utterly sleazy.

Some took out their notebooks to review how to determine the target distance using optical rangefinding during sniping practice.

Among those promoted, there were some eager learners, and others who completely gave up.

Chen Mo didn't know the formula for this kind of sniping either; he just crammed at the last minute. He just followed the academy's teaching method.

He was studying the Kentucky wind correction method and related knowledge about elevation and angular compensation when he was engrossed in it.

Wang Bo, who was sitting to the side, suddenly moved in front of Chen Mo, poked him with his finger and said, "Scholar, what are you muttering to yourself?"

"It's okay whether you learn this crap or not, you won't need it when you go back to the army."

"Look at the people coming over there, don't they look familiar?"

"Who?"

Chen Mo looked in the direction Wang Bo pointed. The light weapons firing range at the foot of Cuiping Mountain was too large. At a glance, he could see the two military vehicles parked at the entrance.

However, some of the people coming this way were not very clear, but their figures were indeed very familiar.

Chen Mo got up from the ground, holding the Type 85 sniper rifle, and squinted to examine it closely.

After a while, they finally recognized the person as the captain who had brought their batch of trainees from the military region.

Lieutenant Colonel Zhai Hongtao from the Political Department of the 63rd Army.

"Why is he here?" Chen Mo was stunned for a moment.

For the past two weeks, the academy hasn't mentioned building a base again, and he has been focusing on training and academic studies.

Now, upon suddenly seeing people from the military region arrive, Chen Mo's heart stirred, and he could roughly guess what was going on.

After all, aside from building a training base, the military region wouldn't travel hundreds of kilometers to Shimen Army Academy for no reason.

They would never come to this light weapons firing range.

Chen Mo's intuition was right; Zhai Hongtao, who was coming towards him, quickly spotted him: "Scholar, come here for a moment."

"call!"

Hearing the other person call his name, Chen Mo took a deep breath and tried his best to calm his increasingly violent heartbeat.

As long as someone from the military region comes, that's fine.

Their arrival indicates that the academy is starting to take it seriously, because a single army academy simply cannot organize a plan like a training base.

Ultimately, the only partners for cooperation can be a few army groups under the Kyoto Military Region.

Chen Mo patted the dust off his clothes and turned to look at Fang Huai, who was standing in the distance. No matter what, Captain Fang was the direct leader in the academy.

Leaving the team definitely requires an application.

Fang Huai seemed to know who the newcomer was and didn't pay any attention to Chen Mo's situation. He simply arranged for someone to come and remove all the equipment, including the guns, from Chen Mo's body.

Release them immediately.

They were about to climb the hill with heavy loads, and a group of trainees and veterans were watching eagerly, their eyes burning with anticipation for Chen Mo's supposed abandonment of his duties.

They were very puzzled.

Where does this guy get so much trouble every day? He didn't have to train for a while, and now that he's only been training for a few days, he's already acting up again?
After all, with all the equipment removed, there's definitely no need to practice anymore.

Chen Mo didn't care what these old foxes thought. He quickly walked up to Zhai Hongtao, stood at attention, and saluted: "Greetings, Commander!"

"Ah!"

Zhai Hongtao returned the greeting, looked him up and down, and laughed, "This school really does nurture people. You've only been here for half a month, and you already look much stronger."

"How are you doing? Are you getting used to it here?"

"It's alright, each day is quite fulfilling, but it's not as comfortable as being in the company." Chen Mo smiled, looking up at the military vehicles in the distance, his eyes filled with doubt.

"You boy."

After noticing Chen Mo's gaze, Zhai Hongtao gestured towards the military vehicle with his chin: "Go ahead, Director Tao and Minister Lin are in the car behind. The commander has something to ask you."

"Even if I don't tell you, you can probably guess what it is."

"Yes!"

Chen Mo straightened his chest and responded in a loud voice.

Then, he ran quickly toward the military vehicle.

We're all sensible people, what else is there to say?

Chen Mo could not only guess why the people from the military region had come here, but also why they came to the academy and immediately came to find him.

It's not hard to guess.

There are many instances of cooperation between academies and military units; apart from the different missions they undertake, they are almost identical in every other respect.

When the military encounters technical problems that they cannot solve, they often send officers to the academy for help. When the academy needs to conduct experiments to obtain data, the military often has to cooperate.

The Blue Army Battalion conducted numerous experiments, each with a very high level of secrecy—so high that even many people in later generations were unaware that the Kyoto Military Region had conducted multiple experiments since 1992.

Every time, it ended in failure.

If Chen Mo hadn't served as a confidential secretary, and if it weren't for the fact that the document "On Informationized Warfare" had just passed its confidentiality period and he hadn't witnessed the experiment,

He was also unaware that there had been previous instances of Blue Army battalions eating hamburgers and beef while wearing foreign military uniforms.

Given these premises, it's not hard to guess that the military region's personnel came here to inquire about the establishment of the training base within its designated area.

In other words, since the personnel to be trained are to be drawn from the armored units of the 63rd and 38th Armies.

To save trouble, the training base will definitely be located in one of these two military regions, since the plan was proposed by themselves.

The 63rd Army will definitely come and ask in advance.

No matter what, they're all one of us.

Chen Mo jogged to the old Volkswagen Santana. Before he could even think about how to greet his superior, a soldier in the passenger seat got out and opened the back door. Two people got out of the car. One was an old man with a gold star on his rank insignia, Tao Ruichang, the director of the political department of the 63rd Army who awarded Chen Mo a second-class merit.

Old Tao always gave off a very kind and approachable vibe.

The other one, whom Chen Mo also knew, was the Minister Lin that Zhai Hongtao had just mentioned, namely Lin Yanhua, the Minister of the Training Department of the 63rd Army.

"Hello, Chief!!"

Upon seeing the two leaders get out of the car, Chen Mo quickly stood at attention and saluted!
"Hehe, young comrade, we meet again. Do you still remember me?"

Tao Ruichang looked at Chen Mo with a smile, speaking in a very casual tone.

Doesn't he realize that many people who have served in the field for years never have the opportunity to get close to a deputy corps-level officer?

How could I not remember?

"Reporting to the commander, I definitely remember it, I can't forget it." Chen Mo said, and deliberately raised his hand to touch the left chest. He continued, "When you awarded me military merit, you told me to never be arrogant in victory or discouraged in defeat, and to use my hard-earned skills to win honor. I have always remembered that."

"OK."

Tao Ruichang admires energetic young people. Although he doesn't know Chen Mo in this life, a person's character won't change.

There's a reason why the two of them were able to be together in their past lives.

Having guessed the purpose of the two leaders' visit, Chen Mo glanced at Lin Yanhua standing beside him and said in a strong voice, "Leaders, I know why you've come to see me."

"Really?"

This time, it wasn't Tao Ruichang who answered the call, but the head of the military region's training department, who was at the division level.

Lin Yanhua was a soldier who had made a name for himself in the military region during his first time as a private. He looked at Chen Mo with interest and said with a smile, "Then tell me about it."

"Yes."

Chen Mo took a deep breath, saluted again, and then said, "Commander, the Army Academy wants to conduct an experiment on information-based warfare, and the experiment requires the establishment of a training base."

"The commander wants to ask whether our military region should try to secure the location for this training base, right?"

Hear the words.

Tao Ruichang hasn't shown much yet. After all, he was the one who recommended Chen Mo for promotion, so he knows this young man quite well.

I also read the letters Chen Mo wrote before he enlisted in the army, and I also did some research.

It's not surprising that someone has this kind of insight.

Lin Yanhua was shocked and frowned. To be honest, it was not a pleasant feeling for a senior colonel to have his thoughts guessed by a cadet.

But Chen Mo didn't care whether he was feeling well or not, and just said to himself, "Commander, I know what you're worried about."

"Our 63rd Army has fewer armored units, so it seems the 38th Army would be better suited to this experiment."

"But sir, you must have read the conclusions about information warfare, right?"

Tao Ruichang simply nodded in response to Chen Mo's question, without saying anything more.

After all, this thing is still at a very high level of secrecy right now.

Lin Yanhua did not respond; he was not of a high enough rank to have actually seen it.

However, since the Gulf War, there has been a strong call for informatization in China, and he knows a little about it.

"Sir, modern warfare is inevitably a unit-based cooperative model. If sergeants do not understand the specific functions and coordination methods of other units, it will definitely limit their combat effectiveness."

"Command is something that the academy can never fully provide; it's a talent."

“Junior officers have a very high casualty rate in war. Currently, a standard junior company has only 7 officers: the company commander and deputy company commander, the political instructor and deputy political instructor, and three platoon leaders.”

"If three out of seven men are killed in action during a war, it will deal a major blow to the company's command system. If five are killed, the combat effectiveness will drop to rock bottom. If all of them are killed, it means that the unit has lost the ability to effectively organize combat operations."

"This is all because the non-commissioned officers do not understand the specific functions of other units. The information technology training base can solve this problem. In the past, the instructors were all veterans from the Army Academy."

"Even if we only send a portion of the people there, setting aside the reasons for the experiment, many veterans in our grassroots units who have not been promoted but have command abilities will have their abilities discovered after training."

"What they learn can be used to further enhance the resilience of the command system, even if it serves as a supplementary command mechanism in the event of a future war."

"Wherever they go to in the future, they can at least improve the combat effectiveness of that unit by 30%."

"Sir, this data is quite impressive."

Chen Mo spoke somewhat hastily.

Tao Ruichang was increasingly surprised. He guessed that the young man might talk about the importance of information technology and also about future development.

But I never expected that this kid would use the importance of training grassroots non-commissioned officers as his starting point.

Old Tao understood what Chen Mo meant.

That is the training base, which should not only be built on the territory of the 63rd Army, but also actively encourage people to sign up.

Regardless of other factors, the claim of a 30% increase in combat effectiveness during wartime is not a negligible figure.

After a long pause, Tao Ruichang nodded and said, "I understand what you mean."

"Let's go. Now, it's time to talk to those old guys from your college and discuss some terms."

After saying that, Old Tao opened the car door and sat in the back seat without anyone having to lift a finger.

Chen Mo was hesitating whether or not to go with them.

Lin Yanhua, who was standing next to him, tugged at him and said with a smile, "What are you still standing there for?"

"We accept your suggestion."

"Come on, you should go over and listen to those old guys about how they're handling the details of this training."

"Yes!"

Upon hearing that he could go too, Chen Mo excitedly opened the passenger door and plopped into the car.

It's time for me to perform again; I have to put on a good show.

Moreover, this time is different from the past; this time it's about implementation.

The meanings are different.

(End of this chapter)