Girls und War

It means you can have your own room in the dormitory.

From this perspective, it seems that it doesn’t really matter whether Xia Shu is promoted to a higher rank or not.

If it doesn't increase, it doesn't seem to matter. If it does increase, it can only be regarded as icing on the cake.

However, after Xia Shu won the first place in the world in the sniper competition and became the most famous sniper in the flower district, she seemed to need something to acknowledge her achievements.

So it felt like a natural progression for him to be promoted from sergeant to staff sergeant.

The person who was most happy to see this happen was undoubtedly Chunxiang.

When he saw that his old friend's rank had been raised one level, he felt that she was more worthy of his rank of Major.

How do you say that? A match made in heaven?

However, the title of sergeant seems to be a little bit short of the mark. It would be better if it was a master sergeant.

A major is paired with a sergeant major, a lieutenant colonel is paired with a senior sergeant major, a colonel is paired with a sergeant major, and a general is paired with a senior sergeant major.

But then again, from the level of Master Chief upwards, it is not something that can be achieved through simple hard work.

The assessment of the Master Chief series is based on actual combat experience.

Simply leading a company in combat is clearly not enough.

You have to have experienced at least a few major battles and be very familiar with multi-service and multi-company group operations to be eligible for promotion.

Otherwise, an ordinary sergeant would not be able to pass the interview alone.

Promotion to this level of military rank is just like the promotion from lieutenant to colonel, and I don’t know how many people are stuck.

At this point, just talking about leadership ability on paper is of no use. Even if you can get full marks on the theoretical test, you still won't pass the interview if your resume is not up to par.

Yes, this is where the fun begins. The interview process, which was previously useless, has suddenly become the biggest obstacle on the road to promotion to Master Chief.

And those fancy exam contents that follow - for a top student who can reach the rank of sergeant, which one of them is not easy to do?

Therefore, as long as you can pass the interview, it means that you have already completed most of the military rank promotion.

But it's difficult.

However, Haruka was not worried at all about whether Natsuki could be promoted to Sergeant Major.

Who is Xia Shu?

The world's best sniper.

As long as she wanted, she could go directly to the sniper training team to teach and become the chief instructor of the training team.

So, as the head coach of the sniper training team, is he qualified to get the position of a sergeant?

Of course!

Even if Xia Shu works harder and accumulates some experience, the rank of sergeant will be within her grasp.

Haruka has such a blind admiration for Natsuki.

However, Haruka forgot that the promotion path chosen by Xia Shu has always been deputy commander.

This feeling is very wonderful, just like a top student who won the gold medal in the Mathematical Olympiad and is determined to choose liberal arts.

It's a pity.

But from Xia Shu's perspective, whatever she does is her own choice.

I'm happy to do it! Xia Shu likes to be the deputy commander, is that not okay?

Who can have an opinion? Who dares to have an opinion?

If you have any opinions, why don’t you win a world championship?

That's the truth.

Back to Natsuki, whose rank had been promoted to Sergeant. Now that the assessment was over, it was time to return home.

After the filming crew and Chun Xia agreed on the time for the subsequent shooting, the two boarded the return military train and happily returned to the front-line combat camp.

After chatting for a while, the two returned to their respective camps.

Xia Shu returned to the Red Dragon Squadron, while Haruka returned to the officers' quarters at the regimental headquarters. Because Haruka was in the sniper training team, she was, in a sense, a semi-free person.

Xia Shu thought about whether he should develop in the direction of Haruka in the future, and then returned to the camp, scaring the girls in the camp again.

"What the hell? How come you are a sergeant? What's going on?" Squad leader Shuibian, who was still a prisoner in the snow area at this time, wailed and shouted in despair.

Recalling the recruit company last year, Shuibian watched Xia Shu join the army.

And she brought Xia Shu from a recruit who knew nothing... well... knew everything, to a private soldier. Even if she had no credit for it, she had a bond with him.

But this soldier, who had joined the army much later than himself and was trained by himself, was promoted all the way and finally surpassed himself.

Now she actually wants to call Xia Shu the class monitor!

Although I knew that this day would come sooner or later, when this day finally came - I still couldn't accept it (gritting my teeth)!

Seeing Shuibian crying in pain and looking regretful, Xia Shu tried to comfort him.

Qingxian had an expression of being accustomed to it, as if he had already been mentally prepared for the current situation.

And in Qingxian's expectation, maybe Xia Shu will be promoted to officer in the future and become his immediate superior!

However, the other girls who were recruits at the same time as Xia Shu were feeling so complicated that they couldn't express it in words.

Seeing that Xia Shu had been promoted to sergeant, while they themselves hadn't even made it past the level of non-commissioned officer - they were still privates - Zhan Ren and the others began to wonder if something had gone wrong.

What's worse, some people, like Jia, even had the strange thought that they were not worthy.

And this kind of "I really can't bear the loss of my daughter" atmosphere was detonated for the second time in the Red Dragon Squadron after Xia Shu entered the imaginary battlefield.

When everyone saw Xia Shu's new rank of sergeant, they all felt a sense of separation that they could not compete with him.

Seeing this, Doragon even started crying loudly.

This is no longer just about seeing my daughter getting married, this is about seeing her succeed in her career and start bringing baskets of white flour steamed buns home!

As the old father ate, he couldn't help but shed tears of emotion.

When the girls in the squadron saw their captain's words, tears welled up in their eyes and they celebrated for Xia Shu.

However, White Gloves understood Doragon and revealed the truth hidden in her tears in one sentence.

——This guy must have seen Xia Shu’s promotion in military rank and couldn’t help but think of her own promotion assessment in the near future.

When he thought about his own rookie business skills and the fact that he would definitely not be able to get promoted to officer, he couldn't help but feel sad and shed tears of pain.

After White Gloves finished speaking, the rookie captain burst into tears and cried out, "Xiaobai understands me! Xiaobai understands me!"

When everyone saw this, they all looked at the tearful man with disgust.

673. The military and politics are inseparable

Since we are talking about the sergeant major, it is natural to think of the only sergeant major whose name Xia Shu knows, the (fake) scarred lady with a bayonet.

It seemed that no one had seen a bayonet since the recruit company had been gone for so long.

So where did she go?

The answer is that Jun Ci was transferred back to the Hua District Headquarters after finishing his training with the new recruits.

She previously worked as a clerk at the headquarters, and after being transferred back, she continued to do clerical work.

If you look a little deeper, you will find that the commander of the recruit company at that time was Jiamei and the life instructor was Lieutenant Hua.

Jiamei and Hua are undoubtedly members of the Young Commander's faction.

Then, the military instructor of the new recruits of the same period must, of course, be from the Young Commander's faction.

Therefore, Jun Ci's job at the headquarters was to serve as a clerk of the Army General Staff, relying on the young commander.

Today was the regular meeting of the Generals' Council. The Vice Admiral, the Admiral Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and Air Force, and their respective officers would attend.

Generals from all departments in all war zones will attend the regular meeting.

Originally, Jun Ci was not qualified to enter such a conference venue.

But today, Jun Ci is going to send them a document.

In the preparation room outside the holographic conference room, Jun Ci was holding a draft document bag waiting to be opened.

This document was sealed with the fingerprints of the young commander and the chief of general staff. No one could open it without their fingerprints.

This is for the confidentiality of the documents.

But Jun Ci, as the data entry clerk of this document, already knew the contents of the document long before it was sealed in the file bag.

This is a newly drafted military proposal bill.

The document itself, as a bill that is only a preliminary draft, has no legal effect.

The bill will only take effect after it is agreed and signed by a majority of generals in the Generals' Council.

Jun Ci didn't know the meaning behind this bill or why it was drafted.

But she knows that if the bill passes, a huge number of people will benefit.

This person, most likely including that child——

Natsuki.

At this moment, the screen in the preparation room suddenly lit up, and Qimingxing said to Jun Ci on the screen, "Come in."

So Jun Ci swiped his card outside the door of the conference room, holding the file bag in his hand and walked in with his head held high.

The interior of the holographic conference room is an extremely large disc-shaped staircase space.

In the middle was a huge round table structure, where, in addition to the young commander, many other generals sat.

Only generals could sit around the round table. Others, even powerful lieutenant generals like Liang Yue, could only sit in the back row and watch the generals speak from afar.

However, this is a holographic conference room in the flower area, so except for the generals in the flower area, everything else is a holographic projection.

After Jun Ci came over, he stopped in front of the conference table and asked the young commander to press his fingerprint on the file bag.

Then Jun Ci took out the paper documents inside and placed them on the information scanner on the conference table.

Soon, the scanner scanned the contents of the paper document, and a holographic projection of the document appeared in the hands of all the generals present.

While the generals were browsing the documents, Lieutenant General Xun Xi, Chief of the General Staff of the Hua District Army, spoke to the people in the conference room on behalf of the Junior Commander:

"This proposed bill to lower the admission age for military academies is intended to align it with the enlistment age for soldiers. It's the optimal solution for expanding the officer corps and strengthening the military. If you have any suggestions on this bill, please share them. We can bring any ideas to the table for discussion."

As he said that, he signaled to Jun Ci to wait aside.

There was a slight chatter in the room, all from the generals who had just learned of the young commander's intentions.

The generals in the Flower District had heard the news before, so there was no movement.

The remaining three war zones, Eagle, Sea, and Snow, also learned about the proposal in advance through their respective channels, so they were also very calm.

After a while, a lieutenant general from the Sakura District raised his hand to speak, and Xun Xi signaled her to speak.

After the other party stood up, he asked Xun Xi, "What about the conscription age? Are there any plans to lower it further?"

"No, the conscription age for soldiers is already the limit. If we lower it, it will be difficult to ensure that the bodies of girls joining the army are fully developed. We don't want conscription to destroy the normal physical functions of every soldier, so this reduction is only intended for the conscription of officers." Xun Xi said, and looked around the field.

Seeing the embarrassed expressions on the faces of the few male generals present, she quickly added, "The young man too."

The generals discussed for a while, seemingly discussing the feasibility of this plan.

At this moment, a general in the Eagle District suddenly winked at the person next to him, and a lieutenant general behind her raised his hand and said, "If the conscription age for officers is the same as that for enlisted soldiers, wouldn't that be a betrayal of the military-level matching law?"

The so-called military-level docking bill is a principle-based bill proposed to ensure the control of military officers over the military.

One of the requirements was that officers must be of a higher age group than soldiers, so the minimum enlistment age for soldiers was 16, while for officers it was 20.

Of course, there was also the reason that the officer recruitment exam standard required college graduates to have completed a bachelor's degree, and only a very small number of people were able to complete their degrees before the age of 20.

As if anticipating this question, Xun Xi quickly replied, "We all know that under the Military Rank Matching Act, age isn't a reason for reversing ranks. Officers now rarely prioritize age or seniority over their command of the troops. Therefore, we can safely ignore the issues surrounding the Military Rank Matching Act. What's more important now is addressing the shortage of recruits."

After Xun Xi finished speaking, the generals in the field all nodded in agreement.

After listening to this, the lieutenant general from Eagle District asked again, "Can you guarantee that lowering the officer recruitment age will increase the number of recruits? After all, those who meet the officer recruitment standards are already well over the minimum age. According to the last survey data, the average age of those participating in the officer assessment should be around 24, right?"

Xun Xi certainly couldn't guarantee that, or if she dared to make such a promise, the other party would still find loopholes in her words and attack her.