Girls und War

Xia Shu didn't recognize this lieutenant general. She was more interested in the woman sitting in the second seat next to her, with four bullets on her rank.

Senior Sergeant Major, former squad leader Yue Chan.

One of the highest-ranking non-commissioned officers in the world.

Generally, people in the military academy would call her "old squad leader" when they saw her.

The term "old squad leader" can also refer specifically to this senior sergeant major.

Almost no one calls her name.

Xia Shu looked at the old squad leader sitting on the stage - his hair was tied up in a bun and pinned behind his head with a simple wooden hairpin, creating a relatively classic hairstyle.

He is also very friendly, smiling and has no airs at all.

Xia Shu couldn't tell her age, but he felt that she had a graceful and classical temperament, a bit like the young ladies in charge of the family in ancient times.

Xia Shu always felt that such a powerful person was very far away from her. Maybe when the two of them stood together, she didn't know what to say to her.

As for the other colonels and major generals on the stage, Xia Shu didn't feel anything.

Not to mention that she has seen all kinds of important figures since joining the army, even in this military academy, the only military rank she can see starts at captain.

Taking a walk around the academy, you will see that there are generals everywhere and sergeants are worse than dogs.

As a sergeant, he could hold his own at the grassroots level, but when it came to lieutenant cadets, wouldn't he just be an instructor?

Get used to it.

After the ceremony began, leaders of various departments delivered important speeches.

Xia Shu found it boring and looked around at the people attending the ceremony.

In addition to the more than 200 new students from the Lieutenant Academy, students from this year's Colonel and General Academy also attended the opening ceremony.

However, the number of students in the Officer Academy is not large, no more than thirty at most.

Not to mention the several brigadier generals from the General Academy - they sat at the front of the cadet seats, each one looking more like a boss than the other.

No, it shouldn’t be said that they are similar, it should be said that they are already big shots.

Because as long as they can complete their studies and go out, they will become bigwigs who can enter the Generals' Council.

On the contrary, the lieutenant cadets sitting in the back and divided into four sections had a more freshman feel.

After a long time, the leaders on the stage finally finished their speeches.

Then the counselors of each team led the students out of the venue in a line, ready to go to the training ground to start the initial training.

Natsuki was about to leave with the other teachers when he heard someone calling his name.

She turned around and saw a familiar figure running towards her in a hurry.

"Xia Shu! I finally found you! It wasn't easy!" Before the Dragons ran over, the foul-mouthed voice came over.

The other officers all laughed, apparently having heard the rumors about the foul-mouthed dragon a long time ago.

On the other hand, Xia Shu looked at Dragon and a smile appeared on his face.

After Dragun ran to Xia Shu, he patted her shoulder hard.

Xia Shu looked at the lieutenant colonel rank on Doragon's shoulder and asked, "Did you just come here? Have you handed over the squadron's affairs to Qingxian?"

Doragon nodded and continued, "I arrived yesterday and was just awarded my rank. I was planning to talk to you, but unfortunately I ran around the Lieutenant Academy and didn't see anyone like you."

Xia Shu thought for a moment and replied, "I should have been at the registration office at that time. It's normal that you didn't find me."

Then the two of them stood there and chatted for a while.

Pigeon didn't rush to call her over, but just asked her to gather at the assembly point later, and then left the auditorium with other teachers.

Doragon was quite interested in the training of Xia Shu and the others, but the school officer did not offer any special military training courses, only some simple drill and physical training.

During the six months they spent at the academy, they mostly learned leadership and combat knowledge for officers at the battalion level and above.

Xia Shu was a little skeptical about whether Doragon could pass the officer's skill test. However, Doragon said that it was no problem at all, and that those courses were a piece of cake for him and he could pass them on foot.

Upon hearing this, Xia Shu could only smile bitterly and remain silent.

If you can pass it on foot, then why would the annual officer assessment take you so long?

It turns out that when people are pretending to be cool, they have no brains.

The two chatted for a while. Seeing that most people in the auditorium had left, Xia Shu said goodbye to Doragon and said they would chat again next time they had the chance.

Then the two of them left, one to the Officers' Academy to begin classes, the other to the Lieutenants' Academy to begin supervising training.

710. Stand at attention more often to stay healthy!

The first training the trainees have to undergo is queue training.

Because they would be holding a ceremony to award soldiers basic military ranks in a few days. If they couldn't even stand at attention properly and form a uniform formation, the ceremony would be a disastrous one.

This is the same as the training sequence for new recruits.

The rank of warrant officer will be awarded three months later, after the internal entrance examination of Hua District is completed and the soldiers enter the Lieutenant Officer Academy. The new students from both sides will be awarded the rank together.

Then, after they pass all the courses and assessments for lieutenant officers, their rank will be promoted to lieutenant.

This was slightly different from what Xia Shu knew about the details of the military academy cadets' rank awarding, but Blue Star was different from Earth after all, so some discrepancies were normal.

After returning to the playground, the training grouping of the student team has just begun.

There were more than 200 students and 20 classes on the field, and they had already dispersed into teams under the command of their teachers.

As soon as Xia Shu arrived, they began their initial training of standing at attention.

She had already looked at the students' first week's course schedule, most of which were basic queue training.

Other more complex training subjects will only be carried out after they are awarded the rank of recruits.

The initial formation training wasn't entirely done by formation instructor Fafner. Other instructors would also help with the training, as this level of training wasn't difficult at all.

As for the real significance of Fafna's existence as a drill instructor, it is actually to teach this group of students more in-depth knowledge about drill training.

That is discipline training.

Discipline is the true core meaning of the drill training subject.

People who are good at queue training must have a deeper and more complex grasp of discipline, and it is for this reason that Pigeon chose Valrhona as a queue instructor.

Xia Shu is a person who loves to study.

She knows that every teacher in the teaching group has their own strengths.

So when I work with other teachers, I also try to learn what they are good at.

At the same time, learning is also a quality that officers need very much.

Recall the threshold for admission to military academies - a bachelor's degree.

How can someone who has no learning ability reach such a threshold at such a young age?

So after these girls entered the Lieutenant Academy, every training they went through was actually learning.

They are different from the soldiers in the recruit camp. The military academy trains them to be leaders.

Therefore, training is not just training, but also requires them to put what they have learned into practice and integrate the knowledge they have learned in training into training others.

Even if they don't understand it in the early stages, they will gradually be taught this principle during their later officer training.

Xia Shu, on the other hand, had already started studying ahead of them.

Learn the supervision techniques of other instructors and the strengths of the chief sergeants.

How high a position an officer can reach depends on how much talent she has in this area.

Xia Shu thought that her talent was not high, so all she could do was to be the early bird.

But then again, hard work is actually a talent. It's just that Xia Shu didn't realize it.

Let’s go back to the training on the field.

The initial training that Pigeon arranged for this group of students was not very strict.

After all, new training requires a gradual progress from the basics to the complex.

If we require them to meet the training standards of frontline combat troops from the beginning, then what will happen?

I guess in a few days they will be crying and asking their counselors to quit the team.

These officer cadets were no match for mass-produced recruits; they were precious. If possible, the Military Academy hoped to retain every lieutenant cadet.

Therefore, the pressure falls on the counselors of each student team.

Being a counselor for the student team is a very hard job.

Although they don't have to supervise training, arrange courses, or make lesson plans.

However, the students' daily lives are all taken care of by the counselors.

If students have any mental problems, the counselors should solve the problems as soon as possible to prevent them from retreating.

Anyway, after Xia Shu read the counselor's work outline, he was determined not to do such a thing.

Isn't this just being a wet nurse?

There is no reward for a good job, because that is part of your job. If you do a bad job, you will definitely be criticized.

The students may not understand, and the superiors may not respect.

No matter how you look at it, he's a pure-blooded punching bag who gets bullied by everyone.

Rather than doing that kind of thing, Xia Shu would rather work harder and continue to make lesson plans as a teacher.

While thinking about these things, she walked up to another girl and corrected her military posture.

When the girl saw Xia Shu, her face turned red and she avoided looking at Xia Shu directly.

This made Xia Shu feel a little embarrassed, so he could only pretend nothing happened and turned his head to look aside.

When the other girls saw that Natsuki was about to correct their movements, they deliberately made small mistakes in front of her.

As a result, wherever Xia Shu went, the soldiers there would stand in extremely bad posture.

Seeing this, Fafna unexpectedly spoke to Xia Shu and said, "Don't supervise the class anymore. Just stand over there and watch."

Xia Shu had no choice but to say "Oh", then walked obediently to the pigeon and became a spectator outside the field.

Seeing that Xia Shu was idle on the side, Pigeon chatted with her casually about the subsequent training arrangements.

The weather is a little cold today, but there is no chill in the college.

After standing for a while, the students gradually felt their bodies warm, and the heat slowly rose from their lower abdomen.

So it’s good to stand at attention. Not only does it make you look tall and straight, it also helps to keep fit.

It is much better to stand more when you have nothing to do than to take some random tonics.

After standing for about half an hour, Pigeon saw that the time was almost up, so he ordered them to relax and take a short rest.

After ten minutes, the break ends.

Pigeon then ordered the various teams of students to disperse and the instructors to organize drill training.

According to the previous agreement, the two cadet teams of the first and second squadrons were trained by non-commissioned officer instructors.

The third and fourth squadrons were handed over to the officers under Sister Dongliang.

Seeing the officers rubbing their hands in preparation, Xia Shu and the others couldn't help but laugh.

They didn't care how the training was arranged over there. In short, the first two or three squadrons still followed the original training plan and strictly implemented the schedule.

Therefore, six instructors were arranged to take turns to lead the two squadrons' initial formation training.

Each group consists of three instructors, and three of them teach a team of students at the same time.

The training rhythm is basically one person teaching and two people correcting.

In the first two days, the training courses arranged by Pigeon for the students were relatively relaxed, so the group of girls were talking and laughing, and no one wanted to quit.

However, Xia Shu estimated that after a few days, when the training volume increased, they would probably start crying for help.