Girls und War

All they are waiting for is for the headquarters to issue a certificate of qualification, and then they can be awarded their titles and leave.

During this waiting period, the students who had already passed the exam entered a short vacation.

At this time, the instructors were too lazy to pay attention to this group of children because they had already started their vacation ahead of the students.

Since there was no one to supervise them, the prospective students would get together in groups of two or three, either playing games in the dormitory or going out for a trip to relax.

As for Xia Shu, he took advantage of his free time to take a look at the imaginary battlefield.

I'm not looking at anything else, I'm mainly looking at the small aircraft carrier that has been under construction for a long time and is almost completed.

Looking at the huge ship hull being assembled in the dock, Xia Shu's heart was moved.

Judging from the current manufacturing situation, it is unlikely that the aircraft carrier will be installed before the Lunar New Year. However, after the Lunar New Year holiday, all the parts of the aircraft carrier should be installed on board.

Although this helicopter carrier is not as big as a regular aircraft carrier and has a displacement of only over 20,000 tons, it is a brand new top-of-the-line attack ship after all.

Looking at the helicopter warehouses separated in the cabin, Xia Shu seemed to see its beautiful figure galloping on the sea.

947. Promotion Path for School Officers

The establishment of special forces has now exceeded most people's imagination.

She has an independent base, independent organization, a large number of logistical support forces, and even her own aircraft carrier!

But that's not enough!

Xia Shu also wants more special warfare equipment.

Large transport aircraft, military bases, more personnel and more weapons.

She was eager to develop the navy, army and air force comprehensively and build the special forces into a small military headquarters capable of rapid response.

But if this continues, the special forces will have to establish their own independent zones.

This result is definitely not what the other generals want to see.

But Xia Shu didn't care. She still felt that the firepower was not enough, far from enough.

Xia Shu's combat philosophy not only affected her special forces.

Even the construction of special forces in other war zones has begun to develop towards more expensive and more powerful equipment.

The equipment level of the Flower District Special Forces is currently still the best in the imaginary battlefield. In order to maintain her combat position, she will also strengthen her combat equipment.

After this quarter, Xia Shu plans to equip the aircraft carrier with vertical take-off and landing fighter jets.

Then in the next quarter, it will be large transport aircraft.

Then military bases sprang up everywhere.

As for whether this will steal jobs from other branches of the military?

Xia Shu couldn't think that far for the time being because she was just a school officer.

As the saying goes, one should not meddle in matters that are not within one's jurisdiction. It is enough for her to mind her own business.

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By the time Xia Shu returned to the academy, the graduation certificates for this batch of students had almost been issued.

So the lieutenant colonels completed the ceremony of being promoted to majors under the supervision of Major General Shasa.

Except for those poor students who failed the assessment, all other students were assigned to various military departments.

Everyone has their own place to go. As for Xia Shu, she will naturally go to the special forces and continue to serve as her battlefield commander.

The job assignments for this group of majors are not much different from those for the previous warrant officers.

First, the Army Department selected people, then the Air Force Department and the Navy Department selected people, and finally, all the people that no one wanted were given to the Logistics Department.

However, the current position is only temporary. After all, colonels are not like lieutenants. After all, they are already the backbone of the battlefield.

Therefore, if there is a unit you want to join and you apply, there is a high probability that you will be able to transfer there.

Here I will briefly mention the promotion journey of the officers.

Unlike the new lieutenants who know nothing, the colonels are at least veterans who have seen the world.

Moreover, most of these veterans have various job experiences and were promoted from elite positions.

As mentioned earlier, there are roughly two promotion paths for lieutenant officers.

One is a civilian position, where you go to headquarters and start learning by writing reports. The other is a military position, where you start directly at the grassroots level.

Those who are qualified to be promoted to colonels are generally lieutenants who have done an exceptionally good job.

Moreover, they usually have experienced both civil and military careers, and can be said to be talented people with both civil and military skills.

Otherwise, he would not be considered for promotion to colonel.

For example, Qingxian worked as a clerk in the headquarters staff department for a period of time before being transferred to the Red Dragon Squadron.

Same goes for Yuu.

Even Xia Shu worked as a secretary under Jiamei for a period of time.

So if a captain does a good job, but headquarters suddenly transfers him to a position that he is completely unfamiliar with and asks him to familiarize himself with difficult tasks -

Don't panic, they are preparing to promote you to colonel.

These key officers who are promoted to colonels should generally be very familiar with all aspects of the military's work.

So there is no need to worry too much about the issue of civil and military positions.

However, at this time, there are two paths to promotion.

That is off-field promotion and on-field promotion.

The so-called off-field promotion, as the name suggests, is to be responsible for coordinating various military departments for war zone management in the military headquarters of the navy, army and air force, and complete a series of "troop maintenance" tasks.

After all, colonels don't stay in the grassroots teams and are less exposed to the front lines of the battlefield. Therefore, the battlefield threats they face are not as great as those of the troops on the battlefield.

Accordingly, they don't have many opportunities to make meritorious contributions. Even if they do, it is usually the collective military merit of leadership.

However, leadership achievements on the imaginary battlefield are often the least valuable, no different from leading a victory in an exercise.

This is also one of the characteristics of troops exclusive to the imaginary battlefield.

This leads to a result: off-field promotions are generally based on seniority.

A major, depending on the importance of the department, will be promoted to lieutenant colonel after two to three years, and a lieutenant colonel will be promoted to colonel after another three to five years.

As for going further, we can only do our best and leave the rest to fate.

If you have time, learn more about intermediate space warfare, maybe you will have a better chance of being promoted to general.

Therefore, in order to get promoted as quickly as possible and receive valuable military merits in combat, the more outstanding officers chose the path of on-site promotion.

The so-called promotion within the field does not mean that you are within the field just by staying in the imaginary battlefield.

Managing garrison camps, allocating supplies, or stationing personnel for the three armed forces all fall under the purview of helping the war zone maintain troops and are considered off-site work.

The real field officers are those who are responsible for deploying battlefield operations and have their own combat missions.

For example, the Front Integration Department is a typical on-site department.

There are other arenas, such as the command headquarters of various fronts. Working under those front-line generals is considered a dangerous arena.

The military merits and promotion opportunities obtained by these officers, who have a certain probability of being eliminated, are incomparable to those officers who have accumulated seniority outside the field.

There is another shortcut to promotion, which is to recommend yourself to join the staff of a senior general if you are optimistic about her.

In this way, if the general is promoted one day and obtains an important military position, the staff following her will be promoted quickly in military rank.

However, if you want a general to take a fancy to you, you must have some ability.

For example, Lieutenant General Liang Yue, who worked in the oil field area, received countless resumes every day. It seemed that everyone was very optimistic about this Lieutenant General in the flower district, who served in the most lucrative area.

But her staff now only has more than a hundred people and has not changed much in several years.

Moreover, following a general also involves certain risks.

If others are doing well, your value will naturally rise.

But what if they don't do well? What if they make a mistake and are sidelined by Parliament?

Wouldn't the members of her staff have gone blind on the spot?

As for job-hopping, forget it.

If you follow a big boss, you will follow him for life. Once you are on board, don't think about jumping overboard.

After all, a traitor is despised wherever he goes.

948. The feelings have faded

Now that we know the various theoretical promotion paths for officers, the situation of Xia Shu and her special forces seems very special.

After all, special forces are an independent military department, and there is no strict distinction between on and off the field.

Even if Jiamei and the management officers under her are considered off-site departments, the other departments also have to enter the site to carry out military tasks.

For example, logistics liaison, equipment delivery, etc.

Although there are no explicit regulations, the composition of special forces is generally considered to be on the front line of combat.

And because the department is independent, the outside world is accustomed to viewing the special forces as an independent combat area that can move quickly.

In other words, they are theoretically on the same level as command posts in the high mountain front, large oil field areas, etc.

This is also why the young commander arranged for Lieutenant General Qimingxing to be assigned to the special forces.

As for the promotion of the special forces, since they are only a newly established force, everything is still in the exploratory stage.

But what is foreseeable is that the future promotion of military ranks in special forces will inevitably increase rapidly.

Just look at Xia Shu and the officers and non-commissioned officers under her.

Last year, when the special forces' unnamed team was first established, its size was only a company-level unit.

As a result, the size of the army has expanded rapidly to this day.

It expanded from a company to a battalion, then directly to the regimental level, and now has added a large number of helicopter formations, and even an aircraft carrier is about to enter service.

Although it has not reached the scale of a division, it can definitely be called a special operations brigade.

Many lieutenants had already been promoted easily, and those who had previously been privates and corporals were now starting at the rank of sergeant, and there were quite a few sergeants as well.

Not to mention Xia Shu, who jumped directly from lieutenant to the Officer Academy in just over half a year.

Recalling the time she had been at the rank of captain, it was probably less than three months.

Looking further ahead, she probably won't be able to hold the rank of major for long.

Considering the current size of special forces, a major is not enough to be the commander-in-chief on the battlefield.

At least a colonel is needed to stabilize the situation.

It can be imagined that in the period after that, Xia Shu's military rank will be promoted like a rocket, rising steadily.

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Then some time passed and it was the end of the year.

According to the school's arrangement, the students first went to the lunar orbit base to watch the competition.

As for the job arrangement after being promoted to major, let's talk about it after the vacation.

Now the officers in the management department are on vacation, so even if they rush to report, they probably won't be able to find anyone.

After all, the Blue Star people are essentially lazy dogs.

The host of this year's event was the mixed zone. After arriving at the stadium, Xia Shu saw that the field was full of their flags.

Most of the people in the spectator seats at the Huaqu Military Academy were warrant officers who had just received excellent grades in the assessment.

Among the officers, only Xia Shu, Qing Xian and three others received excellent grades, so there were not many people.

As for the generals, they had their own viewing seats and were not in the same seat as the students.