In the early fall of 1999, I successfully passed the college entrance examination with a kind of excitement and joy across the door of the university. This is a key university in this province, said to have nearly 80 years of history, the school campus does have a few buildings of the Republican era architectural style of the house hidden in the cypresses, there are also a number of small buildings in the Soviet style, but also chic, which all indicate to us newborns the history of the university, culture and vicissitudes of life.
Of course, the historical building is after all a minority, most of the buildings are still the last few years of the new building, the overall uniform student dormitory buildings, staggered teaching buildings, each with its own characteristics of the college buildings are to tell the civilization here is a concentration of knowledge, the paradise of paradise. The school also has a very modern stadium, green grass and plastic reflecting, full of youth and sunshine of young men and women in this exercise, games.
After a series of check-in procedures are completed, each enrolled freshman has to go to the physical examination, according to the height and shape to apply for military training clothes. School arrangement design is not bad, military training clothing is imitation of our military uniforms, light green shirt, army green pants, wearing a combat hat, or quite like that, I am tall, wear this body military training clothes, or can be described as handsome two words.
The first day of military training, due to the number of new students is too much, we are in accordance with the college divided into several venues to carry out military training. Lead our military training class platoon leaders are military school students, see age is not older than us a few years. But it is these hot-blooded young people, their precious youth dedicated to the cause of national defense of the motherland, it is said that the iron plate flowing soldiers, the dedication of the military is worthy of our ordinary people to respect.
The aftermath of the fall tiger did not experience people do not know, is wearing a T-shirt empty-handed outside walking around, has been sweating, not to mention that we are wearing long-sleeved uniforms. The collar and cuffs are buttoned up for the sake of military appearance, and there is a big, airtight hat on top of our heads. Standing under the blazing sun, I could feel the sweat running down my back, onto my tight belt, soaking the clothes around it. The sweat on the head is also flowing straight down the face blade, wetting the hair, eyebrows ...... Often after a day of military training, the top of the clothes are sweating left a strip of salty white road.
Standing posture is the first item of military training, requiring legs together, tense at the knees, hands five fingers together, clamping the body put in the pants seam, to be motionless. Military posture is often one stop is an hour, just a little rest for a while, another hour. At first okay, legs straight stood, stood for a while on the feeling of leg numbness, slightly move the body's center of gravity, a slight movement of a leg, after a while, and then change another leg. Military training class platoon leaders, this time began to "play bad", they quietly walk behind us, to see who's back hit the bend, with a belt in the back of the knee at a draw, who will have to stumble, and then they roared on the voice of "stand up straight, don't touch on the downfall! I remember in the first day of the stand in the military posture, we this stadium to participate in the military training of freshmen total **** six or seven hundred people, which even men and women fainted more than twenty people.
Next, we began the army's usual formation and movement training. "Look to the left, look to the right, report, stand at attention, march in unison, rest at ease ......" and so on one by one command we have to do seriously. Under the hot sun we formed a line, a column, repeat every order, dozens of hundreds of times to repeat the simple command, not tired, not afraid of sweat, seriously, minimize the error. However, we usually seldom contact with military training, how can we do serious and unified to perform the command? Some people in the march, the left arm and left leg at the same time, walk a lot of steps they did not feel. Some people hear the command to turn left, but the result is to turn right, and the right side of the person came to a face to face, but also say each other, you turn the wrong direction. Some people report the number in front of the person who reported that number, they have to report which number, or is more and less a number. In short, we made a lot of jokes in the process of military training, in our hard training, but also a kind of spice and relaxation.
Because we are all college freshmen, from the motherland south and north, with different habits and language, we are going to spend four years in the same window *** read, just come together fresh and very happy, meet new friends, experience a fresh sense of understanding. At the end of the training every day, we dragged the tired body together to joke, together to go to the cafeteria to play meals, tasting the food of this strange city. In the evening, our dormitory roommates chatted and played poker together, talking about their hometown anecdotes and their previous stories. The daytime military training was hard and boring, and the evening entertainment was rich and happy. I remember that time seems to be a lot more meals, night sleep is also very fast, dip the pillow to fall asleep, belong to which kind of heartless happy.
After a week of military training, one morning we started to take a break after the routine formation training, and saw a military Cherokee driving to the edge of our playground, and a few officers came down from the car, as if they were big officials. Our battalion commander here, who was in charge of military training, ran over and saluted, and they were discussing something together. A short while later, the assembly whistle sounded, we lined up and assembled, and the instructors read out the orders they had just received. It turned out that they had received a joint order from the provincial education commission in conjunction with the provincial military region, because that year was the fiftieth anniversary of the National Day, and the provincial leaders, the leaders of the education commission, and the leaders of the military region were all going to come to our school to observe the results of the military training. This is our school and the provincial military district joint training college freshmen for more than ten years since the first time to carry out such a formal and grand parade, the provincial military district attaches great importance to this activity, the provincial military district's No. 1 chief personally instructed to do a good job of this activity. The instructors naturally did not dare to slack off. Orders like a mountain, this originally feel usually training is very hard we have to meet their own parade to increase the amount of training to ensure that the last day of military training parade held successfully. My freshmen classmates almost fainted when they heard the news.
In the afternoon of that day, the instructors decided to parade which day of the parade content and the composition of the parade squad, decided to select from the freshmen among the male and female students each 50 people to form the parade squad to accept the parade, the others only to carry out the regular formation training that can. Because of my height and shape are relatively standard, the usual training is also very serious, was selected by our platoon leader recommended into the parade squad. The instructors obviously attached great importance to this parade ceremony, they concentrated the best several instructors to our squad of only fifty people, these instructors are "official rank" immediately become smaller level. Company commanders became platoon commanders, platoon commanders became squad commanders, and seven or eight pairs of critical and stern eyes stared at our squad, which numbered only half a hundred men, all day long. The other freshmen who weren't chosen to come in the parade were relieved that they were no longer training as much as before, that they had more time to rest, and that the instructors were much more lax in their demands.
Inside the parade squad, we began our intense training. We started a new round from standing at attention again, but this time, the intensity of the requirements was far greater than some time ago. We can be said to be required to stand motionless where the instructors will take the playing cards clamped on our collar, stand for half an hour is not allowed to fall down, if anyone's fall down, then sorry, pick up and come back to stand. Come back once not, then the second time, others can go to rest, not qualified not up to the standard will continue to sweat under the scorching sun, until all can meet the requirements. Then is to walk in step training, kicking to a certain height, high one inch can not, low one inch also can not, each person in front of a small bench, kicking the height of the bench just to the small bench on the bench surface, and to kick the height of this lifting foot as a habit. A platoon of seven men should have the same frequency of stride, the same size of stride, and appear to be marching in a straight line in a regular and rhythmic fashion. While we were walking in the front step, there were instructors on both sides bending down to watch our kicks all the way. First we trained one person at a time, then a platoon of seven, and finally a squad of forty-nine together.
The hot weather is often a training day, the heat tortured us exhausted. After a few days of training in this "devil" squad, some of us became physically ill, including me. Because of a long time, high-intensity military training, coupled with the hot weather, I had a fever, at first the temperature of the fever is not high, think it is heatstroke, did not pay too much attention to go to the hospital to prescribe some drugs, back to the dormitory to go to bed early and get some rest on the good. But the third day will not be able to, body chills, can not get out of bed, the mind is also very dizzy, the body temperature also rose to 38.2 degrees, lying in bed a little bit of strength is not, already can not go to the military training. At this time, there are still three days left before the parade, my classmates asked the instructors to take a leave of absence, the company commander and platoon leader in the squad came to see my situation, there is no other way but to let me rest. Fortunately, when the formation of the squad prepared more than seven or eight replacement freshmen, the impact is not too big, the squad can continue to train. However, I was turned into a substitute and generally could not participate in the final parade. At that time, I felt really big regret, I had paid so much before, prepared and trained for so long, and finally could not go on the field because of fever.
Summer colds and fevers come and go quickly, and after a full day's rest. I was basically completely healed and my energy was greatly restored. On the afternoon of the day I rested, the sudden arrival of thunderstorms in the sports field on the military training of the group poured a surprise, the day of military training ended early, our dormitory other roommates came back one by one into the "soup chicken", the whole body does not have a dry place. They also made fun of me, saying that I was lucky, God has sheltered me, so that I was less a "heavy rain drenching". The next day, basically healed, I went to participate in the normal military training, I thought, even if I am not allowed to participate in the parade, I have to insist on the last training, start and finish, from the beginning to the end I have to take it seriously. As a result, the thunderstorm the day before poured down seven or eight freshmen in our squad, and all the substitutes were on the number was still not enough. The instructors were so happy to see me return to the squad, and the company commander even came over to praise me personally. I still stood in my original platoon to participate in the military training, walking in the front step when I was still happy in my heart, really God's favor, let me participate in our school "National Day 50th anniversary of the parade" ceremony. On the penultimate day of military training, the logistics department of the military region issued a full set of Marine Corps camouflage training uniforms to our parade squad, except for the lack of insignia, there is no difference between them and the official soldier's clothing, and only our parade squad has such treatment. Now I was amazing, after wearing this real uniform, I felt I was much more spiritual and handsome again. I was the only one in our dormitory who was selected for the parade's squad, and when I went back to my dormitory at night, they all envied me my blue, white, and brown navy camouflage attire, too.
The day of the parade, September 28, 1999, came. Early in the morning, the loudspeaker in the sports field sounded the military song, where many freshmen who did not participate in the parade were busy inserting small red flags and setting up the podium. At 8:30 a.m., the police car opened the way, more than a dozen cars into the sports field, the provincial military region to a major general political commissar, followed by more than a dozen military officers, the secretary general of the Provincial Education Commission also came to support the occasion, the principal of our college party secretary and so on, all participate. Under the podium, beside the parade road, also came more than ten journalists, in the debugging of their "long guns". The large podium, a moment will be filled with people. We have long been ready to go at the entrance to the stadium to stand by.
Nine o'clock in the morning, the battalion commander in charge of our military training in military attire stood next to the microphone, announced that the parade ceremony officially began. The first item, play the national anthem. All stood up and sang the national anthem, pneumatic mountains and rivers. The second item is the leadership speech, several leaders have made a wonderful speech. The third item of the protagonist on stage, the military parade began, in the accompaniment of the August 1 military song, we march to the podium in unison. I am the first row of the parade squad No. 03, at first in the waiting time, there are some nervousness in the heart, afraid of walking the wrong pace, after the start of the walk up, stepping on the music of the drums, forget the nervousness, the heart has risen a wave of pride and excitement. In the distance from the podium there are 20 meters place, the company commander of the leader of a command, we change to do the front step forward, the leaders on the podium once again all stand up, the officers all salute. The provincial military district political commissar shouted "good comrades" and we responded in unison "good chief". "Comrades hard work", we responded "for the people". 80 steps in the front step, we passed the podium, into the march, completed the parade, next to the platoon commanders squad leaders gave us a thumbs up, to us to give recognition. Our parade squad used the results of 20 days of military training to show the quality and discipline of our college freshmen, and handed over a satisfactory answer sheet to the school and the army instructors. That night, the school in the staff restaurant for us to participate in the parade squad and all the instructors organized a "dinner", while eating while celebrating, in the middle of the restaurant is also empty a piece of open space, the school singing and dancing troupe of talented artists for us to perform a wonderful program, that night, we drank too much, it is for the more than 20 days of the A kind of venting, a kind of manly wild, but also with more than twenty days together with the instructors a kind of farewell. More than twenty days is not very long, but in together to climb and fight, the establishment of the feelings are not with time and words can be measured and described, I use the personal experience of the deep sense of comradeship.
The first time I went away for school, and it was the National Day holiday, I still decided to go home for the National Day. After the parade the next day and a few students from the same area to buy train tickets, because the National Day a few days flow too many people, we only bought a October 1 early morning transit, or station tickets. Returning to the heart of the arrow we can not care so much, can go home on the line, because of the bus time, that day more than eight o'clock in the evening we arrived at the train station, the station inside the crowd can only let us sit on the ground, chatting about the upcoming National Day military parade. At two o'clock in the morning we got on the train, standing all the way, and it was very crowded standing, after a few hours of night train bumps, in the morning of October 1 at five o'clock in my hometown train station. My home was only about a ten-minute walk from the train station, which was very close. When I opened the door of my house, my parents stood in front of me, my heart was like a bottle of five flavors, all kinds of flavors, the wandering wanderer returned home. Hurriedly ate my mother to me boiled noodles and eggs, back to the house to lie on the bed to rest. A few minutes before the National Day parade, my mother woke me up and asked me if I wanted to watch the 50th anniversary parade. Of course, I must watch it.