Continuously improve combat capabilities, field training may be more "self-inflicted"
2024-08-12
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Field training may be more like "seeking hardship"
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We are currently in the period of field training. To continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of training within a limited time and under relatively difficult conditions, we must endure hardships ourselves.
Since ancient times, military life has been full of hardships and dangers, and soldiers have rarely been at ease. Hardship is an intuitive description of environmental conditions, situations and tasks; seeking hardship is a positive attitude of being enterprising, responsible and striving for progress. Seeking hardship is a training choice that takes pleasure in hardship and puts pressure on oneself. Today, when equipment levels are constantly improving and training support is continuously improving, why do we still need to seek hardship more during field training? This is because it contains the dialectics of training and combat: suffer more hardship in training today, and suffer less hardship in actual combat tomorrow.
If training is difficult, advancing is easy; if training is easy, advancing is difficult. On the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, "sharpshooter" Zhang Taofang used 436 bullets to kill and wound 214 enemies in 32 days. This was inseparable from his hard work in learning shooting skills and sniping techniques, and carefully studying sniping methods and the enemy's activity patterns; "the most beautiful revolutionary soldier of the new era" Chen Song mastered 18 professions and 12 types of weapons and equipment in just over a year, which was inseparable from his hard work in operating and commanding in the tank in the scorching heat and severe cold. To cope with future high-end wars, our army still needs to base itself on the most difficult battlefield conditions and make the most solid training preparations. In field training, more self-seeking, active crossing of the "comfort zone" and breaking through the "limit value" can be invincible in the contest with strong enemies.
The key to seeking hardship is to “seek it yourself”. With the continuous correction of the practical training orientation in recent years, the majority of officers and soldiers can actively face the hardships of the environment, pressure and fatigue during field training. However, some officers and soldiers still have misunderstandings about increasing the difficulty and intensity of field training: some believe that future wars will mainly be a competition of new equipment, and the more advanced the equipment, the greater the chance of winning, and field training does not need to be so difficult; some believe that field training itself “fights the wind and sand and the scorching heat, and eats two taels of soil a day”, so there is no need to seek hardship... All these undoubtedly underestimate and narrow the connotation and role of field training.
Seeking hardship on oneself means that the time and energy invested in training are visible, but at a deeper level, it means changes in training orientation and standards. Training is a rehearsal for future wars, and field training is the most systematic training that is close to actual combat. Whether it is harsh environmental conditions, a powerful simulated blue army, or a dangerous situation in confrontation, they all point to actual combat standards and aim to defeat the enemy. If you seek hardship more in the natural environment, you will have more diverse means of survival; if you seek hardship more in actual combat conditions, you will have more flexible ways of responding; if you seek hardship more under the pressure of your opponent, your winning tactics will be more solid.
The generation of combat effectiveness has its own inherent laws. Advocating more self-inflicted hardships in field training does not mean blindly increasing the difficulty and intensity of training, but rather seeking the organic unity of scientific training and hard training. Otherwise, blindly pursuing "high difficulty and danger" and strengthening "hardship in hardship" will not only disrupt the normal training order of the troops, but also easily cause training injuries and even training accidents. All units should strictly follow the requirements of the training syllabus, combine the actual situation of officers and soldiers, reasonably set training conditions, determine training goals, and guide officers and soldiers to continuously temper and improve their actual combat capabilities in a step-by-step and self-challenging manner. In this way, we can make up for the hardships and enjoy the sweetness in the hardships, so as to be prepared for any eventuality and defeat the enemy.
(Source: China Military Network-Liberation Army Daily)
