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22125883 2010 年 05 月 05 日 22:22 Reading (loading. ..) Comments (0) Category: Personal Diary
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Dong Lei, retired lieutenant colonel
one, sir, your meals are seven dollars
a base to visit the U.S., according to pre-arranged trip, after visiting the base commander invited us to lunch, accompanied by several U.S. military officers.
lunch is held at the base of a guest house. Lunch is very simple, a vegetable salad, one each from the point of the staple food, a dessert, and coffee. Although we do not like western people, but the two chat, chat even joy.
drinking coffee came a sergeant on the base commander, said the sentence: Executive, your meal is seven dollars per person. Commander listened, took out his wallet, took out seven dollars, the other officers have also pulled out a wallet and some change each other, was referred to the sergeant's hands. [This army will be invincible! ]
Seeing our men looked at each other, I do not know what had happened.
I also took out money to everyone in the delegation paid a meal together.
American delegation of the move to our entire meal feeling a lot. In our food culture will not happen in the scene.
First, should the owner of the banquet guests,
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Second, in China you can not see the leadership table, pay, pay is always subordinate to do (there will certainly be under the rushing pay.)
Third, Gongsifenming, belong to the government's money can not move, every dollar of their own will also clearly calculated.
Fourth, the food is just a communication forum to talk about the focus, rather than what to eat.
Later, we went to a number of U.S. troops, Wherever he went to their cafeteria meals are. To the company cafeteria to eat when the soldiers, each of us to pay a dollar, but eat buffet, the variety is rich, the food company than we are much better. In order to prevent nutrition and obesity (the U.S., there are strict limits on weight), will be marked on each type of food that the food contains calories.
Another time, I live in the U.S., a guest house, the night thirsty, open the fridge to drink a can of Coke. The next morning to leave the barracks to the next stop. When the car faster, guest houses, a sergeant ran for Wu Wu: Executive, you drink a can of Coke, please pay a dollar. Let me exceedingly embarrassing.
sixteen years, as the headquarters of the officer, I have been to many of our troops, ate many meals, drink a lot of wine Xu, back over many native, and within two years, put my weight improved three pounds. But I never pay a penny, seems to have had no one I dig their own pockets.
Second, holding the hands of generals
often ask ourselves where the gap with the U.S.? In addition to equipment, technology gap, the gap between people's quality I think the most critical. The people most apparent in the gap size on the officer.
throughout the United States you can see for obese people. U.S. military barracks in no exception, but are civilians. All U.S. military personnel, both officers and soldiers, rarely see obese. Officers Junzi tall, covered with a trace of lean. In China's cities, you can see fat head and belly of the soldiers, who presented the whole feeling of falling, I was once a member of them, but my only advantage is that when I was in uniform always stand straight .
U.S. military to maintain this status because of the system come from the elimination of obesity in the U.S.. U.S. military officers have a special shape standards, once the officers exceed the prescribed standard weight,
la lights, you will be warned and asked to deadline for correction, rectification and still not up to standard, he can not continue to serve in the military. Vice Minister of the former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arthur was nominated for a four-star U.S. Pacific commander, but because of his weight over the provisions of the Senate failed to pass the examination, the results were ordered to take early retirement.
the U.S. military the sole purpose of this measure is to maintain combat effectiveness, because the U.S. military to fight all the time. So in the U.S. military, whether in the Pentagon, or in the logistics base, every afternoon you can see the soldiers in the running. In the famous 101 air assault division, I saw U.S. combat troops in daily training, most of our troops than the training intensity is much greater. So I see that the U.S. military people are very strong physically, General is no exception. Each time out to open an international conference, I will bring running shoes, because the day after the meeting, I will see the gym in the hotel the U.S. military officers, where I share with them new, and sometimes I will and their ran out together for a while.
such a thing does not happen in China, for our first criterion is measured by military officers loyal to (not necessarily the country), combat is not very important. In 2002, we also have their own physical fitness standards, but only before the age of 40 officers required by combat forces, but who knows how much can implement. Into the Defense Department ever since after sixteen years, I no longer seem to have participated in the training of troops. If one day, we met with the U.S. military on the battlefield, cast aside the gap is not equipped, we can laugh at America's
three, sir, your direction of escape is 10
California desert called Las Vegas a ############. Not far away from the ############ there is a very important U.S. military bases - Fort Irwin. It is the U.S. military's National Training Center (National Training Center, referred to as NTC). The former is a lot of Chinese people, including our longing for the place of official delegations, which very few people go.
as interpreter, I followed our delegation first went to Las Vegas tour, went after the Fort Irwin. Fort Irwin
coverage of very large radius of more than two thousand square kilometers, are completely in the desert. U.S. military forces are here for two antagonistic military exercises, we see the exercise.
Ministry director at the base of a simple visit, to understand about the current status of red and blue armies of the confrontation, the next step to desert the U.S. military arranged for us to exercise on-site visit. Base director, each of us with the U.S. Army's temporary camouflage and body armor, as well as goggles helmets and desert colors. We saw,
la gear sale, we know these things are just back from the front line exercises off the U.S. troops who not only looked a bit dirty, shake a lot of sand to fall out also. Dressed later, we had diarrhea, two nostrils and down to reveal. Soon as they hear a helicopter, we can not help but head up the brow wrinkled. This is a very familiar brow, because I have seen many Chinese general heard that after the helicopter had to take such a brow furrowed. We do not take the helicopter has become a military delegation to visit all the time an unwritten rule, because there will be a year of Chengdu Military Region Deputy Commander and other senior military officers, a helicopter crash.
but in foreign army helicopter to visit troops is a common practice, because the helicopter efficient and convenient,
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Soon, two U.S. military helicopters came. The driver was a U.S. soldier (our helicopter pilots are officers up to colonel rank) jumped from a helicopter, to get our set together, a huge roar in the beginning to us the opportunity in the notes, speaking of After some basic precautions, he suddenly said to us: If the aircraft is in flight forced to land in the middle of an accident if you sit in the position of Executive's escape from the direction of the clock 2:00, 4:00, 6:00 and 10 points. He also stressed to me again: Sir, your direction is 10 points away.
These words surprised me.
in our media coverage, the U.S. military is often the accident, in addition to a variety of frequent reports of the scandal, the flight is we often focus on accident reports. But in fact, the U.S. military's accident rate is not high, it may be lower than we are. Because of very frequent use of U.S. military equipment, aircraft landing gear views very much, so the probability of an accident greatly increases. In order to ensure the reduction of military expenditure and, in particular, to ensure that no accidents will be as much as possible not to use the equipment, we have a very small amount of training troops, and our bullets are separate.
dare to engage the U.S. military training, on the one hand because it rich. But the key lies in its training philosophy, no unworthy. Dongbing impossible not wounded. But think of the danger ahead and take measures to minimize risk.
air leakage around the helicopter in the sky for a long time, and finally landed in the desert. Sand from the endless rotary wing long ago I lost the ability to identify direction. By faint yellow goggles, I saw two Hummer jeeps pulling dust convertible coming to us.
Hummer off-road performance is indeed well-deserved reputation, large low-lying rocky body in the desert sand on the Jishi, the wind rolled up sand and stones keep falling on our helmets,
la gears, goggles and bulletproof clothing, the issue of crackling sound. Sitting on the plate, people continue to be bumps toss. Last Hummer toward a hillside away, more and more steep mountain, so I feel like a highly skewed to overturn. However, toward the top of the hill climbing Hummer persistent, and finally climbed up a hill. Condescending, we can see the overview the training field.
stood top of the hill, we do not see the imagination of the armed forces fighting scenes. Occasionally heard in the distance the roar of guns and fighter planes. We often see on national television so-called large-scale exercise. Not so much exercise, as it is the parade, is well-rehearsed performances in the show. Exercise in the real field, is rarely seen forces, as troops scattered in a vast area, naval and air exercises span is larger. Fort Irwin, the director only in the hall where we can see the specific circumstances of the participating forces. In Fort Irwin, all personal weapons and heavy equipment have been installed laser (receiver) device, GPS global positioning system, integrated the Army, through its advanced laser combat system, able to kill, kill, destroy the time, place and extent of provision of more accurate information, but also for nuclear warheads, chemical weapons, air BoB!!! [Note: bomb bomb], and to assess the effect of anti-landmines. Ministry director at the base, staff officers gave us a presentation on the computer.
advanced hardware facilities at Fort Irwin is not the most proud of the wealth. There really proud that the U.S. is that they create an imaginary enemy well - the Red Army. The force due to realistic simulation of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, named after the Red Army. It is the U.S. Army's elite. U.S. Army brigade coming every eighteen months at Fort Irwin, marked with the battle force, in most cases are defeated, because this almost every day the Red Army with a different enemy. Here there is a large contingent of the guide adjusting member (equivalent to the referee), they force commanders at all levels by the line composed of one to one corresponding to eye level of the participating forces commander, recording them in the whole process of the exercise command of the situation. Finally, they will give harsh assessments. The end of exercise, participating forces leave, they will take video and thick commented assessment data. Eighteen months later, they will once again usher in the defeat of Fort Irwin.
the U.S. military to fight every day, both at home and abroad.
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