Their graduation test is a real missile
At dawn on July 30, a training ground was completely silent, and the chill was pressing. With three red flare flares across the sky, a steel dragon-like convoy snaked towards the position, and the large equipment vehicles covered with camouflage nets rumbling loudly, awakened the reckless mountains.
"Occupy the position!" "Erect the missile!"
The commands and responses from the wireless communication device are very young. Proudly pointing to the huge missile in the sky, busy trainee trumpeters carrying "a bar" on their shoulders.
"Huashan, No. 300 requests ignition!" The countdown to the launch, the position trumpeter issued a request to the command post.
The command post responded: "No. 300 fires!"
"Ignite!" With an order from Rocket Army Engineering University student and No. 0 command trumpeter Wang Haicheng, a dark green missile roared open the sky and galloped toward the preset target area. After tens of seconds, the missiles standing on the other launch site "fired" into the air.
"Ignition successful!" "Separation is normal!" "Flight is normal!" "Telemetry tracking is normal!" "Warhead detonated!"
News came from the end zone: the missile hit the target accurately!
The trumpeters rushed out of the bunker, cheering, embracing and crying. On the campus of the Rocket Army Engineering University, thousands of kilometers away, students and their families watched the launch process synchronously from the electronic screen. The news that multiple missiles accurately hit the target came and the campus was full of joy.
Looking at the white cloud trajectories across the sky, Li Hua, the principal of the school who was in command at the scene, said: “Organizing trainees to launch live ammunition will help trainees shorten the'run-in period' for future grassroots positions and pass the school gate to the camp gate. 'The last mile'."
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The actual launch of missiles is the highest form of training for the Rocket Army, and it is also the highest platform for academies to organize actual combat teaching activities. After just hitting the first live ammunition in his life, graduate student Wang Haicheng said excitedly: "After this live ammunition launch mission, I have a very deep understanding of the rigor and meticulousness of each position in the Rocket Army, especially the stability and reliability."
Like Wang Haicheng, hundreds of young students near graduation from the school experienced the actual combat readiness training requirements of front-line combat troops in a full-element, full-process training environment, and handed over a qualified graduation at the missile launch site. Answer paper.
Rocket Force Engineering University is an institution of higher learning in my country that cultivates commanding and technical personnel for strategic missile forces. In the school history museum, the school’s school history hall displays the missile wreckage left by the school’s first graduating students to the Northwest Plateau for a live-fire launch mission in 2006.
Since then, the school has continued to increase its teaching transformation efforts, targeting the actual combat needs of the troops, and taking the lead in taking the new road of large-scale missile actual deployment synthetic exercises. By putting the students in actual combat, they can experience the operation of the troops in wartime. The model effectively promotes the transformation of trainees into combatants, and realizes the seamless connection between the training of college talents and future combat needs.
In the smoke-filled launch site, the commander-in-chief and deputy political commissar Cao Zhibin of the school said before the mission that in recent years, the school has set up a team that means "towing the east wind and holding the long sword" every year during the graduation season. The "Dongfeng Missile Brigade" of the People's Republic of China has exercised practical skills in the training of its trainees during the launch process.
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic this year, the school’s graduating students did not return to the campus until May. The preparation time for the live ammunition launch mission was more than a month shorter than in previous years. Wang Xingli, who served as the brigade commander of the Dongfeng Missile First Brigade, served as the brigade commander of the combat unit for 8 years and has rich experience in actual combat training.
Under the proposal of Brigadier Wang Xingli, the Dongfeng Missile Brigade’s "group of people" researched and decided to study and determine the position in advance, so that the trainees could use the isolation time at school to memorize the familiar rules and adopt "personnel self-training, mixed grouping, and rolling rotation , The whole process of assessment, selection and selection" method, organize multiple professional integration and parallel training.
"Familiar with the equipment in the morning, the assessment in the afternoon, and all the assessments passed." On June 1, the Dongfeng Missile Brigade organized an assessment. Wang Xuemei, director of the Dongfeng Missile Brigade's technical office, as one of the main examiners, was very satisfied with the students' performance.
This year is the tenth time that the school has carried out a live ammunition launch mission. Wang Xuemei has participated in seven times. “Through live ammunition launch missions, students of major warfare majors will be familiar with the entire application process of missile weapon systems and understand their needs for the protection profession. Comprehensive application of relevant knowledge is very beneficial."
Wang Xuemei said that letting the trainees become trumpeters and commanders will allow them to experience how to become an excellent trumpeter in the process. "Including communication with some old squad leaders, it has laid a foundation for the students to love, understand and lead soldiers in the army in the future."
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In this year's graduation live ammunition launch mission, there are also 6 heroic female students.
"Are you willing to form a female launch team to complete the live ammunition launch mission?" One week after the 4 launch teams were established, Wang Xuemei, director of the technical office, came to the technical camp and invited 6 female students majoring in launch engineering to form another launch team.
The female students became more and more excited when they had the opportunity to send the rocket to the sky by their own hands.
With the new rules, every trumpet player starts from scratch. Upon entering the launch battalion for the first time, Li Rujing, a female student as the commander of No. 0, was under great pressure. In order to improve himself quickly and successfully complete the live ammunition launch mission, Li Rujing did not meet the requirements of the completion procedures and set a higher standard for himself, "not only must be able to operate, but also understand all the requirements of the number position."
"As a commander of the launcher, we should not let our launcher be unchained, and should not be worse than the male student in any link or anywhere." Li Rujing slammed.
"During the process of pondering the launch process, they learned in detail about the use of the weapon system, and also thought about how to optimize it. This will lay a solid foundation for their first job." Li Rujing's performance made Professor Wang Xuemei admirable.
Zhao Yiping, a female student from Qinghai, is small, cheerful, quick-spoken and quick-handed. After being incorporated into the launch unit, she served as a test and launch control trumpeter and became the "golden finger" for missile launches. At the beginning of the operation training, Zhao Yiping was blindly fast and "not caring enough" for the equipment. For example, he often used too much force when plugging and unplugging the power supply.
"It is very important to control the important weapons of a big country." During the training process, the instructor Wang Xuemei's teaching was rigorous and gentle. "Yiping, you should be slow. Every operation must be precise and the technique must be in place..."
Zhao Yiping, who used to be an instructor in the school history museum, remembered the scene when the school was short of real equipment in the early days of the school, and everyone used hemp rope and cardboard to carry out training. "Each component is an important part of the Great Power Heavy Equipment, and needs to be cared for with life." After participating in the training, she would first speak the password before making the action, "always remind myself to be slow and steady."
After confirming that their team is responsible for car No. 5, Zhao Yiping would say three times in his heart every time before boarding: "Car No. 5, I love you." After hard training, Zhao Yiping eventually grew into "Don’t make mistakes." One action" gold medalist.
Since there is only one set of training equipment for a certain type of missile, five launch units have been set up, and the five launch platoons can "replace people without changing horses" for joint training. Female student Li Conghui was a little afraid of heights. When she chose the number position, she chose the position of aiming the trumpeter. However, this relatively independent number also needs to board the launch vehicle to remove the camouflage for the missile. She often used training bombs in other teams to train, ran to the launch vehicle to practice boarding, and slowly overcame her fear of heights during repeated training.
"With ears and eyes, you can aim and hit accurately." Professor Wang Xuemei praised Li Conghui's name for meeting the requirements of Rocket Army trumpeters.
One more team will have more competitive pressure. After the newly formed team of 6 female students and 3 fighters entered the launch camp, it immediately triggered the "catfish effect." The male team trained more hard, for fear of being compared by female students in terms of operational skills or training style.
The launch team of female trainees was established more than a week later than the team of male trainees, but the female trainees did not let their eyebrows be shaken. Their simulation operation and actual installation operation were carried out simultaneously, and two people did the manual work that one person could not do. In the end, the women's launch team came to the fore in the assessment and got the missile launch right.
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"Going out!" After less than a hundred days of intensive training, the school's graduating students ushered in a bright moment: cross-regional maneuvering, camouflage protection, field camping...the soldiers moved westward, and they successfully arrived at the plateau training ground.
The rising sun, the morning glow filled the missile launch positions, and the launch day zero finally arrived. Occupying the position, erecting the show car, turning the bomb to aim...the launch entered the 5-minute countdown, and everyone's eyes focused on the "Dragon".
With a "fire" command, student Guo Qifeng pressed the red button with his right thumb. A few seconds later, accompanied by a huge roar, the missile rose into the air, like a roaring "green dragon", jetting flames straight into the sky. At the launch site, the ground was shaking, and the air seemed to be torn apart.
The trumpeters stared intently at the "dragon" ascending into the sky and into the clouds, until the thick tail flame also dissipated in the clouds. "The missile hit the target!" A few minutes later, a good news came from the combat command hall. Looking at the missile launcher as the "origin", the students scattered in the remote bunker ran over, and the instructors guarding the observation safe area also rushed over. People gathered in front of the surviving launcher vehicle and hugged tightly. , Cheering and jumping.
"People are at the launch site, and the heart follows the missile." On the way from the launch site back to the camp area, Li Rujing, the commander of a launch unit, said that compared to the improvement of organizational command, installation operation, and overall grasp of the overall situation, the launch of live ammunition is better. The big gain is the "growth of the heart": "Looking at the mighty missiles for nine days, the sense of mission that is closely connected to the motherland is particularly profound."
It is worth mentioning that as a member of the backup team, every student has put in the same effort. Only in the last 5 minutes, they failed to fire. When the main fight successfully launched the missile into the air, these young men who usually shed blood, sweat and did not shed tears had red eyes.
After the completion of multiple live ammunition launch missions, the graduate students will soon go to the Rocket Army’s missile barracks. The brigade commander Wang Xingli said that the actual combat-oriented practice teaching platform not only honed the trainees, but also laid a solid foundation for the trainees to take up positions in the frontline troops. "These'strengthening students' stepped out of the school gate and entered the camp gate, with the enthusiasm to devote themselves to the grassroots, and will create their own'wonderful trajectories' in different positions."
Zhong Fuming and Deng Dongrui Source: China Youth Daily