Taste what the officers and soldiers stationed on the plateau said most to their families——
"I'm fine on the plateau"
■Li Jianghui Yu Tong Zhao Jinshan
The same sentence is "popular" among the officers and soldiers on the plateau.
When the troops first went to the plateau for training, Li Xincheng, a communicator of the guard service company of a certain regiment of the Xinjiang Military Region, was somewhat "unsuitable."
First, there is a strong altitude sickness, dizziness and headache, weakness in limbs, every step is like stepping on cotton, and it is difficult to sleep at night; second, there is no mobile phone signal in the training area, and it is difficult for officers and soldiers to contact their homes.
As a heart-warming project, a landline in the company was used to allow officers and soldiers to contact their families.
On the day the landline was installed, Li Xincheng, who was testing the phone, dialed the home phone.
To cover up his rapid breathing, he hung up the phone after only a few words.
During the call, he said: "I'm fine on the plateau."
At that time, Li Xincheng didn't think about how he would say this sentence.
He would not have thought that for a long period of time from now on, there would be so many comrades in arms who would say this sentence through this landline.
"I'm fine on the plateau!" The regiment's command and communications company fourth-level sergeant chief Guo Guosi said to his wife more than once.
The speech is not fast, and the voice is relaxed.
Every time he talks on the phone, he will first ask about the situation at home, and when he asks, his wife will talk more.
Knowing that everything is fine at home, his hanging heart also fell to the ground.
His wife asked him about his situation, "I'm fine on the plateau!" He always said that.
His wife gave birth and he was not able to be by his side, which made him feel more guilty.
So he tried his best not to let his wife worry about him, and he had the right to be a kind of compensation.
Oxygen in the training area is thin.
Although he has been taking anti-altitude sickness medicine, he still finds that sometimes his speech is "fragmented."
Fortunately, Guo Guoxi was prepared in advance.
Before going to the plateau, he "learned the scriptures" from the veterans who had gone to the plateau.
Since then, Guo Guosi began to "adjust" himself.
When talking with his wife, he deliberately slowed down.
At the beginning, the wife was a little strange.
After a few weeks, his wife gradually got used to his "much matured" rate of speaking.
When he really reached the plateau, his efforts showed results.
Every time he finished talking on the phone with his wife, he felt a little satisfaction-he didn't let his wife notice the strangeness of his breathing.
On the way out, in places where the mobile phone has a weak signal, the guard service even the instructor Bai Cuncun often said this sentence.
Bai Cuncun and his sister Bai Yuqi are quite different in age.
Since childhood, my sister has been very "sticky" to him.
From entering the military academy to joining the army, my sister’s "stickiness" has not decreased a bit, either calling or sending WeChat.
For Bai Cuncun, this is a "happiness trouble".
Since Bai Cuncun followed the troops on the plateau, he has received fewer phone calls from his sister, and he often answered these three sentences-"How is home", "I'm fine", and "I'll be busy when I'm fine."
Compared with making phone calls, Bai Cun saves messages a bit more often, and the content is often just one sentence: "I'm pretty good on the plateau." Aside from doubt, my younger sister still feels happy: it's good for my brother to be safe.
"I don't want my family to know about the hardships of the plateau environment, so I can't let them worry about it." "But it's safe to report, lest the family worry about it." Therefore, on the sections of the plateau where there is a mobile phone signal, Bai Cuncun often chooses "quick fight". -Send a message.
Or if you were infected by other comrades in arms, it was more often from the heart and inadvertently. This sentence became "popular" among the officers and soldiers on the plateau.
"I'm fine on the plateau!" Before the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, with the help of the regiment's video conferencing system, Wang Bin, the fourth-level sergeant and gunner of the regiment's firepower battalion, saw his parents, wives and children he hadn't seen for a long time.
Looking at the smiling faces of his parents, and feeling the joy that his 6-year-old son was the first place in the class, Wang Bin was very happy.
In this kind of happiness, there is both the joy of "reunion" with relatives, and there is also a kind of sincere self-satisfaction-the previous "homework" was not done in vain.
Due to long-term dealings with artillery, the oil on Wang Bin's hands has penetrated into the cracks in his fingers.
In the wind and sun, his cheeks gradually became "highland red".
You don't have to take these into account when you make a call, but this time, the group organized a remote video call, so you shouldn't be "exposed".
Before going to the video conference room, Wang Bin made a pot of warm water, dipped his hands with hand sanitizer, rubbed it carefully, and deliberately took out the distributed plateau skin cream and applied a thin layer on his face.
After that, he wore a straight hat and strode to the remote video camera...
The plateau is like an accelerator. Many recruits grow up suddenly when they say this.
"I'm pretty good on the plateau!" Deng Weiqi, the third battalion fire company sergeant of the regiment, once thought that he could not say this to his mother in a sincere and ordinary tone.
At that time, when he answered his mother's phone, he often had a kind of rebellious psychology-after Guojue said the only sentence, he hung up the phone involuntarily.
In August, Weihai, Shandong.
Deng Weiqi's mother, Sun Shufen, put away the dishes after dinner.
At this time, the song "Return of Target Shooting" came from the mobile phone-it was the exclusive ringtone set by the mother for the son.
Hearing that his son said that he had scored all ten rounds in the mortar assessment organized by the military region, Sun Shufen smiled and wiped out tears: his son has grown up all of a sudden.
The change happened after going to the plateau.
Like other comrades in arms, Deng Weiqi was “entangled” by altitude sickness as soon as he went up the mountain.
The state of being asleep makes him very uncomfortable.
Listening to the conversations between his comrades-in-arms and their mothers, and feeling the love when the mothers repeatedly told him, Deng Weiqi suddenly felt homesick.
But at this time, Deng Weiqi realized that his mother called fewer calls.
When her mother called again, Deng Weiqi began to quietly listen to her mother, and from time to time he responded a few words.
At that time, he suddenly felt that his mother's "talking" was so warm and caring.
The talk time was not long. When I hung up the phone, my mother casually said: "I know I'm nagging, and I'm trying my best to change it." This made Deng Weiqi's heart sour.
Thinking of the big picture of himself in military uniform in the photo frame at home, and the mobile phone screen where his mother used his picture as the wallpaper, Deng Weiqi has understood her mother since then.
Once, my mother accidentally mentioned that the People's Armed Forces came to a neighboring village to send a good news.
"I also want my mother to feel this glory!" Putting down the phone, Deng Weiqi started his "soldier assault."
As a result, there were ten shots and ten hits in this mortar assessment.
Of course, Sun Shufen didn't know Deng Weiqi's efforts to this end. This is also a topic that Deng Weiqi has been deliberately avoiding.
The allotment of a new type of mortar made Deng Weiqi and his comrades press the fast forward button for training.
The training intensity is very high during the day, and at night, Deng Weiqi does not forget to "supplement" for herself-repeatedly pondering the "temper" of the new mortar.
When encountering strong winds, Deng Weiqi got even more vigorous, practicing his gun maneuvers over and over again, pondering the impact of wind speed on shooting accuracy.
During that time, his face was burned by ultraviolet rays, and his fingers were cut.
After continuous exploration and practice, Deng Weiqi finally overcome the difficulties.
"The plateau is like an accelerator. Many recruits said,'I'm fine on the plateau,' and suddenly they grew up." Yang Xiaogang, political commissar of the regiment said: "This is also the feeling of many cadres."
As a cadre who has just left the military academy, Hu Jizhonghan, the new platoon leader of the engineering defense company of the regiment, feels that there is "a process" for him to adapt to the army.
He lacks the experience of leading soldiers at the grassroots level, and he is worried about not handling the relationship with the soldiers.
But when talking with his family, he never mentioned these, but often said, "I'm pretty good on the plateau."
A flood fight on the plateau made his growth suddenly "joint".
Faced with the sudden flood, Hu Jizhonghan led the vanguard of party members to the front.
The night was like ink, unable to distinguish the bottom of the embankment, Hu Jizhonghan had no time to wear waterproof pants, and took the lead to jump into the water to find a gap.
The cold water of the river, coupled with excessive movements, made him pant more urgently, and even stared at the stars.
When the danger was eliminated, it was close to 5 pm, Hu Jizhonghan was exhausted.
A soldier brought a pair of dry shoes and handed it to him.
Since then, the company commander Zhao Yutao discovered that the relationship between the soldiers and Hu Jizhonghan was suddenly close.
"Mom should like me more!" When the police officer Gao Yuan said this, his eyes were full of confidence.
After the troops were stationed on the plateau, Gao Yuan seemed to change suddenly.
Now he is not only a "little instructor" in the platoon physical training team, he often takes the initiative to extend a helping hand to his comrades in high-intensity training.
But before going to the plateau, Gao Yuan's training results were not outstanding.
"To some extent, it is the plateau that has made great achievements." Zhang Daoxin, the commander of the guard service company, said that the plateau environment is almost new to all of us.
This new environment objectively sets a new starting line for officers and soldiers.
Gao Yuan is the kind of fighter who has seized the opportunity.
Mountain climbing, three-kilometer weight-bearing physical training... Gao Yuan persevered with the discomfort caused by altitude sickness every day, and finally “stepped on the plateau”.
Gao Yuan said: "Here, I found confidence."
Like many comrades in arms, Gao Yuan is only willing to share the fruits of his efforts with his family when talking.
Regarding the hardships they have experienced, most of them still said, "I'm pretty good on the plateau!"
This phenomenon, Zeng Quan, a battalion instructor of the regiment, believes that it reflects the growth and transformation of officers and soldiers.
He is even more happy that such a change is happening to more comrades in arms.
The deep meaning of this sentence is to reassure the family and the motherland.
"Beside the boundary monument, stand with the red willow on the side of the road. Like the red willow, I deeply rooted into the soil on the border. Like me, the red willow has never shrunk. From spring and summer to autumn and winter, it cannot be covered by the green color. The red that lives has gradually filled my heart."
I don't know why, when I saw these poems written by a soldier for the first time, Yang Xiaogang, the regiment's political commissar, felt hot.
The plateau tamarisk is very common, but it represents a kind of spirit and a kind of pursuit.
The officers and soldiers stationed on the plateau can share very little with their families. Their efforts and dedication are out of the sight of their relatives, but they never stop.
How similar the two are!
Sometimes, what people deliberately emphasize is often because they don't have it yet.
This sentence obviously also applies to the situation when the officers and soldiers who are new to the plateau say "I am pretty good on the plateau."
This is a daily patrol.
When the sky was bright, the regiment's air defense company sergeant Shi Qiang and his comrades put on their gear and set off.
Starting from the camp, climb a steep ladder of 1 kilometer, then climb a steep slope of more than 100 meters, and then the normal section.
In the plains, this is just a matter of raising one's feet.
But on the plateau at an altitude of 5,000 meters, everything changed.
Shi Qiang still remembers the initial situation.
As soon as I left the camp, the wind was strong, and every step was strenuous.
When climbing the steep ladder, several recruits were obviously exhausted and had to stop to take oxygen every few steps and then move on.
When climbing a steep slope, Shi Qiang first reached the top of the slope and dropped a rope.
The soldiers climbed by pulling the rope, panting "like a bellows in their throat", but still "feeling something stuffed in their throat" and couldn't breathe too much oxygen.
Sanying Firepower even remembered running on the plateau at the beginning: "The chest is too tight, and it's too uncomfortable." At that time, the strong ultraviolet rays and the painful wind and sand were not a problem. When he ran down, he only felt weak and weak, and he could only bend over and pant with his hands on his legs.
As a coach for confrontation training, the regiment's reconnaissance company sergeant Wang Yong has experienced the difficulty of "teaching."
After an instruction was over, he asked everyone if they remembered the relevant moves, and the officers and soldiers said they remembered them.
But after a meal, the officers and soldiers "returned" all these contents to him.
The high altitude hypoxia caused the officers and soldiers to lose their memory.
The officers and soldiers only rely on diligent training to consolidate, and then turn it into muscle memory.
On the plateau, no one wants to tell their relatives about their illness.
Before the regiment's sergeant Yang Chen went to the plateau, his family repeatedly told him not to catch a cold on the plateau!
He did not expect that he was the first person in the company to catch a cold after going to the plateau.
Weakness, headache, suffocation... all kinds of discomfort were brought to Yang Chen.
He was very weak because of illness, and the quilt he usually covered made him feel like a mountain pressed against him.
Every time I turn over, I have a splitting headache.
He barely fell asleep, and his breathing was awake again.
At that time, his psychological fear was greater than his physical pain.
The words of the military doctor Tang Li made him feel relieved-this is just a common flu, just cooperate with the treatment, and it doesn't matter.
Fortunately, all this has changed over time.
Now, after adjustments, the officers and soldiers have begun to "live in peace" with the plateau, and all kinds of discomfort have alleviated a lot.
On that day, after recovering from a serious illness, Yang Chen opened the door of the tent and looked at the dazzling sunlight reflecting off the snow-capped mountains outside the house. He suddenly felt a sense of "rebirth".
This process was accompanied by many thoughts by the officers and soldiers.
"Why are we here?" is a question that most officers and soldiers have thought about.
"Because our feet are the land, the borders in front of us, peace is guarded, they are something more precious than life." This answer is now deeply engraved in the hearts of officers and soldiers.
More officers and soldiers are responding with actions: Corporal Cui Zhiyong once wanted to retire as soon as possible to take care of his parents, but now he decides to continue serving; sentry Zhang Yawei, a soldier who always liked to sit on his father's shoulders when he was a child, now stands in Ka On Lakoram Mountain, he must "stand as a living boundary marker"; facing the proposal of his family to persuade him to change career, Wang Bin, the fourth-ranking sergeant commander, said solemnly: "Really, I'm fine now!" He chose to stick to it. it's here.
"The officers and soldiers began to have a deeper understanding of the concepts of'sacred mission' and'responsibility', and regarded the needs of the motherland as their highest value pursuit." Yang Xiaogang told the author: "From reassuring family members to reassuring the motherland, Our officers and soldiers are completing a new spiritual leap."
"Only love and faith are invincible." The team's achievements can prove it.
Since going to the plateau for training, the officers and soldiers of the regiment have ranked first in the overall performance of the military training assessment organized by the military region. Among them, the scores of mortar and anti-tank rocket live ammunition are both the first; the mass training organized in the division In the competition, the officers and soldiers of the regiment won the first place in the competition of 17 subjects.
"Don't worry, mother, don't worry about the motherland. I'm fine on the plateau..." This is the voice of the regiment's officers and soldiers.
One sentence condensed the national conditions of the family
■Niu Chengmeng
On the plateau of four to five kilometers above sea level, it is inaccessible and vast.
Most of the time, officers and soldiers stationed or trained on the plateau had to endure the test of severe cold and lack of oxygen.
For happiness, the understanding of plateau soldiers is no different from that of all of us.
They want to accompany their parents and take care of their elderly relatives as much as they can; they want to stand at the school gate when school is over and extend their arms to the children who are running towards them; they want to early for their one-year-old children Prepare a birthday cake and don't miss every step of the child's growth; they want to cook a hot meal for the family, and they can serve the table when everyone is seated... In their eyes, this is happiness.
However, even such ordinary and ordinary happiness is an extravagant hope for them.
Because, on their shoulders, the first thing they must carry is the peace and tranquility of one country.
Guarding for the motherland, riding on the ice, stepping on the snow, and eating in the open air; high-intensity training, constantly challenging the limit; high cold and lack of oxygen, overnight chills, hard to sleep... These, plateau officers and soldiers rarely mentioned to their families.
On the one hand, for them, this is part of their daily work and training, as pure as they feel that paying for their loved ones is taken for granted; All the hardships I have endured are in my heart one by one.
The air in the plateau is thin, but the love of the officers and soldiers is condensed.
Just as the color of the red willow will be darker and more brilliant once it encounters the rain, the officers and soldiers of the plateau always use the few opportunities to express their love for their families.
This expression of love is very subtle and not easy to be noticed.
If you don’t say it, no one will know that the fourth-level sergeant chief Guo Guosi estimates the birth time of the child in his mind whenever he has time, and pre-appoints thirty or forty names for the child; if he does not say it, no one knows, superior soldier. Yang Wenle always talks with his family for a short time, but his diary is full of thoughts about his family.
"I'm fine on the plateau" is the most common phrase used by officers and soldiers when communicating with their families.
In this simple sentence, there may be a warm response to the parents, or a sincere love for his wife, or an infinite gratitude for his loved ones to support his work.
This sentence also embodies responsibility, reflects a clear understanding of the burdens on one's shoulders, and shows that he will continue to stand firm on the plateau.
"The family is the smallest country, and the country is tens of thousands." It is this kind of family-nation sentiment that makes the officers and soldiers more determined and calm in the choice of choice.
"Loyalty is the greatest filial piety." It is precisely because of this kind of family and country feelings that countless officers and soldiers are more conscious and have no regrets in their dedication and dedication.