On the eve of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, the hometown of Chen Yu, the squad leader of the women's drone squad, received the "Second-Class Hero's Home" plaque sent by the army and the local party and government agencies, and the neighbors praised it.
Last year, female soldier Chen Yu piloted a new type of drone to successfully complete a cross-sea real investigation flight, taking the lead in completing the first flight mission in the army in the theater, and was awarded second-class personal merit.
Chinese sons and daughters have many ambitions, and they don't like red clothes and love armed forces.
Nowadays, more and more outstanding female soldiers like Chen Yu are emerging in the front line of the army.
With the adjustment of the size and structure of the army and the development of weapons and equipment, the "she" force in the barracks has continued to expand, moving from a security post to the front line of operations, controlling modern high-tech weapons, and exerting its unique advantages and strengths.
Embrace the moon on nine days
"Don't be obsessed with elder sister, elder sister is just a fighter jet"
"Don't be obsessed with my sister, she is just a fighter pilot" - a joke by Sheng Yifei, one of China's first female fighter pilots, which inadvertently became an internet buzzword back then.
Sheng Yifei speaks lightly, and the "surging winds" that she has experienced are beyond the comprehension of most people.
Flying has long been the domain of men.
Female pilots are very rare, and female fighter pilots can be described as "the arrogant woman of heaven".
Since the Chinese Air Force recruited the first batch of female pilots in 1951, it has trained more than 300 female pilots in more than 50 years, but they are all engaged in the work of transport aircraft, helicopter pilots and air pilots, and no women have ever tried fighter jets.
In 2005, the Chinese Air Force decided to recruit the eighth batch of female pilots and selected the first batch of female fighter pilots.
The background at that time was that the United States, Britain, Germany, Russia, South Korea, etc. had already had female fighter pilots, and the United States even had dozens of female fighter pilots, including heavy air combat aircraft such as the F-16.
The Chinese Air Force does not have its own female fighter pilots, which is not commensurate with the status of the air force of a major country.
That year, 200,000 people nationwide signed up to recruit female pilots.
However, the selection of female fighter pilots is extremely strict. There are 116 physical examinations only, and only 35 people have passed the strict physical examination and assessment.
However, a bigger challenge is yet to come - "elimination of the whole process" is like a curse, which makes their dream journey difficult.
Sheng Yifei said she "doesn't want to be eliminated without even touching the plane".
No matter how strong the wind was or how cold the weather was, how many times she was on the verge of collapse, she gritted her teeth and insisted.
The fighter is to face the enemy plane to fight, and the fighter pilot must pass the anti-overload training.
Overload refers to the gravitational acceleration that the pilot bears when the aircraft is maneuvering. It is represented by G, and it is considered to be up to the standard if it can sustain an overload of 7 G, which is equivalent to 7 times the body weight.
When performing three-dimensional maneuvers such as somersaults and flips, the potential energy of gravity and the kinetic energy of speed are converted into the maneuvering energy of the aircraft, and the pilot will also bear the overload of three axes, which will cause black vision.
Under the influence of acceleration, the human body causes ischemia of the brain and eyes, dim or even loss of vision, confusion or even coma.
Female fighter pilots or female astronauts have to pass the black eye, the former is more demanding because of the overload of three axes.
Zhang Xiao, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a female pilot of a brigade of the Air Force Air Force in the Eastern Theater Command, was once frustrated by the appearance of black vision - black vision means not being able to graduate, that is, grounding.
Zhang Xiao said she was especially grateful to her faculty.
The instructor comforted her and said, "Go back and have a good meal, have a good rest, and then let's study it carefully on the ground." When his body recovered, Zhang Xiao took off again and performed a complete set of stunts, and there was no black sight during the period. , successfully passed the examination.
Great ordeals make Supergirl.
"6 students were eliminated when they graduated from the aviation school, 6 more were eliminated when they graduated from the primary school, and only 16 people were left when they graduated from the higher education machine." Zhang Xiao clearly remembered that when a comrade-in-arms left at that time, he wrote A letter: "I want to fly so much, I want to fly in my dreams, the blue sky in my dream is so blue, but I can't fly anymore, you must fly well, you must fly for me, you are flying, it is me Flying." Every time a sister was eliminated, they would hug each other and cry.
Flying is just that, fair and brutal.
Just after graduation, they caught up with the National Day military parade for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
According to the arrangement, my country's first batch of female fighter pilots will fly the "Teaching 8" aircraft to form an echelon of Chinese Air Force female pilots to fly over Tiananmen Square, and honorably accept the inspection of the motherland and the people.
Only 15 fighter jets in the female pilot echelon have flown over Tiananmen Square, that is, one female pilot will be selected as a backup from 16 female pilots.
Because of his outstanding performance in all aspects, Zhang Xiaojia became that backup.
During the military parade, Zhang Xiaojia was a little aggrieved when she saw all her companions fly over and then returned, but she was still proud of the first batch of female fighter pilots in my country.
After successfully completing the military parade mission, Zhang Xiao entered the front-line combat unit and performed air patrol missions with the male pilots.
Once during a police patrol, Zhang Xiao just took off and joined the flight route when the alarm on the plane went off.
There are air defense radars and anti-aircraft missiles facing them under the plane. Basically, from joining the route to returning from the route, the alarm has not stopped during the whole process.
Was it scary when asked?
Zhang Xiao replied that it is impossible not to be afraid at all, but it is a duty. The more this is the case, the more you must hold this position and not let other planes come in, "Once you back off, you may back off again and again. , but behind it is your country and your people, and there is no way you can go back."
More than ten years of fighter flight, hundreds of sorties participated in actual combat training, combat take-off, sea and air patrols and other tasks, Zhang Xiao has become more and more powerful. She has successfully dealt with air special situations many times, and won the third-class merit three times, 2018 In 2010, she was awarded the title of "National Women's Achievement Model".
Despite the heavy duty of flying, Zhang Xiao feels that flying brings her a different experience, in addition to protecting the blue sky of the motherland, she can also see a different kind of beautiful scenery, "Sometimes when you are traveling in the clouds, if The plane is relatively fast, and it just flew past the clouds, and you will see that kind of vortex, the rainbow that you see in the air is different from what you see on the ground.”
However, flying a fighter jet is known as the dance on the tip of a knife, not only sweating, but also bleeding and even giving your life.
On November 16, 2016, in a training session of the Bayi Aerobatic Team, the female fighter pilot Yu Xu failed to parachute and died heroically.
Sichuan girl Yu Xu grew up from an ordinary rural girl to the first female J-10 fighter pilot in my country. With firm belief, she became the squadron captain of the Bayi Aerobatic Team step by step, dedicating her regretless youth and even her life to the motherland blue sky.
Above the blue sky, Chinese female fighter pilots continued to fly the eagles to chase the blue sky and bloomed their splendor.
And the Chinese people's unremitting pursuit of spaceflight dreams will also have their place.
Usually, female astronauts are selected from fighter pilots, and they have to learn aircraft driving skills first, and then learn spaceflight skills.
Female fighter pilots are the reserve force for manned spaceflight.
The last nine days to embrace the moon, their journey is the sea of stars.
Catch turtles in five oceans
"It is the color of the sun and the sea that reminds me of the changing time every day"
The giant ship plows the sea and the flying shark soars, pointing to the deep blue dream to the ocean.
Every voyage since the Chinese Navy's Liaoning ship has attracted the attention of the world.
In an ocean-going combat drill, a photo of a female helmsman was released to the world. She can be described as the "female driver" of the aircraft carrier.
This corporal female soldier is a Kazakh girl named Gadjela Habuli, from Xinjiang Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, and became a glorious member of the People's Navy in September 2015.
The difficulty and technical requirements of opening an aircraft carrier are far higher than any means of transportation in civilian life.
After all, the process of driving a marine giant with a displacement of more than 60,000 tons involves multiple supporting systems, dozens of departments and thousands of people.
In addition to mastering the degree of rudder rotation input by the rudder, the helmsman also needs to solve the data through the computer, and then issue commands to the transmission system. The seemingly simple process actually requires a lot of knowledge.
This Kazakh girl, with her tenacity and perseverance, drove this giant ship to ride the wind and waves across the ocean, and participated in two military parades at sea.
According to Zhang Zheng, the first captain of the Liaoning ship, all combat positions on the Liaoning ship are open to female crew members.
Nearly 100 energetic female crew members are active here. They come from 9 nationalities, and their positions cover 8 departments and 35 majors of the whole ship. They can be called "half the sky" of Chinese aircraft carriers.
"Lifesaving deployment, someone fell into the water on the port side!" This morning, in the depths of the ocean, the routine training of the Liaoning ship was going on intensely.
The one who gave the order was Song Meiyan, the deputy squadron leader of a certain department.
The command post of combat ships has always been a restricted area for female sailors.
Song Meiyan wanted to challenge this restricted area: "What the male crew members can do, the female crew members can still do it well!" The officer-in-charge assessment involves theory and practical content. The deployment of navigation, life-saving, damage control, etc. is complicated. , typhoon defense and other knowledge and disposal opportunities are infinite.
Song Meiyan went to colleges and universities for further study twice. After hard study and bold practice, she finally passed the duty officer assessment with excellent grades, completed the life transition from a management education officer to a combat command officer, and became the first female duty officer in the People's Navy.
The aviation department's ammunition statistician and female sergeant Guo Jinyu's battle position is more than 10 meters deep in the ammunition bottom compartment. It is very inconvenient to get up and down, but she is unequivocal. She climbs straight ladders faster than male soldiers and works more carefully than male crew members. Seriously, she put forward a number of technical improvement suggestions such as "optimization of the ammunition storage subsystem", which were adopted by scientific research institutes and industrial departments, and she became the first female ammunition soldier to wear a "red vest" on an aircraft carrier.
The damage control soldier and female sergeant Yuan Hua in the mechanical and electrical department, like the male soldiers, worked night shifts, got off the engine room, touched the pipelines and troubleshoots in the deep cabin with high temperature, high humidity, high noise, and no lights, and practiced a hard skill: Through the thick steel plate, you can know what pipeline is below, where it turns, and which direction it extends.
Every time before the J-15 carrier-based aircraft is released, the dispatching team of the aviation department is the most nervous, because the aircraft carrier flight deck is known as one of the most dangerous workplaces in the world. The continuous roar of the aircraft and the huge impact of the jet wake, In particular, the strong vibration caused by blocking the landing will bring great challenges to deck security.
But Kazakh female soldier Remila Dabuli said: "It is because it is difficult that I want to challenge." She was originally an operator on the Liaoning ship. female sailor.
The daring and careful Remira Dabuli, like other male soldiers, can now carry dozens of kilograms of mooring ropes and run on the deck.
"It's the J-15 that I guaranteed, and it took off successfully again..." These are the words of Remira Dabuli, and it also represents the true feelings of every dreamer on the Liaoning ship.
I am not afraid of rough seas, and I am the best at being a sonorous female soldier.
In order to work flawlessly, Navigation Radar Soldier Gulipali shuts herself in a small studio all day to practice her skills. "Every day reminds me that the time changes are the color of the sun and the sea."
Fan Shiyu, who weighs less than 50 kilograms, started out as a little girl who was blown away by the deck wind. "I have to stand firm on the deck." Facing the carrier-based helicopter landing precise guidance guide.
"My name is Yuan Meng, and now I finally realize my dream!" This was the voice of the female soldier Yuan Meng from the bottom of her heart.
At first, Yuan Meng had difficulty picking up the mooring lock.
Now she has mastered the use of type 4 locks and has become a "little expert" in the front line.
Sweat and tears poured out the most beautiful and stubborn "aircraft carrier flower".
As the first group of female soldiers in the People's Navy to be incorporated into a ship, they bravely fought on the front line of my country's aircraft carrier construction, and participated in major tasks such as aircraft carrier trials and carrier-based fighter jets landing and taking off. The first generation of female sailors in special positions such as female helmsmen, female electromechanical soldiers, female radar soldiers, and female damage control soldiers have grown up successively, and realized the transition from shore-based to dark blue, from short-term stationing to long-term stationing, and from A nice turn from a support post to a combat post.
Driving a chariot on the battlefield
"Sweat is facial cleanser, sand is sunscreen"
For female soldiers, the tank operator is probably the least "friendly" position - bumping against iron bumps all day long, eating sand and chewing soil all year round.
CCTV's "Military Report" once broadcast a program "Female Tanker: Smoke and Sand Paints the Face of Youth", which introduced the fighting style of 10 female tankers in a synthetic brigade of the Army, and people couldn't help but admire these heroines.
In this round of military reform of the People's Liberation Army, the Chinese Army established the first women's tank platoon.
The female tankers regard the 99A digital tank as their own battle position and a broad space to display their talents. They actively polished in the difficult times, completed the task well, and won the praise of their comrades.
"I am the most beautiful when I am driving a tank!" Liu Shushan, who graduated with a major in broadcasting and hosting, is proud of being a tank driver.
Once, male soldiers ridiculed them: "You learn to drive tanks just for fun." Liu Shushan and the others were not discouraged, but treated themselves as male soldiers, insisted on the same training time and training intensity as male soldiers, overcome difficulties, and surpassed themselves .
Once the company organized a "turning tire" competition, and before they played, the male soldiers began to whisper: "Can their female soldiers roll over?" "It shouldn't." At this time, Liu Shushan stood up and said, "Our female soldiers are not comparable to each other. You guys are worse, I'll come first." For Liu Shushan, a tire weighing more than 100 kilograms is indeed very difficult.
But thinking about the sisters behind her, she gritted her teeth and insisted.
Xu Chengbiao, commander of the synthetic battalion, sees the strength of the female tankers, "I used to have a weak impression of female soldiers, but Liu Shushan has changed my opinion. Especially her love for her job and her training. The meticulous thinking and strong execution of Zhong's thinking make me sincerely praise the female soldiers."
The female soldier Gan Jiaqi's post is the artillery commander.
The profession of artillery commander has higher requirements for soldiers, not only military quality and psychological quality, but also commanding ability and professional requirements.
As a gunner, the password must be issued professionally.
"This task is too heavy, can she be a recruit?" Facing doubts, the comrades-in-arms were worried about Gan Jiaqi.
But she pouted, "What are you afraid of? Our privates can also be artillery commanders!" She secretly made up her mind: The task that the organization entrusted to me is to trust me, and I must not only do it well, but also do it well.
She started from the simplest professional practice and practiced giving passwords. In order to make her voice more explosive and penetrating, she went to the training ground to practice pronunciation every morning before dawn. During the rest time, she gave the password to herself in the mirror. Practice in an empty laundry yard.
When she came to Zhurihe Field Training Ground, Gan Jiaqi successfully transferred to the major of artillery commander. The excellent results achieved in live ammunition in the early stage inspired her to sprint towards a better self.
Sun Qian, the driver of the car, brought the concept of "Love Pretend to Love Life" to the fullest.
Whoever tampered with her equipment, no matter who it was, she would definitely roll up her sleeves and talk to him.
If there is a human failure in the equipment, it will be angry.
Once, the comrades of the brother units entered the chariot to study and had a training experience.
Sun Qian was an instructor on the tank. She told me that a certain data could not be changed, and this button could not be adjusted. However, the visiting comrades did not listen to it, and carefully "experienced" the internal structure in the tank.
When Sun Qian saw it, she got angry and drove them out of the car.
Sun Qian herself is still in the learning stage, so it is almost impossible to adjust all the data.
But she didn't admit defeat, she just turned to the professional book and restored all the data and buttons one by one.
The yellow flowers of the battlefield, the times of the wind and sand.
A comrade-in-arms recommended set after set of whitening and skin care methods to Sun Qian. She not only ignored it, but also plausibly said: "Sweat is a facial cleanser, and sand is a sunscreen!" What she wants is unstoppable.
Recently, an ad hoc war preparations drill is imminent, the horn is urging the expedition, and the iron cavalry is galloping.
Against the backdrop of the setting sun, the advancing figure of the female tank soldier is reflected in the red willows swaying in the wind, which is the most dazzling and shining!
Riding the Excalibur to hunt Sirius
"The most beautiful appearance of female missile soldiers is the appearance of training, the appearance of hard work, and the appearance of winning honors."
The Rocket Force performing special missions often gives people a sense of "mystery", and the "Women's Missile Launching Company" adds a bit of mystery.
At the end of 2011, the "First Conventional Missile Brigade" of the Rocket Army established the first "Women's Missile Launching Company" in the whole army.
As a high-tech military service, the missile unit must learn professional theories and operate proficiently, which is the basis for a successful launch.
In order to complete the transition to missile operators as soon as possible, these female soldiers broke the routine, learned theories of equipment, and practiced operations against theories.
Soon, the unique delicacy and aura of female soldiers became a huge advantage. Every step of operation and every password, they strived to be accurate; every button and every phenomenon they remembered.
During the operation training, they aimed at the weak points of poor upper body strength, and added barbells and other equipment after each training task. Slowly, the slender arms developed muscles, and the body became stronger day by day.
In August 2012, the "Women's Missile Launching Company" went to the plateau to carry out live ammunition launch missions.
After more than 40 days of arduous battle, it happened to catch up with the company Changsheng seriously ill.
The brave and capable instructor Chen Qin directed the "Women's Missile Launching Company" to successfully launch 3 missiles, all of which hit the bullseye.
The company's missile position was praised as a "model position" by the base commander, and there was an endless stream of commanders who came to visit and see the school.
In the early autumn of the year, the scorching sun in the afternoon of August was still scorching hot.
In the training greenhouse for missile launch, which was roasted at a high temperature of nearly 40 degrees Celsius, a "downpour" suddenly began to fall.
This is the fighters of the Rocket Army's "Conventional Missile First Brigade" simulating training to perform launch tasks in a rainy environment.
In the "heavy rain", the missile launcher roared, and the soldiers were in full formation.
"The trumpeter is in place!" With the commander's order, the female soldiers quickly rushed to each position, unfolded the equipment, turned on the power, aimed, read the data, and entered the launch program... The trumpeters were skilled in their actions and cooperated tacitly. The eyes are solemn and firm.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fire!" Trumpeter Long Xiaohui pressed the fire button steadily.
On the display, the missile pierced the sky like a sharp sword, accurately destroying the target.
"Mission accomplished! Very excited!" Although he was wearing a raincoat, the rain was mixed with sweat, and Long Xiaohui and her comrades were soaked all over.
This is just the most common of the countless training missions for the female missile soldiers.
In low-light night operations that require meticulous operations, and launching in full defense wearing heavy gas masks and chemical protective suits, there are beautiful figures of female missile soldiers in the desert and the Gobi.
Over the years, the company has completed major training and exercises for the entire army and the Rocket Force many times, and successfully sent more than 10 missiles of three types to the blue sky.
Outside the training ground, these female missile soldiers, whose average age is only 24 years old, are like ordinary girls of the same age. They love to talk, laugh, and sing. They are cheerful, optimistic, and eccentric. They are all written on their youthful faces.
But as long as she went to the training ground, the female missile soldiers showed unexpected strength.
In the dense forest of the southern country, another women's missile company is active - the Army's first women's surface-to-air missile search and launch company.
In 2013, in accordance with the requirements of expanding the allocation of female soldiers from support positions to combat positions, an army group recruited female soldiers from the group army and established a female missile company in an air defense brigade.
Contrary to the imagination of outsiders, although the anti-aircraft missile troops are technical arms, they have very strict physical requirements.
The missile weighs 127 kilograms, the azimuth and elevation sighting machine weighs 63 kilograms, and the large cable reel weighs 82 kilograms... For this group of young female soldiers, it was hard to bear at the beginning.
In order to improve their arm strength, the female soldiers have formulated a weight gain plan, eating two more steamed buns every morning and adding more meals at 9 o'clock in the evening.
After 3 months, many of the originally slender team members became much stronger, and one of the female soldiers "surged" from 103 pounds to 133 pounds.
The feminine girls turned into "strong women" with thick arms and legs. They said, "Now it's easy to operate the equipment."
The female soldiers climbed and jumped from the chariot hundreds of times a day, often kowtowing with blood on their heads and bruises on their bodies.
One morning in the platoon for coordinated training, No. 3 player Xiao Ye was on the roof of the launch vehicle more than 3 meters high. His right calf slammed on the hook of the cable reel because his shoes slipped with dew, and he suddenly felt a sharp pain.
But she ignored it and continued to follow the platoon leader to take off the tank jacket and unlock the turret.
When the training was over, the platoon leader found that the right side of Xiao Ye's trouser leg had been dyed red with blood, and the calf muscle had a long gap.
After a week of rest, Xiao Ye got on the chariot again, and the wound had not healed completely.
It is a girl's nature to love beauty. When recruit Xia Yilin came in with her skin care products, the squad leader discovered her "little secret".
Seeing it without saying it, the squad leader just took her into the company's honor room and asked her to look at the photos of the officers and soldiers on the honor wall one by one.
Asked what she saw, she didn't know why.
The squad leader explained that the most beautiful appearance of female missile soldiers is the appearance of training, the appearance of hard work, and the appearance of winning honors, not the appearance of smearing powder.
During the winter practice of three-nine, and the summer practice of dog-fu, the female soldiers constantly refreshed the male soldiers' perception of "lesbian comrades" with repeated actions, and they also refreshed the company's honor book again and again——
Two months after the formation of the company, the company completed the course demonstration of the regularized on-site meeting of the former military region to a high standard, and participated in the live-fire exercise independently within 7 months of formation, and accurately hit the target in the complex electromagnetic environment at night.
In August 2015, the company went to the plateau for the first time to exercise, and used the "blind search" for the first time in the whole army to carry out live ammunition shooting and achieved good results in "three shots and three middle schools".
In September 2016, it took only 8 months for the company to install a new type of anti-aircraft missile, and all the missiles hit the target, maintaining the record of "no missing missiles" since its establishment.
In October 2018, the Women's Missile Company went to Shandan again to participate in the "Blue Shield" exercise. For the first time, it formed a ground joint air defense group with the Air Force Ground Guide Brigade to conduct cross-chain command, module grouping, and coupling integration, and explored joint system construction and force grouping. , Combat coordination method, through "back-to-back confrontation, face-to-face communication", the actual combat capability has been greatly improved.
New records and miracles are still being written. With unremitting tenacity and unyielding efforts, the female soldiers supporting the female missile company are getting closer and closer to the goal of strengthening the army.
And from the south to the north in the barracks, the heroic heroines who worship the military, are hardworking and tenacious, constantly play new and gorgeous movements in the horns of the strong army.
Zhao Xun