The strugglers are young | I would rather give up my life and not lose half an inch of the motherland
CCTV News: On the banks of the Yarlung Zangbo River on the southwestern border of the motherland, there is a group of valiant female soldiers from Medog. Their average age is less than 25 years old. Their practical actions will light up their border dreams.
Fan Xiaowei, a female college student who enlisted in the army the year before last, is one of them. As the first group of female soldiers on the frontier who came to Medog at the end of October last year, she wrote down every bit of her time at the frontier in her diary.
For this Guangxi girl who is about to return to campus after her military service, the most important piece in her diary is also a highlight in her life. It was just written two days ago.
May 2nd, cloudy and sunny, today is a special day.
After coming to Medog for more than half a year, I finally ushered in my first patrol in my border guard career.
The place we went this time was in a no-man’s land more than 30 kilometers away. For two days of going back and forth, each of us was carrying 40 kilograms of supplies.
There is a lot of rain in Motuo in summer, and the virgin forest is simply a "paradise" for leeches. Although I have been psychologically prepared, but...
The squad leader said that defeating leeches is a compulsory course for the first patrol.
Zhan Mengjie secretly pretended to bring back a few. She told me that this was the mark of her border guarding and the proof of her growth.
And Despair Poe, the name given to the former veterans.
Only after I really walked through it did I understand the meaning of the word "despair".
It was the first time that my comrades and I came into contact with this kind of mountain road. Many people slipped and Meng Jie also cramped, but we still persevered.
It was a tough journey, but when it came time to take the oath, I really felt it was all worth it.