Chapter 128: Phase Two Training Begins!
After Gao Cheng and the Political Instructor left, Chen Jun announced to the entire company that they had passed the infrared detection, and the camouflage cloth possessed the predetermined actual combat effect and would be incorporated into the subsequent training.
The warriors who had been hiding under the camouflage cloth for most of the day, always tense and uneasy, all excitedly rushed out.
Perhaps thinking that they wouldn’t have to be covered in dirt and grime anymore, lying there day after day digging large pits to hide tanks, and finally being liberated with the camouflage cloth.
No one knew who started it.
A large group of men from the entire company surged forward, surrounding Chen Jun. Before he could run away, they grabbed him together and started playing “high up” with him.
While lifting him, they excitedly shouted all sorts of strange slogans.
“Platoon Leader Chen, Platoon Leader Chen, you’re awesome.”
“Who’s the inventor of Seventh Company? It’s Platoon Leader Chen, it’s Platoon Leader Chen.”
“Who’s the best in Seventh Company? Platoon Leader Chen is the best.”
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Listening to the warriors shouting all sorts of nonsense slogans, as he was repeatedly put down and lifted up again, Chen Jun was truly amused and exasperated.
The commotion lasted a full several minutes before everyone’s excitement finally wore off.
They had laughed and made noise.
Now it was time for serious training.
The service life of the camouflage cloth would be limited, not because the two layers of PET plastic film were not durable, nor because the aluminum foil coating on top would peel off.
It was mainly the tin foil sandwiched in the middle, whose bending resistance was very limited.
To make it easy to carry, the camouflage cloth needed to be folded, and during anti-infrared operations it needed to be unfolded, and after completing the operation it needed to be folded again.
Each folding was one use of its lifespan, and after a few times the tin foil would break.
Once the tin foil broke, there would be cracks, and high-power infrared thermal imaging instruments could detect the thermal radiation inside through those cracks.
Once the cracks reached a certain width, the camouflage cloth would lose its effect.
To avoid wasting the service life of the camouflage cloth—after all, one piece could only be used less than ten times—Chen Jun made a small adjustment to the anti-infrared operations training.
Before training, he first organized all the company warriors to cut and bond a batch of ordinary PET plastic films similar in size and thickness to the camouflage cloth, to be used as props for training.
Because the size and material were similar, it wouldn’t affect the training effect.
From the first time taking ten or so minutes to unfold, to achieving the standard of completing the camouflage within three minutes, the training was conducted for a total of three days.
As expected from Gao Cheng, who had handpicked these excellent soldier seedlings one by one.
Their learning ability and hands-on ability.
Were both extremely strong.
Shi Jin was also a particularly thoughtful person. Surprisingly, during these three days of training, he specially arranged for Xu Sanduo to come from the cookhouse to participate in one day of anti-infrared operations training.
With Xu Sanduo’s current undeveloped and severely uncoordinated body, one day definitely wasn’t enough to become proficient.
But relying on his photographic memory, he could memorize all the movements and essentials in his head through his talent.
To help Xu Sanduo keep up later, Shi Jin racked his brains and came up with a method.
He specially found a few pieces of camouflage cloth props that had been discarded from regular training due to excessive repeated use, and during everyone’s midday nap.
He cut out the good parts from these props and re-bonded them into a complete camouflage cloth prop.
He told Xu Sanduo to keep this cloth safe, and whenever he had free time on duty at the cookhouse, to take it out and practice by himself according to his memory.
Xu Sanduo knew Shi Jin was helping him, and he knew he wasn’t recognized in Steel Seventh Company.
The Company Commander didn’t think he was a good soldier.
Xu Sanduo himself didn’t think he was a good soldier either.
In order to become a good soldier, and to not let the Squad Leader’s efforts go to waste, Xu Sanduo brought out the spirit he had in Grassland Fifth Squad of practicing marching drill alone, repairing the road alone, never giving up no matter how monotonous.
He meticulously remembered every word Shi Jin instructed, and practiced anti-infrared camouflage operations alone whenever he had time.
Chen Jun saw all of this in his eyes. Although he didn’t help Xu Sanduo with anything, he also didn’t stop Shi Jin’s efforts for Xu Sanduo.
Undeveloped Xu Sanduo was clumsy and dull, and his body was like the Ren and Du Meridians not yet opened.
But Xu Sanduo’s persistence, endurance, and ability to endure hardship were beyond question; from beginning to end, he never complained about it being hard or tiring.
The story of “Clumsy Birds Fly First” seemed to be written just for him.
Shi Jin’s rhythm of not affecting the Reconnaissance Squad’s training, while making time to help Xu Sanduo as much as possible, allowing Xu Sanduo to slowly progress.
Was exactly what Chen Jun wanted to see!
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With the end of the anti-infrared camouflage operations training, the common subjects of Steel Seventh Company’s synthesized modification training basically came to a close here.
Anti-infrared operations began with the second stage, and also marked the end of the first stage training.
The upcoming second stage training focused on specialization, with each squad starting to train their own skills and techniques to the standards set by Chen Jun.
And in Chen Jun’s standards, there was no “qualified”; it had to start with “excellent.”
And so.
Under Chen Jun’s personal leadership, command, and arrangement, the warriors of Steel Seventh Company’s total nine squads were divided into six different training grounds to begin their respective specialized training.
The Third Squad led by Shi Jin, as the Vanguard Reconnaissance Squad, was undoubtedly the core of Steel Seventh Company.
Chen Jun set a standard for him far higher than an ordinary scout, defining it as a special operations squad within the Reconnaissance Company, and personally serving as instructor to teach hands-on.
The special warfare techniques to be learned included but were not limited to professional rock climbing, battlefield camouflage, grappling and fighting, tracking, trace analysis, parachuting, rappelling, FEEL tactics, Hellfire tactics, and more.
Simply put.
It was all the skills that special forces soldiers needed to learn, except for the CQB, CAR, and other techniques required for urban counter-terrorism and riot control; everything else like jungle combat, battlefield reconnaissance infiltration, and other special warfare techniques had to be mastered.
Chen Jun in his previous life was a strategic-level special forces instructor who had trained several strategic and tactical-level special forces units.
He had no issues at all with teaching.
As for whether Third Squad’s warriors could learn it all, accurately speaking, whether they could learn everything in the remaining four-plus months.
They definitely couldn’t.
So Chen Jun adjusted the training courses, teaching first the subjects that might be needed in confrontation military exercises, that is, the more core subjects first.
The remaining less urgent ones with lower probability of use could be learned later.
As long as before the extremely critical mountain terrain live-fire exercise in the original drama that concerned Steel Seventh Company’s life and death began, they could supplement and complete the other subjects.
Second Squad Maneuver Squad, as backup for Third Squad, also needed to perform reconnaissance missions when necessary.
So Second Squad followed Third Squad throughout the learning process.
First Squad, as Seventh Company’s logistics support squad, was destined to handle a very miscellaneous set of tasks, so the subjects and content for learning and training were naturally very extensive.
However.
Compared to the Reconnaissance Squad requiring Chen Jun to oversee the entire time, with almost every subject needing hands-on teaching from him, which would consume a lot of his time and energy.
The logistics support squad covered company foundation subjects, with the training plans written by Chen Jun as the main line, and then having Company Commander Gao Cheng personally responsible for overseeing.
Forming preliminary combat effectiveness before the confrontation exercise began was probably not an issue.
