Chapter 348: The bold words a few years ago, the youth a few years later
Time rushed like clockwork, and it quickly came to the end of November.
The atmosphere of retirement once again enveloped the camp.
Recently, the brigade has begun to convene meetings with each battalion from time to time in response to the situation of veterans and job transfers.
The content of the meeting was more serious, which repeatedly emphasized the point inspection issue and required each battalion to handle the last step well.
After all, the people who are retiring this time are all non-commissioned officers. They are senior in the unit and most of them are still serving as squad leaders. Some veterans will want to take some bullet casings and some contraband back as souvenirs.
These veterans have a lot more wild ways of carrying things, and there are endless ways to hide things from the outside world.
If you don’t pay attention, you will be taken away by them.
How do you say this? In terms of emotions, the leaders in the unit can understand it.
In terms of stipulations, there is no way to accommodate them.
Therefore, the military discharge examination will be specially emphasized every time, and the scene of the examination is generally strict.
As for the content of the meeting that was relatively relaxed, Tao Lu repeatedly emphasized that the farewell ceremony should not be careless, and each unit should not arrange things casually and make things confusing. It must be grand.
No, the first batch of veterans will leave the unit tomorrow.
Chen Jun and Ma Hongjie had just come out from a meeting at the brigade headquarters when a cold wind blew in their faces.
Chen Jun subconsciously tightened his collar and looked at Ma Hongjie: "Old Ma, is the camp ready for the farewell ceremony Tao Lu mentioned just now?"
"Well, no problem."
Hearing this, Ma Hongjie nodded: "We prepared early, and we borrowed the ribbons and everything from the Joint Logistics Department in advance."
"Just recently. The problem of asking for leave is very serious in the two-day camp, and the instructors of each company are also working on it, so it is a bit difficult to appease them."
"Approval as much as possible"
Chen Jun walked towards the parking lot. At this time, An sighed.
The problem of leave in the camp is not only serious.
That is simply more than 10% of the proportion of people who take leave to go out. It is twice as high.
He also mentioned this matter to Tao Lu just now, and there was no better solution from above.
After all, more than two-thirds of the veterans in the first battalion were transferred from other units. They usually worked well and never caused any trouble. Now that they are leaving, I want to take leave to visit their original units. Look, turn around.
Meet old comrades from the past.
For this kind of reasonable request, each veteran in his thirties went to the company commander to express his feelings and rationally explain the reasons and needs.
Can I not approve it?
We are at this critical moment, and the retirement season is only a few days away. It is hard to justify being unreasonable and unapproving.
The military journey is long and short, but the most profound memories are often concentrated in two stages, one is the recruit company and the other is the discharge season.
After leaving the army, just these few days have passed, but there are always some things worth remembering for a lifetime.
Ma Hongjie was in charge of driving, and Chen Jun was sitting in the back seat. When he returned to the camp, the company commanders at the training ground were still organizing daily training.
But soldiers can be seen everywhere in the camp, wandering aimlessly.
These people no longer walked in a hurry, nor were they in the mood to laugh or play.
Someone picked off the dead leaves from the tree trunks beside the road, gently stroked the dust off the leaves, and carefully put the leaves into their pockets.
There are also people staring at the stones on the roadside in a daze, in a daze.
Chen Jun did not return directly to the camp headquarters. He got off the bus halfway and asked Lao Ma to go back first.
A veteran nearby heard movement behind him. He turned around and saw the battalion commander passing by, and quickly stood up and saluted.
Chen Jun gave a standard return gift. He didn't have much to give these veterans.
You can only respect it to the best of your ability.
Soldiers.
When they first joined the army, when they first got to know the life of the army, how many of them had already agreed to work as pickets, squad leaders, platoon leaders, company commanders, police officers, etc.
And how many people had done so? I have said that only idiots will cry when they are discharged from the army. If I shed a drop of horse urine, I will be a coward.
It’s really time to retire.
How many people cry like idiots, and how many of them can still talk and laugh like they just joined the army?
Those heroic words of the past may just be the youth with a slight smile a few years later.
Chen Jun has experienced many retirement seasons, but this year's experience is the most different. Because the position he is standing is different from before, the feeling is naturally different.
If Battalion Commander Zhao had not gone to further training, he probably would not have wanted to see such a scene.
After all, these veterans wandering around the camp are all veterans of the First Battalion.
There are many places in the camp available to them.
Chen Jun can also go to the brigade and get more quotas when appropriate.
But this group of people who quit are different.
Many comrades are older and have been in the army for 12 years, and even served in the army for 16 years in four terms.
They have completed their mission of loyalty to the country.
Next, more gay people choose to return home to fulfill their filial piety. After all, the two elders in the family are getting older.
Chen Jun greeted these veterans silently, which could be regarded as a different kind of farewell.
In his previous life, Chen Jun remembered a comrade. The night before he was discharged from the army, the squad leader called him and the comrade who was about to retire to the rooftop.
The three of them drank Sprite and peanuts, and talked a lot until early in the morning when they left the army in a daze.
After many years, Chen Jun only remembered the comrade who left and reluctantly said: Two years in the army, it was like a dream.
There is also a comrade who made a phone call when he was discharged from the army. The operator suddenly said to him, this is the last time I will connect the line for you. After listening to this.
Hearing this, the comrade held the microphone, stopped silently, and cried silently! !
Thinking of the past, let’s look at the comrades in the camp who are leaving.
Chen Jun himself couldn't tell what he was feeling right now.
Anyway, it’s so sour that I feel like I can’t take a breath in or out.
Walking around each company, as a battalion commander, he found this kind of thing uncomfortable.
But the work of supervision cannot be careless.
He went to the division chief of each company to check the preparation status of the veterans' information bags. After the tea party of each class tonight, there will be veterans who have left here to collect them.
Afterwards, I went to the warehouse in the camp to check out. Chen Jun would not participate in the tea party. After all, it was held in every class, and he could not participate.
Tonight the tea party is over. Tomorrow morning the camp will organize a farewell ceremony to the military flag. After collecting the epaulettes and bouquets, we can arrange for inspection and take the bus to the station.
In the warehouse, there are many musical instruments borrowed by the company commander from the Joint Logistics Department, including all kinds of things.
These things will add some more beautiful memories to tonight’s tea party.
In the evening.
Chen Jun was still walking around when he suddenly saw many veterans sneaking towards the second battalion in groups after training.
One look at the sneaky posture, Chen Jun knew what these brats wanted to do.
He simply arranged for the soldiers on duty nearby to notify the inspection team to directly open the road from the first battalion to the second battalion.
No more checking over there.
Mainly, it's useless to check, there are too many people sneaking past.
Over there with the Second Battalion is the Soldier Service Center. Running there at this time must be to prepare for the evening tea party.
The military camp clearly stipulates that you are not allowed to drink. If you ask for leave on Sunday, you can go to the hotel to have a drink. As long as you return to the team within the specified time and don't drink too much, no one will really bother with these problems.
As the saying goes, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below.
Drinking is not allowed, so these guys will carry boxes of Sprite and Fanta instead of alcohol. There are also some clever guys who pour beer into the drinks bottles. Trying to muddle through.
It’s okay to be strict with him usually, but Chen Jun didn’t plan to be stricter today.
However, special times deserve special treatment.
Chen Jun looked at it for a while, then he simply turned around and returned to the camp. Since he couldn't see it, he just pretended that nothing happened.
. . . . . . . .
Nine o'clock that night.
Just when the roll call of each unit was late, the emotions of the veterans in the company who were about to retire finally broke out uncontrollably.
Chen Jun and instructor He Yingtao were standing by the railing on the third floor of the battalion headquarters chatting.
Suddenly, heartbreaking sounds came from the direction of the tank company, and high-pitched and hoarse roars resounded throughout the camp.
This guy suddenly made such a noise in the middle of the night.
Chen Jun and Lao He looked at each other, their expressions changed at the same time, and they quickly started going downstairs.
During the retirement season, Chen Jun was most afraid of accidents. In the past few days, Chen Jun walked around the camp every day and chatted with veterans because he was afraid of something happening.
The tank company is still at the old company location, not far from the battalion headquarters.
The sudden sound came, and many cadres in the camp ran out to check the situation.
Li Haiyao has never encountered this kind of thing. When she heard the noise, she ran out of the building with a bang,
When I arrived at the entrance of the camp, I happened to encounter Chen Jun and the instructor leaving in a hurry.
She also ran over and followed.
At this time, Chen Jun couldn't care about other things. He walked towards the tank company headquarters.
The usually unshakable sentries on duty were no longer standing here. The whole company was gathered in the distance, and the heartbreaking sound, with obvious crying, spread throughout the company headquarters.
Crying was heard.
Chen Jun stopped rushing over, and He Yingtao also stopped.
The two looked at each other and quietly stood in an inconspicuous place.
When Li Haiyao also ran over, she was not as experienced as these two old fritters, so she just wanted to run over.
Chen Jun, who was standing in the corner, pulled her aside.
Then he shook his head slightly, indicating that Li Haiyao didn't need to get too close, as nothing happened in the camp.
Nothing happened, because the roar was so close that you could only hear the endless reluctance and the true nature of a soldier.
Later roll call tonight.
This is the last roll call for this group of veterans who are about to retire.
Maybe the atmosphere was too depressing. One of the veterans couldn't hold back his turbulent emotions, turned around, left the team and yelled into the distance.
One person failed to restrain himself, and the emotions of the remaining veterans in the entire company suddenly exploded.
"Cry, cry like shit, I won't talk about you brats tonight. When I leave tomorrow, no one is allowed to come see me off, and no one is allowed to call me monitor."
< br>"Whoever disobeys the order, get down on the ground and do twenty push-ups."
This is a squad leader who is about to leave, standing in the crowd and loudly reprimanding the soldiers he brought out.
Not far away.
There was also a soldier who was about to retreat. He was infected by the roar and looked at his squad leader with red eyes.
But his squad leader grinned widely: "Don't squeeze my horse's piss out of me. You finally got out of here. You drag the class back every day. Leave now. You're really annoying me here." "
The scolded veteran nodded blankly, but he did not see that when his squad leader laughed heartily, tears had already burst into his eyes.
The veteran didn't even react when he was scolded. The squad leader, who had been quite free and easy just now, suddenly hugged him hard, with no trace of a smile in his voice.
"Damn it, you're gone, who are you going against me?"
That cry made Chen Jun's eyes turn red, He Yingtao remained silent, he just squatted Smoking cigarettes one by one on the ground.
The tank company was the company he led before, and most of these soldiers were soldiers from the second company.
Lao He knows and is familiar with both.
When the cigarette butt burned out, He Yingtao stared blankly into the distance as if he didn't realize anything.
He knew that nothing would happen to the tank company. In fact, Chen Jun also knew because He Yingtao had just been picked up from the tank company.
Fatty He has a good prestige in the company and is protected by so many veterans. Anyone who dares to cause trouble at this juncture will not be dealt with by the camp.
Just the veterans of the second company could eliminate the source of trouble.
After standing and watching for a while, Chen Jun quietly pulled Li Haiyao away.
The cold wind blows on the face, and the reluctance of the retirement season is like turning into a cold wind, which makes people feel exhausted.
"Comrades who have retired feel uncomfortable and are reluctant to leave the military camp. You should be more open-minded. Tomorrow, you will host a ceremony to bid farewell to the military flag. Don't think about it now. Have a good rest tonight."
Li Haiyao felt that Chen Jun was not in a high mood at the moment, so she comforted him softly.
"Well, I'm fine."
Chen Jun nodded with a smile, and then he stretched his waist and said: "After sending off the comrades who are leaving tomorrow, they will be promoted the day after tomorrow. The above is to reduce and eliminate the retired comrades as soon as possible Too many negative impacts."
"These are all arranged together. I will accompany you back when the awarding is over."
"Yes."
< br>Hearing this, Li Haiyao nodded her chin calmly, not that she was not looking forward to it, but that she had been waiting.
Li Haiyao did not persuade him that with so many people in the camp having just retired, it would be difficult to carry out all aspects of work.
If the work in the camp needs to be handled, she can wait and is willing to wait.
All she wants is a word.
The next day is the official first day of December.
The morning of December 1st.
There was no morning exercise today. When the wake-up whistle sounded, each company commander arranged for the personnel to wash up and lead the team to the canteen.
This night was both the calmest and the least peaceful.
Someone walked alone all night on the patrol road that they usually least like to walk.
It wasn’t until dawn that I suddenly realized it.
Someone stood there silently on duty at the place where they were once on duty, changing duty posts one after another, just to stand in the place where they once stood one last time.
Some people also took their comrades and chatted all night.
Today there is only one thing for breakfast in all canteens, which is mutton dumplings.
The comrades in the cooking class arranged it overnight.
This time the meal time was very long, from seven o'clock to nine o'clock.
But when the camel bell rang on the radio in the camp, many soldiers were still reluctant to leave.
Until the military flags are greeted and farewelled, until the inspection is completed, and until the veterans who are leaving are about to get on the bus.
Everyone turned around and looked at the familiar military camp, looking at the place where they left their youth.
Stopped in a daze.
Goodbye, military camp.
Goodbye, youth! !
(End of this chapter)