People's Daily Online, Nanjing, September 21 -- The smoke of gunpowder rises in the hinterland of East China, and the sharp sword comes out of its sheath to show its edge. On September 19, the special forces group competition of the Army's "Jingwu - 2018" military contest kicked off in Nanjing. More than 10 teams of special forces competed fiercely in a strange area in the suburb of Jinling for the "sword of refined martial arts", the highest honor of the competition. The competition was hosted by the Army and undertaken by the Army University of Engineering.
It is understood that the Jingwu series competition was founded by the Army Engineering University and has been held for 11 consecutive times so far. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the competition, the organizer, the Army Engineering University, selected relevant experts in the field of military basic training from colleges and universities to set up an expert group to comprehensively lead and fully promote the preparations for the competition. More than 10 times, they focused on discussing the competition scheme and competition rules, and organized capable people to carry out on-site survey of the pre selected areas of the competition, covering a distance of nearly 6000 kilometers.
The person in charge of the competition office said that organizing special forces to participate in this military competition is an important measure to implement the strategic requirements of the President's preparation for war and promote the colleges and forces to learn from each other and learn from each other's experience in combat training, which aims to comprehensively test and improve the basic training level of special forces' junior combatants and strengthen their ability to perform missions in the new era.
Similar to the martial arts competition of the college student group, the martial arts competition of the special forces group also set up nine established courses and one temporary course according to the three modules of "penetration reconnaissance attack", including concealed march, obstacle passing, survival behind the enemy, directional cross-country, night reconnaissance, observation and notification, key points of capture and control, resistance and rescue of the enemy, battlefield first aid. Some of the courses are more difficult and demanding.
The reporter saw at the scene that the special forces players were more "wild" and "war like", and their average age was only 19 years old. It is understood that most of them come from the heroic troops coming from the hail of bullets, whose code names are impressive and inspiring. During the contest, they were fully armed according to the fighting requirements, with an average load of more than 25 kilograms. It is understood that they should skillfully use Beidou satellite navigation and positioning system, individual laser simulation engagement system and other equipment and equipment to complete a series of competition courses within 36 hours, march more than 50 kilometers on foot, and the difficulty and intensity are close to human limits.
Jia Wei, the chief referee of the competition and the head of the Department of Military Foundation of the Army Engineering University, said in an interview that the competition was judged by "time axis" in accordance with the international military competition standards. In accordance with the principle of "third-party evaluation", the competition will select personnel from the Army University of Engineering as judges. During the competition, the discipline inspection and supervision department sent a working group to supervise the whole process of the competition design, referee execution, organization and implementation, and record results, so as to ensure that the whole process of the competition is sunny and transparent. (Wu Yuanjin, Yao Bing, Li Xiangyun, Li Xiao)
(Editor in charge: Mi Jin, Bai Yu)
