"Liu Guobing -- Lieutenant.

"You know my situation, I am a soldier. I entered the military academy at the age of 23, and returned to the grass root army at the age of 27. I am 28 years old this year." Not long after I came to the army, Liu Guobing opened the door of the instructor Lan Tianzhao with a solemn face. It was hard to hide his loss in his talk. "The 28 year old lieutenant platoon leader seems to be lagging behind others at the starting line."

Liu Guobing is not alone in this feeling. With the implementation of the new officer policy and system reform, if the newly graduated platoon leader has a bachelor's degree, he is generally awarded the rank of Second Lieutenant, while before that, he was directly awarded the rank of Lieutenant. This change was supposed to allow the new platoon leaders to spend more time at the grassroots level, but some of them had a psychological gap.

Lan Tianzhao's concern has long been aroused by people's more or less worries about chatting at ordinary times. After listening to Liu Guobingyi this time, he simply called all the second lieutenant platoon leaders in the company to their rooms to have a collective talk.

"It's also the platoon leader. A star is missing from the shoulder badge, which makes him feel shorter than others." "When the platoon becomes longer, I don't know which direction to go in the future.".

"I can understand your concern. But looking at the whole army, students who graduated in the same year are all standing on the same starting line. Grassroots are fertile ground for growth and success, and more squatting and crouching is not bad for young cadres." Looking at young faces, Lan Tianzhao earnestly explained policies, analyzed the situation, provided them with ideological guidance and cleared the ideological fog, "We should look forward to everything, not always compare the past. At present, the most important thing is to figure out how to go in the future, formulate life goals, improve ability and quality, and complete the work tasks based on our own positions." At the end of the talk, Lan Tianzhao assured everyone that all levels now attach great importance to the training and use of new platoon leaders, They are also trying to create favorable conditions: "The organization will set up a platform for you as much as you have talent."

After listening to the instructor's words, Liu Guobing suddenly understood that instead of caring about "a few stars" on his shoulder, he should think about what to do in the future.

Among these platoon leaders, Chen Jie's ideas are mature. While studying in the military academy, he began to plan his military career. Through self-study policies and regulations, listening to expert guidance, and consulting government officials and military officers, Chen Jie found his own life orientation, and designed a career development roadmap for himself before graduation, which clearly marked the abilities and conditions required for each step of promotion.

On the way to success, it is very important to keep the right direction. With such a picture in mind, Chen Jie did not complain about others after his next company, but had a clear goal and full of energy: "With more major tasks at the grass-roots level, more opportunities, and faster growth." Over the years, Chen Jie followed his troops to the plateau, to the islands and reefs, to the deep sea, and to the Gobi, and traveled all over the country. According to the plan of the road map, through trials and hardships in practice See the world, grow talent, strengthen muscles and bones.

Opportunities always favor those who are prepared. Once, the brigade organized live combat drills and selected unit commanders. Chen Jie, who had accumulated long ago, volunteered and stood out among the platoon leaders of the same group.

On the day of the drill, Chen Jie commanded the armored reconnaissance unit to conduct reconnaissance on the "enemy" command post. When he was found by the "enemy" frontier sentry, he calmly responded, commanding the fire team to attract fire in the front, while commanding the commando team to attack after detouring back to the "enemy", to seize the battle situation at one stroke.

"Nice fight!" The performance of the reconnaissance team was praised by the guidance and adjustment team. Everyone thought that its commander was a veteran "experienced in the battlefield". Unexpectedly, it was a second lieutenant platoon leader who stepped out of the chariot.

"Winning the victory and gaining recognition mainly depends on ability, not on military rank." After walking off the drill field, Chen Jie immediately led the team to conduct a review and find out the deficiencies, so as to accumulate strength for meeting new challenges.

When talking about the problems worried by other comrades in arms, Chen Jie had his own opinion: "The foundation is not solid, and there must be no stamina for personal development. If you stay in the grass roots for a long time, you can just sharpen it at the grass roots level, so that no matter whether you promote the rank or adjust the position in the future, there will be no lack of experience at the grass roots level."

Chen Jie's growth experience is undoubtedly a "shot in the arm" for other second lieutenant platoon leaders.

Lieutenant platoon leader Zhou Pin is 5 years younger than Liu Guobing. Although he is not worried about his age, he also has his own problems. It turned out that he had always regarded long-term service as a military goal, but when he came to the grass-roots level as a growing cadre student, he was confused by the strange environment and his lack of qualifications. Seeing that Chen Jie relied on "steady and steady" to gain "smooth wind and smooth water" for personal development, Zhoupin found its goal and direction.

He "added food" to himself in the training ground during the day and "recharged" in the learning room at night. While analyzing his own ability weaknesses, he formulated a targeted training plan, while actively consulting the technical backbone and training elite of the company. With his hard work and tenacity, his professional theory and equipment practice achievements both reached the "excellent" standard, and he performed well in the assessment of the brigade.

"The instructor is right. Excellent ability and quality is the foundation of standing." Zhou Pin excitedly said that the foundation of standing is thick enough, and the future of development is naturally broader. "This is not necessarily related to what rank was awarded when he first came to the grass-roots units."

If individuals want to make progress, they should organize to build ladders. Leaders of the brigade introduced that, in order to better help the new platoon leaders grow, on the one hand, they regularly organized theoretical rotation training, staff training, backbone training and other activities to help the second lieutenant platoon leaders strengthen theoretical armed forces, improve military literacy, and strengthen their ability to lead troops; On the other hand, carry out cross training of multiple posts, arrange lieutenant platoon leaders to exercise in different professional posts, enrich experience, improve resume, and solve the problem of limited follow-up development. In addition, they also asked the battalion commander to pair up with the platoon leader of the second lieutenant, master their ideological trends and psychological demands in real time, and actively solve their problems.

"You can go far only when you are stable." In the interview, Xie Gang, the officer of the Human Resources Section of the brigade, made a vivid analogy: the platoon leader of the second lieutenant grows up in the military camp, which is like participating in a marathon race. The key to winning is not to sprint at a certain stage, but to maintain a good pace and rhythm from beginning to end.

According to him, the second lieutenant platoon leader is often seen in various major tasks of the brigade today. They actively participate, like thinking, and are full of energy. They have more hope for their future development. (Zhang Feilong, Xia Zehua, Ang Zhengping)

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