From the 7th Steel Company to the Synthetic Division

Chapter 17 Soldiers are all well-rounded

There aren’t many buildings in the camp, but they are all oversized.

It is considered a feature of the armored company’s barracks.

Gao Cheng is a man of impatient character, and he does things quickly, not slowly. He told them that the call would be accepted before tomorrow afternoon, so he brought the person over today.

As the first group to arrive, we can only work first.

You have to do it.

After nine months of "rest", the entire camp was filled with leaves and weeds. The rooms inside were not much better, as they were covered with a thick layer of dust.

In order to have a place to rest tonight, Chen Jun and his colleagues had to hurry up and start working.

At this time, everyone finally realized why the company commander specifically asked the quartermaster to purchase and clean the items and bring them together today.

It was obvious that Gao Cheng knew the situation here and had made special arrangements in advance.

It was not the first time for the squad leaders Jin Dashan and Wu Liuyi to lead the soldiers in the recruit company, and they were used to everything in the barracks.

There was no need for the company commander, Lord Gao, to give any instructions; they started cleaning skillfully.

And the goal is clear.

Ignore the leaves and weeds on the playground outside and the dust in the other large rooms for now and go straight to the only dormitory building to clean the rooms there first.

There are not many people in the armored tank company, and there is no distinction between cadre buildings and dormitory buildings.

It is a two-story building where officers and soldiers live, and offices, telephone rooms, libraries, etc. are also concentrated here.

If you add up all the rooms in the small building, there are only 11 rooms.

The quartermaster who is in charge of daily procurement definitely needs a separate room, not to mention the company commander and instructor, who also need separate rooms.

The three platoon leaders also need rooms to live in, a room to serve as an armory to store guns and ammunition, and a telephone room to receive and send notifications and make phone calls.

In this way, eight of the eleven rooms are used, and the remaining three will also be used in training.

For example, the infirmary.

Various minor accidents are inevitable during training. The most common ones are minor wounds requiring stitches, dislocations or sprains of hands or feet, colds, flu, and insect bites.

A medical room would definitely need to be prepared to ensure that the training can proceed normally.

Another example is a small meeting room.

The recruit company conducts a training summary every week, and the company commander will call the squad leaders of each class to the conference room to summarize and discuss the situation of the recruits.

Problems should be solved in advance and nipped in the bud to ensure the stability and safety of the training of new recruits.

All the rooms in the dormitory building were occupied, so where would the three platoons and nine squads of the recruit company, with nearly a hundred people, sleep at night? This became a big problem.

Fortunately, this problem was already solved well when this place was set up as a camp for new recruits.

That means opening up the paving!

As the camp of an armored tank company, tanks take up the most space in the camp. The troops take good care of their equipment and would not leave them outside to be exposed to the wind and rain.

So there are many warehouses in this camp, specifically used to store tanks.

Push the large iron door which is several meters wide to enter, and there is a huge space which is five or six meters high, more than ten meters wide, and several dozen meters deep.

Double iron beds are arranged in an orderly manner from outside to inside, and each class is divided into an area, which is enough to easily accommodate hundreds of people.

However, no one has lived here for more than half a year, and there is a layer of dust visible to the naked eye on the bed boards of these dozens of iron beds, which is at least two or three millimeters deep.

It is definitely a huge project to organize so many beds.

Chen Jun's group consisted of five people in total. It was impossible for them to take care of the sanitation in a big place, so they could only think about themselves first and make sure they had a place to stay tonight.

Under Gao Cheng's personal arrangement and communication, everyone was devoted to their respective work. As the company commander, Gao Cheng was the link between the upper and lower levels. He first communicated with the regiment to sort out the logistics, send people to take care of the water and electricity, prepare the kitchen team to enter the site, and put the armorers and weapons into the warehouse.

The signalman helped the company commander prepare his room and sorted out the things he had brought with him.

As squad leaders of the new recruits, Wu Liuyi and Jin Dashan were supposed to live in a large bunk bed in the warehouse with the other recruits, but today they couldn't get a bunk bed.

So according to the arrangement of the company commander Gao Cheng, they went to the instructor's room together.

The instructor would bring a clerk with him, and the clerk would need to set up the call center. Time was not very sufficient, so the company commander would usually send someone to help.

By preparing the instructor's room in advance, Wu Liuyi and Jin Dashan not only completed their work, but also had a temporary place to rest tonight.

It can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

It is faster for two people to set up a house, so I also have to help check the equipment and facilities.

Check whether the water pipes are burst, the light bulbs are damaged, the faucets are rusted, the solar water heater is broken, whether the boiler can be used, etc.

All inspection results need to be listed and finally fed back to the company commander Gao Cheng.

He will be responsible for diplomatic negotiations and get the problems rectified.

Even though Wu Liuyi and Jin Dashan are just soldiers, the work they have to do this time involves all aspects of water and electricity, which sounds like something is not right.

But in fact, most of the work of the troops is really solved by the company itself.

I rarely ask for help from my superiors and rarely look for help from outside.

The soldiers of a company in the army, in addition to carrying guns and fighting, also have to take part-time jobs on weekdays and do all kinds of work that outsiders would never expect.

Common ones include barbers, plumbers, chefs, drivers, etc.

Uncommon welders, lathe operators, repairmen, painters and carpenters are available.

The main focus is self-sufficiency!
This kind of self-sufficiency and a small company as a small society is definitely a unique feature of the Chinese army.

Chen Jun can do all kinds of miscellaneous work, but his status is different now. He has his own things to do, so he is no longer needed to do small things.

Today he was in charge of his own platoon leader's room, complete with his own private kitchenette.

Although he has a new task to lead the new recruits, Chen Jun still cannot relax at all, and improving physical fitness still has to be the top priority.

As for the matter of moving from the 7th Steel Company to a new location, no one went out to help purchase supplies.

Chen Jun doesn't need to worry about it, Company Commander Gao Cheng will take care of it.

Chen Jun has now become Gao Cheng's treasure. His status in his heart is second only to Shi Jin, and is still rising.

and so.

Gao Cheng is particularly concerned about Chen Jun's affairs.

Even though it's just cleaning a room, according to the military's task standards, the workload is quite heavy for a room that has been idle for a year.

Not to mention the sheets and quilts.

Old tradition!
The windows must be cleaned to a crystal clear state without any stains, so that the road looks like there is no glass.

The dust on tables, cabinets, etc. must be kept from changing color when touched with white gloves, and clothes must be folded into tofu blocks in the cabinets.

Even if the floor is just made of cement, it must be made so that no dust can be swept away.

To clean a room according to this standard, it takes a lot of time and is a very torturous job.

Not to mention the room which had been idle for more than half a year and was already covered with cobwebs.

(End of this chapter)