War Military: From 1978

Chapter 245 Blood-stained Medal!

Holding a red box, Chu An came out from the group with a complicated expression on his face.

He was really awarded the title of Honorary Hero, and also received two first-class merits and one second-class merit.

Even the reconnaissance platoon he led won the collective honor of an iron-blooded heroic platoon, a collective first-class merit, and a collective second-class merit.

In addition, the box he was holding now contained eleven first-class individual merit medals, forty-six second-class individual merit medals, and fifty-eight third-class individual merit medals.

Among them, eight first-class individual merit medals, thirty-three second-class individual merit medals, and twenty-one third-class individual merit medals belong to the reconnaissance platoon.

The number of medals of honor is greater than the total number of people in the front and rear reconnaissance platoons, and the number of second-class merit medals is twelve more than the number of third-class merit medals.

This is actually a bit unbelievable now. If people from other companies heard it, they would definitely shout that it was unreasonable.

Because now there is a proportional control on post-war commendations and awards.

In a unit, there are usually only 55% quota for commendations and awards at most. How can there be someone with more merits than people?

The proportions are controlled, and first-class, second-class and third-class merits are distributed according to the number of people in the unit and individual military achievements.

However, this method of evaluating combat merit is not actually applicable to most reconnaissance units.

Because scouts are the frontline and most active troops on the battlefield.

Maybe they are not seen on many front battlefields, like the first wave of mountain attack on February 17, when there were basically no scouts on the front battlefield.

But this cannot erase the scouts' achievements.

Because the reconnaissance troops basically enter deep behind enemy lines a few hours or even a dozen times in advance.

Just like Chu An and his men, they entered the country in the early morning, and then participated in one battle after another, always at the forefront of the team.

The combat missions are numerous, the sacrifices are great, and the tasks are arduous.

In this case, as long as the task is completed well, the proportion of evaluation for merit and awards can naturally be broken.

In fact, this time it’s not just the reconnaissance platoon, the entire C Regiment had a very high rate of commendations and awards this time.

The proportion of merit and award commendations in the entire regiment was as high as 68%, far exceeding the 55% of general front-line troops.

You have to know that this includes the large number of restored reinforcements who joined after the Battle of Sanpin Mountain.

In other words, in this battle, almost all the original veterans of Regiment C made contributions.

Because of this, the entire C Group was awarded the title of Iron-Boned Hero Group this time.

This is a commendation from the superiors for the spirit of the C Regiment, which was transferred from the second line to the first line on the front line and remained standing and fought bloody battles even when the entire regiment suffered more than 60% casualties.

But, these honors are not for nothing!
The Iron-Boned Hero Regiment, behind this title is the fact that on the battlefield, the casualties exceeded 60%.

Not to mention the Iron Blood Hero Platoon. If we only count the first batch of veterans, the casualties after one battle exceeded 85%.

These are all titles forged with blood. The box that Chu An is holding now contains the merits earned by his comrades who were still alive more than a month ago with their lives.

First class merit, second class merit!

Is it really important?

Now family members are coming one after another, and there are already three in my company.

Thinking of their grief-stricken faces and their loss of appetite, he wondered how he could bear to use a medal to take the lives of their sons, husbands, and fathers.

But now the group has directly given this task to him.

To be honest, Chu An was under a lot of pressure.

Walk slowly back to the special forces company step by step.

Along the way, some people saw Chu An holding a box and moving sideways frequently, but no one said anything.

Chu An was not in the mood to talk to them. One reason was that he didn't know them, and the other was that he was simply not in the mood.

Back to the special forces company, the box was placed on the table.

Just then, Wu Xinmin walked in.

Chu An glanced at him but said nothing.

Wu Xinmin glanced at the box on Chu An's desk, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.

But even though the two of them seemed to get along well in front of their families before, now that they were the only two in the company, he would not take the initiative to ask.

However, when he took some things and was about to go out, Chu An, who was smoking a cigarette, called him.

"Instructor!"

Wu Xinmin looked back!
Chu An pointed at the box in front of him and said, "Let's go and give the medals to the soldiers later!"

"The merit has come down!" It was obvious that he was stunned, and then he showed a look of surprise and excitement.

"Yeah!" Chu An looked at him and nodded.

He exhaled a puff of smoke and said, “The family members are here, but we are still in a state of war. Both battalions of the regiment are on the front line, so the regiment decided to cancel the awarding ceremony.

In addition, the company is not allowed to do this, so as not to upset the family members."

After a pause, Chu An continued, "The regiment's intention is to avoid the families and just give the medals to everyone directly.

As for the celebration party, we will hold it after we return to the base!"

"Okay, okay, I also think it's not appropriate to hold a celebration party now!" Wu Xinmin came over rubbing his hands.

Looking at Chu An, he looked at the red box in front of him.

Chu An knew what he wanted to do by looking at his expression.

"Your medal of honor is also in there, in the lower right corner!"

At the regiment headquarters, Chu An had actually opened the box.

He had seen the meritorious service of everyone in the company. The instructor in front of him was one of the first to enter the battlefield, and he had killed the enemy on the battlefield, so naturally he had a medal of honor.

"Then I'll open it!"

Obviously, he was a little too excited, and even his speech was a little incoherent.

After saying that, without waiting for Chu An to speak, he reached out and opened the box.

What you see are merit boxes.

Chu An saw that his pupils seemed to widen a little.

He was obviously also shocked.

Because when the box was opened, it was filled with boxes of honor. The first box in the first row had the First Class Hero Medal written on it, and the ones next to it also had First Class Merit Medals.

Below are all second-class merit medals.

Only the one in the lower right corner is special.

"I know you will definitely want to get your medal of honor first, so I picked it out for you!" Chu An said lightly while smoking a cigarette.

I didn't ask him to say thank you. Looking at his silly look, he probably didn't even think about saying thank you.

Finally, after a few seconds of hesitation, he picked up the merit box.

"The certificates are all down there!"

Chu An threw away the cigarette butt and stood up.

Reaching out, Chu An took out the first-class hero medals, two first-class merit medals, and a second-class merit medal next to them, then opened the drawer and put them in.

Then, Chu An started to take other merit boxes.

Take them all out and pile them on the table.

Then take out the certificate below.

"Yes, yours!"

Chu An picked up the first third-class merit certificate from a pile of certificates and handed it over without even looking at it.

He only got a third-class merit.

Although he wrote a lot of combat achievements on the application form for merit.

But now is not the time to apply for meritorious service as usual.

Meritorious service in combat, killing the enemy, commanding, and providing decisive strategic and tactical skills during combat are still considered meritorious service.

For example, Chu An’s carpet tactics.

Apart from that, organizing soldiers to establish defense lines, setting up sentries to prevent enemy sneak attacks, and leading the team to capture one or two prisoners during a raid can all be considered part of the job.

It was obvious that after Wu Xinmin took the certificate and took a look at it, he still seemed a little unwilling to give up.

He glanced at Chu An, then began to look at the other certificates one by one.

The first one is the one with second-class merit.

Chu An was a little speechless.

Don’t you really have any idea?

In this battle, many members of Regiment C killed more enemies and were awarded third-class merit.

Although some of them were given to give credit to comrades who died or were injured.

But some people kill more than two people to make a contribution!
For example, the reconnaissance platoon.

After Sanpinshan, the rehabilitated soldiers joined. In the battle at the mine alone, many soldiers may have killed six or seven enemies.

But those who came back without being injured basically only received third-class merit.

There have been too many battles and too many military achievements, so it is still different from some ordinary armed conflicts.

In most cases, you can only get one medal for meritorious service even after participating in multiple battles.

Just like Chu An, he has two first-class merits and one second-class merit, and one of the first-class merits and the second-class merits are not in his own regiment's quota.

That second-class merit was the one that the field hospital requested for Chu An.

There was also another first-class merit awarded by the First Division to the army.

In the regiment, Chu An occupied a first-class merit quota.

Of course, this is not because the group treated Chu An unfairly, but because Chu An took the initiative to give up the credit.

For example, the company deputy Helanshan, even though he was a martyr, would normally have only received the third-class merit this time, but now he has been awarded the second-class merit!

There are also some other comrades.

They died in the war, but now they only receive 500 yuan in pension.

Five hundred!
Even though Deputy Helanshan was a cadre, he only earned fifty yuan more.

Give them some credit, maybe they won't get much more in pension, but at least they can be treated better.

Chu An was not the only one doing this, but many of the living soldiers were doing this.

Soon, Chu An put the certificates and merit boxes away one by one.

Then many of them were put away directly.

These are the soldiers who died or were hospitalized, but whose families have not yet come.

Chu An is going to distribute the rest now.

(End of this chapter)