"The reason why I said that at that time was because I wanted to stimulate your potential, Mr. Zhou. I hope you can perform better in today's test, so that we can allow you to return to Randolph Air Force Academy with honor.
This also shows that the training methods and methods of our Army Academy are indeed the best in the world! "
Major Jeff Hunter has a quick mind and a rather dignified manner. "You will have breakfast with us today, and then perform well in the next test and strive for a good score for me. As long as you can If you perform well, I will personally write a letter to the principal of Randolph Air Force Academy to praise you and train you!"
Major Jeff Hunter's words, "Perform well and get a good grade for me," instantly narrowed the distance between him and Zhou Zhihan, and also eliminated the embarrassment between the two parties due to the excitement.
At Zhou Zhihan's request, Major Jeff Hunter asked squad leader Steven Goode to go to the military supply office and give Zhou Zhihan a new set of clothes, shoes and socks, including a new belt.
Second Lieutenant Jonas Hansen frowned and asked Zhou Zhihan to quickly put on his shorts. He covered it with his hands and stood outside the tent with his neck curled up, like an autumn chicken with few feathers and shivering in the cold wind. .
After breakfast after morning exercises, Zhou Zhihan followed Major Jeff Hunter every step of the way. Some soldiers were envious, while others cast jealous looks.
Zhou Zhihan pretended not to see this. Only mediocre people will not be jealous!
Not being jealous is mediocrity.
After breakfast and an hour's rest, all first-, second-, and third-year cadets gathered at the well-equipped martial arts field at West Point specifically designed to test physical fitness.
All senior students arrived first to warm up in advance and prepare for the physical fitness test.
From north to south, there are a total of 30 test lines, spread out in the east-west direction.
This test consists of 10 individual items.
There is no hard and fast time limit for completing each individual event, but don’t be caught up by those behind you.
Every student has the right to give up temporarily and have a chance to make up the exam.
There are two students from grades 1 to 3 next to each individual event who are responsible for recording the results.
Dozens of instructors walk back and forth on these test lines. As long as a student is found to be cheating, the test scores will immediately become zero and they will be directly expelled. The supervisor and recorder will be punished once and recorded a demerit, which will be included in future promotion assessments.
Therefore, the test for graduating students is very strict.
In order to add a competition mechanism to the test and encourage students to compete in the distance, a group of students will be online every 10 minutes on these 30 test lines. If the students behind them catch up with the students in front with excellent results, they will receive extra points. The scores of the students who were caught up were also set to zero and they will have to take the make-up exam next time.
On the battlefield, what is important is to be one step ahead in order to strike first. On the same route, both sides have similar equipment. If you set off first and are overtaken by the enemy who set off later, there is basically no way to survive.
Therefore, although there is no time limit for each test, because there are other students chasing behind them, this gives every test student a sense of crisis and everyone will go all out.
Once you are caught up by someone behind you, it will be a trivial matter to clear your score and you will still have another chance to make up the exam.
Losing face is a big deal, studying hard for four years, and being overtaken by others at the last critical moment is definitely not a psychological shock.
The individual items tested today are:
One, deadlift;
2. Throw medicine ball from behind while standing;
Three, T-shaped push-ups;
Four, 25-meter sprint, weight-bearing return run, and run with objects;
Five: First do leg curls on the horizontal bar, and then do squats with weights;
6. Climb 4.8-meter obstacles with bare hands, run and jump across trenches, and stand for long jump;
7. Throw the grenade and pull the ammunition box forward;
8. There is a breath-holding device on land. Dig individual soldier bunkers with bare hands and then fill them up quickly;
9. Sit ups and pass through the barbed wire area fifty centimeters above the ground;
10. Weight-bearing, five-kilometer cross-country (this item is not included in the assessment score of zero after being surpassed by the latter).
The passing score for each of these ten tests is 60 points, with a full score of 100.
A total score of 600 is considered passing and meets the graduation standards. A total score of 730 in the ten tests is considered excellent. Those with a score of 800 can enter the next stage of testing.
After everyone has completed the ten tests today, the school will report the results.
The day after tomorrow, students who have scored 800 points or above will participate in a trial held by the Marine Corps to recruit good candidates.
The selection program of the Marine Corps is more stringent. Cadets who can enter the Marine Corps will enter the army after graduation and be awarded the rank of second lieutenant or lieutenant.
In order to be fair and just, the entire graduating class of 1,126 students received the serial number of which group they were about to participate in the competition during their meal.
All serial numbers are drawn out under the supervision of many departments, absolutely fair and impartial, and then issued to each student by the instructors of each class.
Zhou Zhihan, as a transfer student from the Randolph Air Force Academy who was assigned to study physical fitness at the Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy, was placed in the last group.
In the same group with him were dozens of other senior graduating students.
These students were specially selected while maintaining fairness and impartiality. They serve as the back-up test in order to put pressure on the students in front, improve their performance, and prevent some students from slacking off after they think they have passed the exam.
In the end, these dozens of students have a strong competitive spirit and extremely good physical fitness. They don't need to be urged to do their best in the test.
This last group, with so many strong players, is the elite among the elite seniors in the entire school.
It was still for the sake of fairness and justice, so the interval between the last batch of strongest students and the penultimate batch of test students was one minute longer, which was 11 minutes.
Originally, as a first-year student and a transfer student, Zhou Zhihan was not eligible to participate in this graduation class physical fitness test.
Therefore, he can only be arranged at the end, which seems fair. If he is arranged at the front, it will be unfair to other students.
With his size, he won't have any impact on the students in front of him, which is relatively fair.
Major Jeff Hunter, Mr. Don McLean, who specializes in managing freshmen admissions and withdrawals, and Second Lieutenant Jonas Hansen believe that as long as Zhou Zhihan can get an average score of more than 450 in today's test, he will be He could be sent back to Randolph Air Force Academy.
Second Lieutenant Jonas Hansen believed that not arranging Zhou Zhihan to test in the front was also a kind of protection for him. If he was caught up by the students behind him, it would also be a mental blow to him.
After all, today's physical fitness test is tailor-made for fourth-year graduates. If Zhou Zhihan had to reach the passing mark of 600 points, that would be unfair, unreasonable, and unjust.
Therefore, Zhou Zhihan, as an insignificant pawn, was placed at the end.
An hour and a half later, when he heard someone calling his name, Zhou Zhihan and more than 30 other graduating students stood on their respective test lines, preparing for the first test-deadlift.
This test mainly simulates soldiers carrying ammunition boxes, rescuing injured comrades, supplying comrades or transporting other important equipment in a real battlefield environment, which all require a strong physique as a foundation.
After the on-site instructor said "start", the last group of students began their physical fitness test.
